Welcome to Room 19! - School District of Whitefish Bay
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About Me
• September 13- First
Half Marathon
• October 4- My Brother’s
Wedding!
I believe learning begins once a community is built.
Expectations of class, students, and teacher
Caring members and teacher
Responsibility
• Individual roles within the community
• Students take ownership of their own
education
• Follow the routines
Once a safe space is built, students will be able to:
Take risks within the classroom
Enjoy learning by using their curiosity and critical
thinking skills.
I am committed to...
Fostering the love of livelong learning in each student.
Bringing fun and student interest into curriculum
Encouraging curiosity and critical thinking.
Asking deeper questions and bringing in real world connections
Instilling the importance of responsibility as a fifth grade student and
community member inside and outside of school.
Classroom responsibilities, assignment notebooks, etc.
Building strong students academically, socially, and emotionally.
I will make sure that my lessons reach each child through differentiation
Reinforce the importance of community in a learning environment
I will ensure that my students feel safe and comfortable in room 19
Developing Responsibility
What do I expect of each child?
Follow social contract/expectations
Use the assignment notebook properly
Completed work that is on time. Homework means
something!
Bring necessary materials to and from school and to and
from other classrooms
Ask questions…but think before!
Taking responsibility of own education- communicating
what he or she needs
Communication
Assignment Notebooks:
Students are responsible for filling these out every day
Good preparation for 6th grade
Cumberland Website—
Wfbschools.com Cumberland 5th Grade Home
Available by phone or email
[email protected] (on website)
414-963-3943 x2019
Weekly Newsletter via email and Hard Copy
All teachers are included in this newsletter
Communication
Each student will receive graded work on a timely basis
Parents are to sign and return graded work
This will keep you updated on student progress and to
stay in communication with myself.
The Fifth Grade Team
Ms. Sarnowski, Ms. McCormick, Mr. Moore,
Ms. Castleberry, and Ms. Gritzmacher
Team Philosophy
Common planning time
Sharing of ideas
Problem Solving/Brainstorming
Similar goals—
Success of all of our students
Meeting the Common Core Standards
Instilling the importance of responsibility
Preparation for 6th grade
ELA Curriculum
Common Core State Standards
English Language Arts: Reading
Anthology Stories (Scott Foresman)
Vocabulary and Comprehension
Novel Reading/Independent Book/Stations
Response journals, “Reading Notebooks”
Engaged reading (independent, group, guided)
Collaboration and discussion with peers
Work with Mosaic comprehension strategies
Various genres
ELA Curriculum
Common Core State Standards
Reading
Our objective is to build strong skills and strategies
Reading Comprehension
Identifying theme, defending thinking with evidence from
text
Making connections, questioning, visualizing, inferring,
determining importance, synthesizing
Central Skills
Point of view, author’s purpose, author’s viewpoint, cause
and effect, character, plot, compare and contrast,
vocabulary development
Assessments for Reading
Comprehension Test- Multiple Choice and ShortAnswer
Beginning-of-Year and End-of-Year Assessments and
Unit Assessments
Anthology Stories- Read in school, reread at school or
home, selection test
Assessment of Written Responses/Response Journals
Fluency—Assessed up to 4 times a year. Words correct
read per minute using grade-level passages that student
has not seen before
ELA Curriculum
Common Core State Standards
Language Arts: Lucy Calkins Writing Curriculum
Multiple Formal Writing Pieces
Completed in school, one-two per trimester
Personal Narrative, Informational Writing: Compare and
Contrast, Biography and Opinion: Persuasive
Other Writing Pieces
Ongoing shorter pieces of writing
Reader’s Response Journals
Memoirs
Poetry
ELA Curriculum
Common Core State Standards
Skill Focus
Generating ideas, elaborating ideas, vivid word choice,
descriptive language, interesting/effective introductions,
satisfying conclusions, purposeful paragraphs,
transitions, and editing
Grammar Focus
Complete sentences—subject and predicate, run-on
sentences
Subject-verb agreement, commas, punctuation in
dialogue, apostrophes/possessive nouns
Math Curriculum
Common Core State Standards
Math Expressions by Houghton Mifflin
“Supports the Common Core State Standards by
covering select concepts for deeper mastery...”
