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The PTO is looking for volunteers to help out during the school year!

• Yearbook
• School events (Sign Up Genius)
• Go Speedy Go (info went home on Friday)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KER6qdcQBr8

• Write any questions you have on the index card provided
• Be sure to include your name and email address
• Please hand them to me before you leave

• Sixth year teaching 5th grade at Cerritos
• Was a Kyrene student
• Graduated from ASU with a degree in Elementary Education

and a minor in English Linguistics (Go Sun Devils!)

• Lifelong learner who loves being enthusiastic about teaching

• Email: Lwontor@kyrene.org
• Phone: 480-541-2372
• The Wontor Weekly email update (Mondays)
• Teacher webpage (www.kyrene.org/lwontor)

• Lunch: 11:10-11:30
• Recess: 11:30-11:50
• Monday - Art (8:00-8:45)
• Tuesday – P.E. (8:00-8:45)
• Wednesday – Computer Lab or MakerSpace (8:00-8:45)
• Thursday – Music (8:00-8:45)
• Friday – Library (8:00-8:45)

• Check for homework (front pocket) and flyers (back pocket) each

evening in white binder

• Sign your child’s agenda (behavior box) every night
• Transportation – If there is ever a change in the normal routine,

please let me/the office know (the office after noon)

• Listserv – follow the link on the Cerritos Home Page to sign up for

school and district communication sent electronically

• The 7 Habits of Happy Kids
• C.A.R.E.S.
• Wildly Important Goals (WIGS)
• Mission Statements

• A way of staying in communication with you about your child’s

activities at school

• A stamp indicates good behavior and work habits that promote

learning throughout the day

• A letter will reflect citizenship, or study habits that may need some

improvement

• The letter written will correspond with the rule listed on the bright

pink paper in the page protector

• Please initial every day within the behavior box, so I can see that we

have communicated

Coo Cooperation

Raise your hand when you have something to say Minimize disruptions during learning (getting out of seat, having side conversations, etc.) Use an appropriate voice level Synergize with others and deal peacefully with disagreements

Acc Accountabil ility

Come prepared with materials daily (homework, agenda, etc.) Stay on task and engaged in your learning Take responsibility for your actions Complete work on time

Res espect

Respect your classmates and your teacher Respect all other people in the building Respect materials by using them as tools, not toys Show kindness in and out of the classroom

Ex Excell llence

Try your personal best and give 100% effort Be an active listener and participate in class Follow directions the first time Use manners and be an awesome role model

Sa Safety

Keep your desk and work materials neat Push in your chair Keep hands, feet, and objects to yourself Walk quietly and appropriately in the hallway

• Mutual Respect
• Accepting Responsibility and Natural Consequences
• Positive Recognition

C.A.R.E.S. Slips, Parent Contact, Celebrations

• Negative Consequences

Behavior Calendar, Behavior Reflection, Parent Contact

Nig ightly ly

• Agenda signed
• Math
• Read 30 minutes
• Reading prompt (due Fri.)

As s assig igned

• ELA
• Social studies & science
• Projects

#1 place to look: your child’s agenda #2 place to look:

• n the homework page
• f my website

(as updated as possible)

• Agenda signed every night—even Fridays
• Neat & completed with effort
• Completed independently (assistance is encouraged once initial attempt has

been made, but students should use resources to help first)

• Should not take longer than 45 minutes (excluding projects and studying)
• Missing/incomplete work must be made up on student’s time (one day

given per day absent)

• Homework is not tracked in the online gradebook—I will email you if I

notice a pattern of incomplete/missing homework

• Read 25 books over the course of the school year
• Some specific genres and others are free choice
• Books must be 75 pages minimum (except 1 picture book)
• Books 250+ pages in length count as 2 books
• Students must give 1 book talk each quarter to their classmates
• Books read aloud to the class by Miss Wontor count (plan on 4)
• Have a prompt to respond to each week (due Friday) in composition book
• More information was sent home on a blue piece of paper on Monday

(should be in your child’s take-home binder)

• Students will have one day (for each day they are

absent) to make up work.

• Getting & completing the work from the “Absent Work”

file is the student’s responsibility

• Email me ahead of time and I will gather any work that I

can to send with your child

• Agenda

Tabs: Math, Social Studies, Science

• Front pocket: Homework
• Back pocket: Keep at Home (flyers, etc.)

• Math

Friday check-ins and focus tests

• Social Studies/Science

Quizzes and tests per unit (day varies) Projects

• Reading

Quizzes and assessment (day varies)

• Writing

Written work graded by rubric (day varies)

Students will receive a letter grade for each subject on their report card. Parents and students are highly encouraged to check grades online once a

• week. (via the Kyrene website)
• 90-100 = A
• 80-89 = B
• 70-79 = C
• 60-69 = D
• 59 and lower = F

All students have their own leadership notebook

• Track individual progress on assessments and goals
• Students take ownership and pride in their progress and learning
• Tabs: Missions, Goals, Data, 7 Habits, Victories

Class Data Wall

• Track class progress toward goals (WIGS and WOWS)

Every child is unique and has a different learning style

• I believe in meeting each

child’s learning needs by guiding them toward individual growth

• Instructional Focus

Groups (IFG) in reading and math to focus on specific skills, remediation and/or enrichment

Focus Units:

• Place Value with Decimal Fractions
• Multiplication & Division Strategies
• Addition & Subtraction of Decimal

Fractions

• Multiplication & Division of

Fractions

• Multiplication & Division of Decimals
• Addition & Multiplication with Volume

and area

• Classifying & Measuring 2D Geometric

Figures

• Geometry & the Coordinate Plane

• Students move fluidly between

reading, writing, speaking and listening, and language activities

• Through these activities students

continue to build background knowledge, with an increasing emphasis on individual and small group interaction with complex text 9 units:

• Personal Narratives
• Early American Civilizations
• Poetry
• Adventures of Don Quixote
• The Renaissance
• The Reformation
• A Midsummer Night’s Dream
• Native Americans
• Chemical Matter

• Our Nation’s Geography
• Native Americans
• European Exploration
• Colonization
• The American Revolution
• The Constitution &

Government

• The Civil War
• Reconstruction

• Biomes
• Earth, Space and Planets
• Physical & Chemical

Properties of Matter

• Body Systems
• Human Growth and

Development

• Force and Motion

(Simple Machines)

• Computer Lab
• Kahoot
• Google Classroom
• Internet
• Laptops
• Smart board

Donations throughout the year are much appreciated! Will be communicated via email or agenda

• Run by Mrs. Martin, our P.E. teacher
• Class Playworks time once per month (Wednesday, 9:30-10:00)
• Topics: Inclusion, Healthy Play, Respect, Cooperation
• Junior Coach opportunity for 5th graders

• Please do not send birthday invitations to school
• Special treats or snacks for birthdays or other
• ccasions are not allowed for the class other than

during a classroom party

• We play Birthday Bingo and celebrate as a class 

• Volunteering in fifth grade is on an “as needed”

basis

• I will email you as needed– at home project or

in-class opportunities

• Sign Up Genius may be used too

• Please take a minute and write a note to your child
• n the pink sticky note if you haven’t already
• Give index cards with questions to me as you leave