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Join us for Equinox’s Curriculum Night, where we introduce our vibrant classroom community of 84 learners. Discover the Responsive Classroom approach, emphasizing the importance of social and academic skills. Learn about our curriculum overview, which includes balanced literacy and inquiry-based science. Engage with our dedicated teachers and support staff, including paraeducators and specialists. Explore parent communication tools, volunteer opportunities, and how families can partner in education. Your involvement is crucial for your child’s success!
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Curriculum Night 2010 • Introduction to our Classroom Community • Responsive Classroom • Curriculum Overview • Parent Communication • Volunteering • Questions? • Ticket Out
Who is Equinox? • 84 Vibrant Learners • Classroom Teachers • TA • Paraeducators • Case Manager • Speech & Language Pathologist • Guidance • Related Arts Teachers • Classroom Volunteers • FAMILIES!
Responsive Classroom * The social curriculum is as important as the academic curriculum. * How children learn is as important as what they learn: Process and content go hand in hand. * The greatest cognitive growth occurs through social interaction. * To be successful academically and socially, children need a set of social skills: cooperation, assertion, responsibility, empathy, and self-control. * Knowing the children we teach-individually, culturally, and developmentally-is as important as knowing the content we teach. * Knowing the families of the children we teach and working with them as partners is essential to children's education. * How the adults at school work together is as important as their individual competence: Lasting change begins with the adult community. From the Northeast Foundation for Children’s Responsive Classroom Guiding Principles
What is special about 3rd & 4th graders? Adapted from Yardsticks by Chip Wood
To be successful academically and socially, children need a set of social skills: cooperation, assertion, responsibility, empathy, and self-control. • School & Classroom rules • Student Entry/Dismissal • Logical Consequences • Student Work Expectations
Balanced Literacy Instruction • Independent Reading • Guided Reading • Shared Reading • Word Study/Spelling/Fundations • Handwriting • Read Aloud • Independent Writing • Guided Writing • Shared Writing
Themes2010-2011 • Community Building • Weekly Inquiry Science • VT Government/Election • VT Geography & History • Systems of the Human Body • United States Geography/Geology • Earth & Environment (Landforms & Earth Materials)
Math instruction is aligned with Best Practices in Teaching Mathematics Number Sense Operations Computational Fluency Data and chance Patterns Geometry Measurement Mathematics
Homework Math connected to your child’s program Spelling practice 20 minutes of reading each night Reading Log due weekly
Home-School Communication • Weekly Update • Monday Folders • Progress Report Conferences • E-mail & Phone • Website & Blogs
Important Messages • Please contact our TA, Amanda DeCarlo at ext. 5814 with any urgent messages (dismissal changes, etc.) • If you cannot reach Amanda, please call Carmen Portelli at ext. 5805
Volunteering • Contact your core teacher for in-class Volunteer Opportunities • School Wide/Equinox House Activities • Field Trip Chaperones • FAP = Families as Partners • Equinox FAP Representative to the Advisory Council needs to be elected via ballot
QUESTIONS? COMMENTS?
Ticket Out On a small piece of colored paper, please write ONE thing you learned about Equinox! Thank you for coming tonight!
