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Welcome to 5 th Grade!

Welcome to 5 th Grade!. Mrs. Shelly Bornfleth Back-to-School Night August 29, 2013. “Perfection is not attainable. But if we chase perfection, we can catch excellence.” -Vince Lombardi. “If we teach today’s students as we taught yesterday’s, we rob them of tomorrow.” John Dewey. Common Core.

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Welcome to 5 th Grade!

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  1. Welcome to 5th Grade! • Mrs. Shelly Bornfleth • Back-to-School Night • August 29, 2013

  2. “Perfectionis not attainable.But if wechase perfection,we can catch excellence.”-Vince Lombardi

  3. “If we teach today’s students as wetaught yesterday’s,we rob themof tomorrow.”John Dewey

  4. Common Core • www.corestandards.org • Focused on 21st century skills • ELA-balance literature with informational text, narrative with informational writing, support with evidence • Math-explaining thinking, real life application • It means critically analyzing what we teach and how we assess students to improve an already rich and engaging curriculum!

  5. “Students don’t carehow much you knowuntil they knowhow much you care.”Anonymous

  6. Responsive Classroom • A learning community with high social and academic goals –“learning to care, caring to learn” • Classroom organization • Morning meeting • Rules and logical consequences

  7. Give a man a fish and you feed him for a day. Teach a man to fish and you feed him for a lifetime.Chinese Proverb

  8. “Continuous effort -not strength or intelligence -is the key to unlocking our potential.”Winston Churchill

  9. 5th Grade Curriculum • ReadingInformational text, using evidence, lit circles, core literature, reading/writing workshop, skills • WritingExpository, persuasive, narrative • MathPowers of 10, operations with multi-digit whole numbers and with decimals to hundredths, fractions, geometry • ScienceScientific method, Earth – weather, the water cycle and the solar system, physical – elements and compounds, life – structures of living things • Social Studies50 states, first Americans, explorers, colonization, the American Revolution and government

  10. 5th Grade Field Trips • Life at Sea October 10@ Rheem – Thank you parent volunteers! • Balclutha/Hyde Street PierWed. Oct. 22-Thurs. Oct 23@Hyde Street Pier • Martinez CourthouseFebruary 11 • Colonial Day & Walk Through the American RevolutionMarch 25 • Headlands Institute – “Science Camp”April 17-18 • ***NOTE: Volunteer clearance needed!

  11. Homework • Daily - independent practice related to that day’s learning in class • Each day we take time in class to write assignments from the board into Weekly Agendas. • Read 20 minutes every night • Spelling/Vocabulary Weekly - Test Friday • 35-60 minutes per day • Parental support – 10%

  12. Communication • Weekly Homework Agenda***** • Binders • email list for updates about classroom topics • By phone/voicemail, note or appointment

  13. Parent’s Job • Initial Weekly Homework Agenda nightly • Go over papers in Friday Folder, SIGN Weekly Homework Agenda and return with empty folder on Monday. • Advocate for your child • Ask questions • Communicate the little things before they become big things

  14. “I have nospecial talents.I am onlypassionately curious.”Albert Einstein

  15. “Everybody is a genius. But if you judge a fish by its ability to climb a tree, it will live its whole life believing that it is stupid.”Albert Einstein

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