“Research-based, proven to be effective in raising
student achievement...”
“Offers new ways to teach and learn mathematics
through exploration, modeling and discussion...”
Math Curriculum
Common Core State Standards
Students will be able to...
Construct a deeper understanding of math skills
Defend and communicate understanding using words,
numbers, symbols (written and spoken)
Continue to build critical thinking skills
Strengthen fluency with math facts
Math Curriculum
Common Core State Standards
Differentiation
Pretesting to assess and plan for each student’s needs
Frequent, ongoing assessments after each lesson
Computer-based, multi-level practice, challenge questions and
intervention resources
Daily homework and remembering workbook
FYI there is no “home textbook” students are to take home
activity book if they feel they need it to do their homework.
Check Links on my homepage!
Science Curriculum
Next Generation Science Standards
FOSS: Develop Inquiry Skills
1. Living Systems
Analyze everyday systems and subsystems.
Analyze food chains and food webs as a way to study the
biosphere.
Make and analyze a worm habitat as a decomposition system.
Investigate nutrient-getting systems of yeast, plants, and
animals, including humans.
Investigate and model transport systems in plants and
animals.
Investigate sensory systems in animals.
Science Curriculum
2. Sun, Moon, and Planets
Observe and compare shadows during a school day.
Relate the position of the Sun in the sky to the size and
orientation of an object's shadow.
Use physical models to explain day and night.
Record observations of the night sky.
Observe and record changes in the Moon's appearance every
day for a month.
Analyze data to discover the sequence of changes that occur
during the Moon's phase cycle.
Make and interpret a model of the Earth, Moon, and Sun
system.
Classify planets by their properties.
Record and display the organization of the solar system
graphically.
Identify several constellations as stable, predictable patterns of
stars.
Use models to build explanations.
Social Studies Curriculum
Emphasis on American History from the early arrivals
during the Ice Age, to modern times.
Geography is embedded throughout the text.
Highly collaborative and interactive
Online Access
Eduplace.com/eservices
Karagritzmacher
123456
Standards-Based Grading
Grading –Three point system
3, 2, 1 Evaluative and Formative Assessment
3 = Proficient-can apply skill or concept
correctly/independently
2= Developing-making progress towards grade level standard
1= Beginning-cannot complete task independently/shows little
understanding of concept or skill
+, , - Formative Assessment- Feedback purposes for teacher
and/ or student
+ = 3 , = 2, - = 1
Grading is aligned with the standards
Teachers work together to norm our grading practices
Exemplary work is noted through comments
Typically numbered grades indicate that a grade is in the
grade book and a check, plus or minus indicates that the
grade is for feedback purposes only and not entered in the
gradebook
Curriculum Overlap
Life Skills
Human Growth
and
Development
Guidance
Lessons
Life Skills Curriculum
Self esteem
Build social
skills
Communicate
feelings
effectively
Cope with stress
Analyze
decision-making
strategies
Learn harms of
tobacco use
Examine
advertising
techniques
Guidance Lessons: Ms. Anstett
Self esteem
Build social
skills
Communicate
feelings
effectively
Cope with stress
Analyze
decision-making
strategies
Conflict
resolution
Career Planning
Human Growth and Development
Adolescence and
Puberty
Self-Esteem
Conception
Physical Abuse
and Safety
Analyze
decision-making
strategies
Male and
Female
Reproduction
Systems
AIDS
Miscellaneous
Buddy Classes
Band/Orchestra:
Once a week class lessons, twice a week grade level lessons
Student Council: Monthly, lunch and lunch recess meetings
Project Wisdom, weekly
Announcements on character building read by 5th grade
students over the PA system
Room Parents: Kris McKinney and Crystal McClain
Reminders
Field trips- Kindness Retreat, Discovery World, First
Stage
Enter through front door and pick up visitor badge.
No birthday treats, please.