WELCOME TO CURRICULUM NIGHT!

Please fill in the orange Room Parent/PTSA distribution list on the back table.

Then make your way to your child’s desk, there is a letter waiting for you. This is your first Family Letter, take a moment to write a note back to your 5th Grader.

You can also find a Homework Brochure and Volunteer Opportunities on the desks. If you are interested in volunteering this year, please be sure to fill out a volunteer background check form, which can be found on the back table.

Thanks for coming tonight

Teaching Philosophy• Curiosity in Learning

– Academics and Eachother

– Students Working Together

• Engagement through authentic and purposeful lessons

– Entertaining and Useful Info.

– Motivation

• High Expectations for All: Risks with Support

- Achievable Challenges to feel SUCCESS

- O.K. to make mistakes

““I hear and I forget. I hear and I forget. I see and I may remember. I see and I may remember. I do and I will understand.” I do and I will understand.”

Not a Sage

on a StageA Guide

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Big 5th Grade Goals

• Create a positive atmosphere where all students can succeed

• Engage students in a challenging curriculum

• Prepare students for middle school

• Continue to develop a sense of responsibility and independence in each student

Schedules

Specialist Week A Week B

Monday Music PE

Tuesday Art Library

Wednesday PE Music

Thursday Music PE

Snack time will be provided on Mondays, Thursdays, and Fridays.Please only send easy to eat, healthy, and non-messy finger foods.

8:30 – School Starts

11:20 -12:00 – Lunch/Recess1:10 – 1:30 – Recess

2:55 - Dismissal

8:30 – School Starts

11 -11:40 – Lunch/Recess

2:55 - Dismissal

CLASSROOM MANAGEMENT & PROCEDURES• A New Character Trait/Value each month… Tools to Reach the Summit

- Ongoing discussions - Scouts, Team Points, Charts, Classroom Guidelines• Classroom Jobs: Boynton Bucks, Coupons• Steps to managing misbehavior:

1. Redirection through proximity or question, Take A Break Table 2. Monitoring their own behavior – Solving their own problem3. Parent, Teacher, Student meeting4. Principal Meeting

Goals for the student:– Learn from his/her problem– Take Responsibility– Make a decision/plan– Solve the problem so it doesn’t make a problem for others

• Binder – The 3 ring binder contains homework, completed work, running

assignments, communication from school, etc. It should go between home and school each day.

• Planner – kept inside the binder -Assignments are written in by students at the end of each day.

-Unless there is an issue, an everyday signature on the planner is not required. You may continue this routine if you feel it is effective for your child.

-Reading log – daily or weekly initials, checked on Friday-Planner management is the responsibility of the student, not

the parent

CLASSROOM MANAGEMENT & PROCEDURES continued

5TH GRADE CURRICULUMWriting• Integrated in all curriculum areas• Writing Workshop – focused lessons with student driven/selected topics

– Lucy Caulkins Units of Study – Narrative, Informational, Opinion– The writing process: pre-write, draft, revise, edit, publish– Grammar: editing skills, capitalization, punctuation, spelling, usage, etc…– Vocabulary: Strategies to learn and remember words– Conferring: on-going check-ins, individualized goal setting– Mentor Texts – students try out different ways of writing

Reading• Read Aloud -> Shared Reading -> Guided Reading -> I.R.

– Gradual release of responsibility, from teacher directed to student centered activities

– Making Meaning – skills and strategies introduced through read alouds, then students practice in their choice of good fit books

• Good Fit Books– Students exercise choice while considering… Why am I reading this? Does it

interest me? Do I understand it? Do I know most of the words?• The Genre Wheel and Independent Reading

– This year, students should choose and explore new genres and respond to them in different ways. Let’s look at the Genre Wheel instructions inside the binder.

