Welcome!

Find your student’s desk

Please wear the nametag at your student’s desk. It should have HIS OR HER NAME on it.

Read the welcome letter he or she left you!

Browse through the materials and look around the room.

We will begin shortly! Enjoy your night!

Welcome Room 21 Parents!

Back to School Night

Miss Siringano and Miss Atkinson

2013-2014

Miss Siringano

East Stroudsburg University Graduate

BS in Elementary and Special Education

Second year in district

First year as a fifth grade teacher

Miss Atkinson

Masters in Special Education

7th year at Terrill Middle School

7th year in fifth grade

Advisor for the Diversity Club

5th Grade in a Nutshell

Better prepares students for middle school

High expectations

Increased responsibility

Organization

Homework

Work accountability

What is Co-teaching?

Two or more credentialed professionals who coordinate and deliver effective and appropriate instruction, share decision-making, and have an active role in the delivery of lessons.

Better student to teacher ratio and more individualized attention.

A wider use of instructional techniques to better student learning.

Good Habits Great Readers:

WritingWriting process

Generate, plan, draft, revise, edit, and publish

6 traits of writing

Ideas, organization, voice, word choice, fluency, conventions

Whole class to model and independently/small groups to reinforce

Expository, informational, and narrative

Good Habits Great Readers: Reading

7 research-based habits and strategies of good readers

See themselves as readers, make sense of text, use what they know, understand how stories work, read to learn, monitor and organize ideas, and think critically about books

Shared Reading

Guided Reading

Literature Circles

Words Their Way

Everyday Mathematics

Motivation and practice through math games

Repeated exposures to key ideas

Learning by doing

Science Curriculum

FOSS (Full Option Science System)

Variables, Mixtures & Solutions, Food & Nutrition, Landforms

Challenging opportunities to practice science and build confidence in both individual and cooperative abilities

Social Studies Curriculum

History Alive!

Five broad themes

migration and settlement

people, places, and environment

culture and cultural diversity

global connections

power, authority, and governance. 

Grading Policy

97-100=A+

87-89=B+

77-79=C+

67-69=D+

<59=E

93-96=A 83-86=B 73-76=C 63-66=D  

90-92=A- 80-82=B- 70-72=C- 60-62=D-

 

Informal and formal assessments (checklists, observations, curriculum provided tests, quizzes, rubrics, homework, etc.)

are all taken into account when evaluating.

Homework Policy

Evaluated formally and informally

Always marked if missing

On a report card, missing homework assignments are taken into serious consideration.

A missing homework assignment is reported as a “0” until otherwise provided. Student receives half credit if given the following day 

OOPS! I forgot my homework assignment

Terrill Tickets

Exceptional Students (academics and behavior)

Positive Reinforcement

Raffle at the end of the week

Caught Caring

Promotes class wide kindness

Extraordinary thoughtfulness

Name displayed behind desk

Earns Terrill Tickets

Misc.

Early dismissal

Birthdays

Grade blasts

Class Website

Search my name under teacher pages to access page

Currently Under Construction

What will be on page

Daily homework

Educational websites

Other additional class information

Parent Communication

Visit website

Email (please Carbon Copy both teachers)

Notes (address both teachers)

Phone calls

Email

Miss Siringano- lsiringano@spfk12.org

Miss Atkinson- aatkinson@spfk12.org