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• Please browse through your child’s desk and the classroom before you leave tonight.
• Take a moment to write an encouraging note to your child on the sheet provided on his/her desk.
• Please use a 3x5 index card from the rounded table to leave me any questions you have regarding your particular student.
Please include your e-mail.

• Introductions
• Goals/Objectives for the Year
• 5 th Grade Curriculum
• Classroom Community-Rules, Homework Policy
• Communication
• Special Events- Field Trips
• Volunteers
• Reading Counts
• Questions

– I was raised in San Diego, California.
– I have a B.A. from UC Irvine, a J.D. from UC
Berkeley, and a Masters in Educational
Administration from Concordia University.
– I have a Multiple Subject Teaching Credential from UC Irvine
– Husband, two daughters
My experience
– Thirteenth year as an educator.
– I have taught both 4 th and 5 th grades.
– GATE Certified
– Fourth year as Intervention Lead Teacher

• Provide a supportive, engaging, fun, and safe classroom environment where students feel confident to take risks.
• Nurture and help develop students’ innate exceptional abilities, and encourage each student’s best individual performance.
• Focus on Communication, Collaboration, Critical
Thinking, Creativity
• “Teacher as Facilitator” Strategies
• Foster excellent study skills, work habits, social skills, and responsibility.

Students Who are College and Career Ready in
Reading, Speaking, Listening and Language:
• Demonstrate independence.
• Build strong content knowledge.
• Respond to the varying demands of audience, task, purpose, and discipline.
• Comprehend as well as critique.
• Value evidence.
• Use technology and digital media strategically and capably.
• Come to understand other perspectives and cultures.

– Students Questioning
• Students will ask as well as answer
– Differentiate Content, Process, and Product
• Offer students OPTIONS
– Depth and Complexity
– H.O.T.S. – Higher Order Thinking Skills
– Promote the Habits of Mind
– Collaborative Learning Discussions
– “Flipped” Lessons
– Technology Integration

• Whole class instruction
• Teaching by telling
• Silent classrooms
• Worksheets and seatwork
• ‘Covering’ content
• Memorization of facts
• Single answers
• Collaborative learning process/projects
• Open-ended Questioning
• Discussions and argument
• Proving with Evidence.
• JUSTIFYING ideas
• Integrated content
• Application of understanding
• Student-led learning
• Multiple answers
• Self-reflection

• Graded subjects in 5 th grade are:
– Reading
– Writing
– Conventions/Grammar
– Spelling
– Math
– Science and Science Lab
– Social Studies
– Music
Effort Grades in the following:
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Reading
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Writing & Language
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Math
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Science
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Social Studies
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Health
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P.E.
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Technology
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Music
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Art
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Social Skills
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Work Habits
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Listening & Speaking
Report cards – December, March, & June

• We will read several novels and various short stories including ones from Junior Great Books. We will focus on in-depth literary analysis and critical thinking through
Shared Inquiry and collaborative discussions.
• Balanced Literacy Program – shared reading, guided reading, independent reading
• Wordly Wise Vocabulary/Houghton-Mifflin Vocabulary
• Daily Reading at home/Book Reports
• Reading Signposts.
• Reading Strategies and Comprehension Skills through
Houghton Mifflin Textbook.
• Reading Counts?

• Writing will occur across the curriculum where authentic opportunities present themselves.
• We will use the writing process, integrating depth and complexity.
• Focus on expository, persuasive, narrative, summary, and
Response to Literature essays.
• Students will edit and revise drafts to improve meaning, organization, focus, fluency, word choice, voice, and conventions.
• Houghton-Mifflin spelling, Greek and Latin Root words,
Wordly Wise, and will emphasize content vocabulary.
• English-Language Conventions and Grammar across the curriculum.