5TH GRADE CURRICULUM

Math – Everyday Mathematics•Everyday Mathematics

-a hands-on problem solving approach that builds interest and connects to their experiences-spiral curriculum: revisits concepts regularly, mastery over time-frequent practice of basic skills, often through games-lesson based on activity and discussion, not text book

Student Math Journal – to record and demonstrate learning

Student Reference Book-explaining strategies both verbally and in writing: math log in

binder

-Number Theory, estimation, geometry, division, fractions, decimals, exponents, more fractions, area, coordinates, volume, using data

•Supplemental Curriculum: Excel, Xtra math, IXLChanges to Everyday Math to align with Common Core Standards– Some lessons have been removed– Increased focus on problem solving– Before: Spiral, wide and shallow– Now: Narrow and deeper

Science•LIFE SCIENCE:

–Plant Investigations (planning experiments, structures needed for survival)–Heredity and Adaptations (inherited and acquired characteristics affect survival)

•PHYSICAL SCIENCE:–Force and Motion / Alarm Circuits (transfer of energy)

•EARTH AND SPACE SCIENCE:–Fossils (clues to earth’s past)

Supplemental Learning: Science To Go, Science Fair

Health•FLASH (Family Life and Sexual Health)•Develop healthy habits, emergency preparedness, stress management, peer pressure

Social Studies•Geography/Map Skills•Explorers and Colonization•Revolutionary War

5TH GRADE CURRICULUM

HOMEWORK/ASSESSMENT• Regular Assignments: Study Links, Reading 20-30 min, Family

Letter (every other week or so), occasional writing work• School policy: around 50 minutes/night in 5th grade• 4-point rubric for scoring papers, projects, report cards• Report Cards – currently being altered and reformatted

-comments are given for a score of 2 or 1-Trimester One Report Cards are sent home Nov. 27th

• Smarter Balance Assessments- Third Trimester -Literacy and Math

-aligns with Common Core State Standards-The MSP Science test will be kept the same-Stanford Achievement Test – February

• Reading and Math• Scores compared to other 5th Graders nationally who take it at the

same time of the year• Conferences: Dec 3rd and 4th (no school for students)

- Students are asked to attend in 5th grade- Conferences are not held during the second or third trimester- There is a new way to sign up this year online – more to come later!

PARENT/SCHOOL COMMUNICATION

• Binder comes back and forth daily

• Mr. Boynton’s News Letters – sent over email, connect site – link on school website

• Every other week - Family Letters from the students. Parent Response letter due following week

• Frequent school/community information (back of binder in “Take Home/Leave Home section)

• It is ok to call, send email, send notes

• boyntons@issaquah.wednet.edu(425) 837-7292Connect Website = Mr. Boynton’s 5th Grade Site

End of the Year–PROMOTION & PICNIC DAY will be similar to last year. The two events will occur on one day. Promotion will be in the morning, followed by Picnic Day. Promotion will be an event allowing students to say “good-bye and thank you” to parents and their school. Picnic Day will be a fun-filled afternoon where they can spend time with their classmates for the last time! This means, that informal picnic day attire should be worn to the Promotion Celebration in the morning.

–Please do not schedule vacations for the days following the last day of school until after we are past possible snow days.

–We tend to have snow make up days and your child may miss Promotion and Picnic Day if they are not here the last couple days of school .

Camp Warm Beach

• October 8th – 10th • Camp meeting tonight immediately

after Curriculum Night to discuss the details

• Thanks to those of you who are coming along with us!

VOLUNTEERS

Check out the Yellow Sign up Form on your desk

• Room Parents: attend room parent info night, help organize two class celebrations, classroom/PTA liaison

• Art Parent: Every other Tuesday from 9:45-10:45• Library Parent: Every other Tuesday from 9:45-10:45• Friday Friend: copies, check homework, book orders, assemble

projects, other odds and ends (in staff workroom)• Reading Helper: In class – give students practice with their fluency

and comprehension skillsSpecial Events• Photographer: Take photos during celebrations or special events• Pillow Sewing Project: have a sewing machine, can sew or just want

to help – in October after camp• Pure Foods Nutrition Lesson: chop, distribute supplies – January• Picnic/Promotion: Are you interested in being a chairperson?

To sum it up… here are my main objectives

• Provide a safe environment for students to learn.• Help students learn the 5th grade curriculum.• Practice social skills 5th graders can use in their

lives.• Support my fifth graders and support their

families.• I am your child’s advocate here at school.

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OTHER QUESTIONS?

Thanks again for coming!

Please head on down to the MPR forthe camp meeting