Presentation
Teaching Staff
- Kelly Clark - Team Leader - Classroom Teacher
- Kim Hollingsworth - Classroom Teacher
- Beth Cayer - Classroom Teacher
- Carrie Clark - Classroom Teacher
- Olivia Jeffers - Classroom Teacher
- Dana Domant - Resource Inclusion Teacher
- Janice Buxton - Instructional Assistant
- Carmen Lynette - Instructional Assistant
- Daily Schedule
- Teaming and student academic groups
- Academic programs and display materials
- Communication plan between school and home
- Team expectation for student academic achievement
- Field Trips
- Team Parties
- Pull-out programs
- Student supplies
- 9:00 - Morning Work
- 9:30 - Specials: P.E. - Media - Art - Music
- 10:30 - Rotation One: Math - Science - Social Studies
- 11:30 - Lunch / Recess
- 12:20 - D.E.A.R.
- 12:30 - Rotation Two: Math - Science - Social Studies
- 1:30 - Reading
- 2:30 - Language Arts / Writing / Health
- 3:30 - Stack and Pack
- 3:40 - Dismissal
- Language Arts: Students are grouped by reading ability and supported by seven teachers and four instructional assistants.
- Reading plan: Teach reading strategies to enhance comprehension.
- Reading stances
- Global Understanding
- Developing Interpretation
- Personal Reflection
- Critical Analysis
- Develop students' written response to reading using a variety of strategies.
- Reading
- For Literary Experience
- To Be Informed
- To Perform a Task
- Writing
- To Express Personal Ideas
- To Inform
- To Persuade
- Predicting
- Vocabulary
- Main Idea
- Changing Pace
- Inferring
- Summarizing
- Rereading / Clarifying
- Identifying problem and solution
- Students use the components of D.O.A.L. to develop their writing.
- Develop ideas
- Organize ideas
- Attention to audience
- Language usage
- Proofreading using editing marks
- All student completed work should be edited using C.U.P.S.
- Reteaching / review of upper and lower case letters.
- Zaner Bloser handwriting program
- Handwriting without tears
- Students are expected to use cursive handwriting for all written work by the end of the second quarter.
- Contract spelling approach to provide for individualized spelling levels.
- Pretest on Monday
- Promise school assigned
- Practice spelling test on Thursday for homework
- parent signature required
- Spelling test on Friday (or last day of the week)
- Spelling lists are generated by spelling rules
- The focus is to acquire spelling knowledge using patterns, and learning spelling strategies through spelling rules.
Teachers: Mrs. Cayer - Ms. K. Clark - Ms. Jeffers, Miss Domant - Mrs. Stevens
- Students are grouped by ability level and pact (six different ability levels)
- Groupings are flexible
- Math is centered around real life experience:
- Estimation / Number Sense
- Problem Solving
- Computation
- Manipulatives - hands on learning
- Algebraic thinking
Five Instructional Groups
Teachers: Miss C. Clark - Mrs. Cayer - Miss Domant
- Science Units
- Space
- Changing Earth
- Electricity
- Electromagnets
- Impact on the Environment
Five Instructional Groups
Teachers: Miss Hollingsworth - Mrs. Cayer - Miss Domant
- Two Major Units
- Explorers
- Maryland Past and Present
- Geography of Maryland
- Maryland 1600 - 1800
- Maryland 1800 - Present
Teachers: Taught in Homeroom
- Health Units
- Personal and consumer health
- Safety and first aid
- Disease Prevention
- Proper handling of blood
- Body defenses and the immune system
- Physical, social, and emotional effects of disease
- Compassion for individuals with disease
Goal
- To provide an academically stimulating environment
- Positive reinforcement
- P.A.R.
- Prevent
- Act
- Resolve (develop a solution)
- The Deep Run Six Rules
- Recognition / Positive Reinforcement
- Homeroom recognition
- Stamp card
- Incentive Coupon
- Special Treat
- Whole class treat
- Pizza
- Lunch
- Movie
- Individual Recognition
- Stamp Card
- Incentive Coupons
- Small Group Recognition
- Stamp Card
- Incentive Coupons
Non - Compliance
- General Warning
- Direct Warning
- Choice to move
- TIME - OUT 5 minutes in classroom #1
- 5-10 minute TIME - OUT #2
- At this time the student has lost their recess
- Phone call home
- Report sent to office
- An administrator and/or the Helping Hands Committee will review the report and take some time to speak to the student
- Reading
- Read 20 minutes every night
- Spelling
- 4 times a week on 5 day weeks
- 3 times a week on 4 day weeks
- No spelling on 3 day weeks
- Math
- Monday - Thursday
- Writing Assignments
- Two assigned per year
- Book Reports
- Two assigned per year
- Art Museum - Tentative Trip
- Betty's Colonial Trunk - February 28th - Price: Approx. $5
- Annapolis - May 15th - Price: Approx. $15-20
- Play - Children's Theater - In planning - Price: Approx. $8-12
Party Time
- Halloween Party and School Parade - October
- Winter Break - December
- Valentine's Day - February
- End of the Year - June
- GT Math - 10:30
- Type III - Individualized schedule
- Band / Strings - Two 30 minute lessons
- Rotation schedule
- students MUST make up any academic work that they missed
- White Communication Folder Includes
- Monthly Reading Calendar
- Daily Communications
- Communication Folder needs to be returned to school every day
- Homework Activity Pages
- Sent Home Daily
- Student Assignment Book
- Students are required to copy their daily assignments
- Assignment books are used every school day
- Parent signature required - Thursday evenings
- Friday Folders
- Sent home on Fridays
- Contains student's graded and completed work
- Weekly academic and behavior report
- Parent signature required
- Return the folder on Monday
- $15.00 Activity Fee
- Storyworks / Time for Kids
- Student Assignment Book
- Quick Word Book
- Computer Disk
- Activity Fee
- Folders - Academic Areas
- 5 Composition books
- 2 Folders -- Friday Folder --Safe Place/Homework
- Pencils, pens, glue, scissors, loose-leaf paper
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