• Focus on real world applications of math using computational skills and problem solving strategies.
• Basic facts must be automatic for greatest success in upper grade. (Goal: Mastery by December… 95% accuracy on 100 facts in 5 minutes)
• Facts Wise and Timez Attack Basic Facts Online
Program
• Houghton Mifflin Go Math text book = consumable workbook, Extra Support and Enrichment.
• Zaccaro Challenge Math problems and activities.
• IUSD resources online at www.iusd.org
• Other online Math enrichment resources

• 5th Grade
• Focus on living things, human body, water cycle, weather, solar system, matter, and energy
• Science lab – 2x per week with Ms. Scott.
• Hands-on approach using the scientific process
• Science class – 1-2x per week in class.
• Projects, Lesson Quizzes, and Chapter Tests
• Science Homework: 1-2x per week

• 5 th Grade
• United States: Past and Present
• U.S. Geography – states and capitals
• Focus on building our nation- Exploration, English
Colonies & Revolutionary War, and Westward
Expansion
• State Report Research Project - Spring
• Social Studies instruction 2-3x per week
• Homework 1-2x per week, Cornell Notes
• Projects, Study Guides, Chapter Tests

• Taught by music and art specialists
• Music:
– 40 minutes/2x weekly
– Tuesday 9:05-9:45 and Friday 1:15-1:55
• Art:
– 60 minutes/6x year
– Schedule TBD

• Focus on physical fitness
– Cardiovascular fitness = mile run
– General fitness = sit ups, push ups, & flexibility
• State-wide assessment in 5 th grade - March 2016
• 2x per week
– Wednesday morning: 5 th grade Mile Run
– Fitness/Yoga- Mondays
– Athletic shoes, appropriate clothing, mat or towel, and water

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Technology – integrated in all areas of curriculum, Ipads,
Chromebooks
Word processing, Excel, Power Point, internet safety, digital citizenship, and research skills
Computer Lab class – 50 min/1x per week
Upper grade wing lab – 2/3x per week
Canvas- District supported resource site
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• Library – 30 min/1x per week with Mrs. Vance
Library Media skills will be taught
Library day is Monday from 1:15-1:45.
Three book limit (adjustments made by student needs)

Time
8:15-9:15
9:15-10:30
10:30-10:50
10:50-11:30
11:30-12:30
12:35-1:15
1:15-1:50
1:50-2:50
Monday
ELA/Writing
Math
Recess
Yoga
Comp. Lab(11:45)
Lunch
Library
Science Lab
Tuesday
ELA/Writing
Music9:05
Math 10:00
Recess
Math
RtI
Lunch
Science in Class
Social Studies
Wednesday
P.E. Mile Run
ELA 9:30
Wing 10:00
Recess
Math
RtI
Thursday
ELA
Wing Comp9:30
Math
Recess
Math
RtI
Friday
Spelling/ELA
Wing 9:45
Math
Recess
Math
RtI
Lunch
Class Business
Dismissal 1:40
Lunch
Science in Class
Science Lab
Lunch
Music
Social Studies
Friday Business

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• Our classroom community follows our PBIS behavior matrix. It is a set of rules to establish a positive learning environment.
HAWK P ositive Mental Attitude
R espect/responsibility
I ntegrity
D etermnation
E mpathy
With that in mind, we will be using Hawk Pride Cards, marbles, and table points as reinforcements. Consequences such as loss of class money, benching, and Student Behavior Reports
(SBR) will be used to discourage less desirable conduct.
1. Be respectful.
2. Be responsible.
3. Be Kind and Helpful
4. Be Safe

• About 60 minutes Monday - Thursday nights
• Reading: 20-30 minutes daily
• Homework due daily unless otherwise specified
• Long term projects may require weekend time
• Daily Communication - Student planner/Website/Canvas
• Weekly communication – Friday Folder
• Monthly communication – Hall of Fame notice
• Missing homework: notice home, loss of privilege

• We have several fifth grade traditions planned for this year!
– Riley’s Farm: March 2016 (approx. $40)
– Walk Through the American Revolution ($12)
– State Festival (on campus)

• Note to school with child
• Class Canvas page: www.iusd.instructure.com
• Class Website: www.teacherweb.com/CA/Stonegate/Rahmann
• Email: hildarahmann@iusd.org
• Direct phone/voicemail: 949.936.6486

• Please visit our class website at www.teacherweb.com/CA/Stonegate/MrsRahmann
(Bookmark or put it in your Favorites!)
• Homework Policy
• Calendars
• Daily Schedule
• Scholastic Book Orders
• Important Handouts
• Student pictures or any copyrighted materials will only be on class Canvas page.

I will put together a schedule soon
• Room parents (2)
• Library Helper
• Yearbook
• Friday folders
• Fluency Practice
• Math facts support
• Field Trips
• Clerical/Copies
• Guest Speakers (share about profession)