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Welcome to Back to School Night Stafford Intermediate 2016-2017 Team 5G & 5H Mrs. Deren, Mrs. McAvoy, Ms. Koch & Mrs. Tyson

A Year at a Glance Parties Birthdays ● ● Website - invitation coming soon! ○ We love to celebrate birthdays! Please ○ Halloween ○ feel free to send in a treat in the Winter ○ morning, so we can plan accordingly that End of the Year ○ day. Prior arrangements do not need to Sign up on the back table if you wish ○ be made. Field Trips ● Communication ● Manahawkin Walking Tour ○ The best way to reach us is by email. ○ Historic Philadelphia ○ Please remind your child to deliver all ○ PG Movies ● written notes first thing in the morning. Please sign permission slip on your child’s ○ Do not use the For Home Folder or graded ○ desk. Place it in our mailbox when you work as a means of communication. leave. Thanks!

Classroom Procedures Agenda For Home Folder ● ● Students are expected to copy homework. Contains graded work & district news ○ ○ Homework is posted in both classrooms. Will be sent home weekly ○ ○ Responsibility is on the student. Sign & return parent signature page ○ ○ Absences Sign & return stamped papers ● ○ Please do not use this procedure as a ○ Students are responsible to make up the ○ form of communication. work that was missed. One day absent = one day to make it up ○ Your child will receive a “While You Were ○ Out” sheet in his/her mailbox upon return. Contact the main office before 11am for ○ homework requests.

Assessment District Grading Policy (Grades 4-6) Genesis Parent Portal ● ● Homework - 10% Grades now available online ○ ○ Class work (formative assessment) - 25% Report cards online only ○ ○ Minor assessments (quizzes) - 25% Google Classroom ○ ● Major assessments (tests, projects) - 40% ○ Window into your child’s paperless ○ classroom. Ask your child to show you what ○ they are working on daily. Please look, but do not touch! ○

Digital Citizenship Chromebooks Google Classroom ● ● 1 to 1 technology A window into your child’s ○ ○ Your child has made a (somewhat) paperless ○ promise to be a responsible classroom. digital citizen. This includes Ask your child to show you ○ using our devices safely his/her work in progress. and responsibly. Look but please don’t touch! ○ Don’t worry… we haven’t ○ done away with the paper/pencil approach completely!

Math Critical Areas Resources ● ● Fluency with whole numbers Workbook ○ ○ Notebook *** should come home ○ and decimals every night for use with homework Operations with fractions ○ page Geometry and measurement ○ On-line component ○ Assessment ● Class work (includes participation) ○ Homework ○ Quizzes ○ Tests ○ Projects ○

ELA Schoolwide Program Workshop Model Our district language arts program includes a Teacher model ● ● balanced literacy approach using the Schoolwide Guided reading ● program materials in a Readers’ and Writers’ Independent reading ● Workshop format. Teacher/ student conference ● Assessments Additional Resources: ● Student notebooks ○ Formative ● Teacher created materials ○ Summative ● Achieve 3000 (nonfiction lexile leveling) ○ Zing (on-line library) ** coming soon ○ Literably *** coming soon ○ Classroom library ○

ELA Units of Study Reading Writing Launching How writers work ● ● Fiction Memoir ● ● Nonfiction Biography ● ● Science: ecosystems (human impact) Essay ● ●

Science STEAM Lab - Science~Technology~Engineering~Arts~Mathematics ● Topics of Study ● Assessments Weather ○ Classwork (includes ● Force and Motion ○ participation) Matter / Elements ○ Quizzes / Tests ● M.A.R.E. ○ Projects and group work ●

Social Studies Topics of Study Resources World and US Geography Text book ● ● Three Worlds Meet In-class notes ● ● Colonization and Settlement Supplemental materials ● ● Revolution and a New Nation Achieve 3000 ● ● Service Learning & Civic Responsibility ● Assessments Classwork (includes participation) ● Quizzes / Tests ● Projects and group work ●

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Wish List ● Lysol or Clorox Wipes (Yellow only - thanks!) ● Tissues ● Prize Box Items Thank you to all the parents who already donated!

Contact Information Mrs. Kristi Deren Nurse e e c c f f i i f f O O n n i i a a M M kderen@staffordschools.org 978-5700 0 0 7 978 -5700 ext. 1153 5 - 8 ext. 1074 7 9 6 6 0 1 . t x e Mrs. Laurie McAvoy lmcavoy@staffordschools.org 978-5700 ext. 1117 Ms. Nancy Koch nkoch@staffordschools.org 978- 5700 ext. 1114

Thank you for coming! We are looking forward to a fun-filled, successful year!