Ms. Sarah Pethan St. Bernard School Room 5 2019-2020 Meet Mrs. - - PowerPoint PPT Presentation

• St. Bernard School Room 5

2019-2020

• Ms. Sarah Pethan

Meet Mrs. Pethan

❂ I have been teaching at St. Bernard School for 16 years and a member of St.

Bernard Parish for 19 years.

❂ My two children, Nick and Zach, graduated from St. Bernard and Notre Dame

• Academy. Nick is a pilot studying at UW-Green Bay and flight instructing at CAVU

Flight Academy. Zach is in his third year in the College of Engineering at UW-Madison

❂ I LOVE cats, football, baseball, airplanes, the beach, and traveling. ❂ I feel I am a coach in the classroom rather than a teacher. We are a team working

together to grow academically, socially, and with God. I am a proud recipient of a Golden Apple Award.

⤷ Nick ↡

My cat Lucy Zach

⇮ ↝ Me in Paris

at Notre Dame

Email: spethan@gracesystem.org Phone: (920) 468-5026 ext 205 Send a note to school

How to contact

• Mrs. Pethan

What’s Happening in Room 5…

• A unique learning and teaching

experience

• A family of learners
• Builds experience and utilizes skills

in teamwork, responsibility, and collaboration

Welcome to Multi-Age!

1

SMART Seats Students…

• choose a space that is best for them
• have choices to mix it up during the day
• learn to be responsible and use space

appropriately

That’s why!

2

Research Outside the windows of our classroom is a dynamic, fast-paced, and ever-changing world full of choices. How can we expect our students to solve problems and make choices independently if we constantly solve their problems and make their choices for them? Our classroom environments should be conducive to open collaboration, communication, creativity, and critical thinking. (Edutopia April 2016)

3

Choices Students have over 40 choices

• f seats. The options include

sitting in a chair, sitting on a floor pillow, sitting on a wobble seat, standing at a table, lap boards, adirondack chairs, belly boards, and benches. Really, the students pick their seat?

FLEXIBLE SEATING….

Communication Arts

Reading, Writing, Speaking, Phonics. and Spelling

Math

Guided math groups

Faith

Learning and growing with Jesus

Science or Social Studies

STEM-Project Lead the Way, current events, and learning about the community

What do we do all day?

But really we just ask questions all day long ….

Why? How do you know that? What are you thinking about? Who can help with this? Turn and talk! What does that mean? Where can you look to find out about that? What is the next step? How can you solve that problem? Qu’est-ce que c’est? What do you need to fi figure that out? Que tiempo hace hoy? What choice did you make? What would Jesus do? What can you do to fi

fix that?

Students have access to tablets, desktop computers, and a Smart Board. We use them daily in instruction, math, science, and reading.

Technology

HO,e Homework

• Read 20 minutes 5 days a week and

record on the reading log sheet

• Book reports attached to the reading

log sheet

• Math homework page a few times a

week

• Language Arts homework page once

a week

• Practice spelling words
• Practice math facts to 20

Please return all homework by the due date!

❏ All grades are posted in Power School ❏ Grades are shown on the work as smiley faces, points, or a rubric ❏ Homework is weighted less than classwork, projects, and tests ❏ Students earn S+, S, and S-

• grades. S+ is above expectations,

S is meeting expectations, and S- is below expectations.

Grading:

Homework and Grading

Paw Pride CHAMPs Classroom Expectations

BE ATTITUDES Be Like Jesus!

💘 Be Respectful ✅ Be Responsible ✋ Be Safe ♱ Be Peaceful

CHAMPs

• Each classroom activity has

CHAMPs expectations.

• Students are reminded of

expectations in order to be successful

• Expectations are posted clearly

in the classroom

Students are held accountable for their behaviors based on these expectations

Thank you for viewing!

Please contact me with any questions or feedback!