WELCOME TO BACK TO
SCHOOL NIGHT AT SUNNYSIDE
Please go through the folder on your
child’s desk and complete any forms
before we get started. (They should be
clipped together.)
Thank you.
EDUCATIONAL BACKGROUND
1. I have an Elementary Educ.
degree from West Chester Univ.
in West Chester, PA.
2. I have a Gifted and Talented
endorsement from Ball State Univ.
in Muncie, IN.
3. I have a graduate degree in
education from Anderson Univ.
in Anderson, IN.
4. I have taught for 29 years.
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PERSONAL
BACKGROUND
I am married to Brad Hayes.
He works for AFLAC Ins.
and also is a high school
baseball coach.
• I have two sons. Brett is 27
and a graduate from Ball
State. He is employed by
Wasson’s Nursery in Muncie.
He and his wife are expecting
my first grandchild in Oct.
• Christopher is 24. He is an
demolitions engineer
(Sapper) in the Army. He is
stationed in Hawaii after
serving in Afghanistan.
Our Weekly Schedule
•Morning Procedures
•Success 12:35-1:05
•Special Schedule
•Art/Wednesday
•Music/Thursday
•P.E./Friday
•Library/Monday
•Computer Lab./Tuesday
Language Arts
•Most weeks students will have language
arts homework in spelling and or Grammar
Monday through Thursday.
• In addition, your child must take at least 1
appropriate level AR test every week.
(This will be discussed further in this talk.)
•Spelling words will come home most
Fridays. They can also be found on my
web page under the title of the next story in
the reading book.
•Spelling tests are on Friday.
Math
• Your child will be using the Envision
Math program with supplementation.
• Most weeks your child will have math
homework Monday - Thursday. This
will include a basic fact practice wkst
as well as lesson work.
• Your child will be bringing his or her
math book home most days to use as a
reference tool.
• Your child will have a basic facts
timed test on Fridays.
Science, Social Studies, and Writing
• We switch back and forth from
science to social studies. One
science unit and one social studies
unit are taught in a grading period.
(More info. about this is on the web
page.)
• Students will be writing every week
in their journals/Writer’s Notebook.
The students will be learning about
the Six Traits of Writing.
Typical Instruction Includes….
Whole group instruction. Skills are taught during this time.
Typical Practice Includes...
Cooperative learning at stations. Skills are practiced at this time.
ISTEP/IREAD TESTING:
• The ISTEP test is taken in two parts in the
spring. The first part is the Applied Skills in
Language Arts and Math. The second part is
the Multiple Choice Basic Skills in Language
and Math.
• This is the second year for the IREAD test.
This is a test on reading skills which include
phonics and comprehension. This test is
given in the spring. It is possible will need to
pass this test in order move on to 4rth grade.
• If a students fails the IREAD test, he or she
will have an opportunity for remediation
during the summer. Upon completion of
remediation classes, students will then have a
second opportunity to pass the IREAD test.
THE INSTRUCTIONAL TEAM
PARENTS
PRINCIPAL
INDEPENDENT
SUCCESSFUL
LEARNING
TEACHERS
STUDENT
WHAT CAN PARENTS DO?
• Make sure your child is in the classroom ready to
start the school day at 7:50.
• Read to your child often, and have your child read
to you.
• Review math facts and spelling words in route to
places.
• Set up a structured time and place for completing
homework.
• Go over your child’s math and language arts
homework. Help him/her study for tests.
• Assume to role of co-learner. Ask your child
questions about what he or she is learning.
• Discuss any problems or celebrations with your
child’s teacher.
WHAT IS THE ACCELERATED
READER PROGRAM?
• Accelerated Reader is a
motivational program that
helps to produce life-long
readers.
• Accelerated Reader is a
computerized selfassessment of reading
comprehension.
• Accelerated Reader is part
of your child’s reading
grade.
ACCELRATED
READER
GRADES
• Your child MUST read at
least one A.R. book every
week. This is an
assignment.
• I will take the top four
Accelerated Reader grades
for each 9 week grading
period as reading grades.
• If we read an A.R. book
together as a class, it will
not be counted as one of the
four grades that I take for
an independent reading
grade.
ACCELERATED READER
INCENTIVES
• Students will earn one bead on their
necklace (in the hallway) for every point
earned.
• We will have an “AR Celebration Day”
at midterm and again at the end of each
grading period when students will earn
prizes for their AR points.
WHAT TO DO ABOUT
BOOK ORDERS
• Book orders for Scholastic come home
Periodically throughout the year.
• I will hand them out on a Monday; orders
are due by Friday of the same week.
• If you want to write a check please make
it payable to the book club.
• It would be appreciated if the order forms
and money were placed in envelopes or
baggies.
• Exact change is preferred.
Transportation/Dismissal
1. Parents must drive around to pick
up their child or walk them from
the sidewalk to the parking lot.
2. Students are not to walk through
the parking lot to find their ride.
3. A child must have a note or
phone call to the office if their
customary mode of transportation
home is changed.
PARTY INVITATIONS
• If party invitations are
to be handed out at
school then all
girls/boys in the class
must be invited. This
will help to avoid hurt
feelings.
•Expectations
Discipline Policy/Cards
Conduct Reports
Homework
Miscellaneous •Acuity Testing
•Detention
After school until 3:30
•Field Trips
•Reach For Tomorrow/Camp Belzer)
•Historical Museum (spring)
•Adults going on field trips must have a
background check on file.
•Report Cards
•Midterm reports
•Power School
•Questions
E-MAIL/WEB PAGE
• If you have access to a computer you can E-mail me at:
hayesk@nccsc.k12.in.us
• My web page address is:
http://elearning.nccsc.k12.in.us/course/view.php?id=500
Please make a note of it and bookmark it on your
computer.
TOGETHER WE CAN MAKE
A DIFFERENCE
THANKS FOR COMING