Welcome to
Curriculum Night
Cathie O’Malley
Literacy Curriculum
Balanced literacy approach combining a variety of
instructional methods including:
– guided reading in small groups
– whole group instruction
– independent reading
– Tests each Friday (Common Core Ready)
Writing
Persuasive, Narrative, and Expository as well as
poetry
Grammar
Parts of speech
Sentence structure
Word Study/Spelling
Weekly lists with activities each week
Tests on Fridays
Everyday Mathematics
• Spiraling curriculum
• SRB available on chromebooks
• Homework written on agenda and
public Haiku page
• Math facts should be practiced
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nightly until mastery (100 facts/4
min.)
Haiku page extra practice
Science
Discovery Education Techbooks
Activities
Videos
Notes
Challenger Field Trip
STEM Lab
Space Probe
Ocean Exploration Tool
Social Studies ~ History
Events leading to Revolutionary War
Loyalists/Patriots
StoryPath
Debates
Events leading to Civil War
States’ Rights/ Slavery
StoryPath
Debates
Homework
Regular homework includes:
Reading – At least 100 minutes a week.
Math – Study Links/Math boxes & fact
practice
Spelling activities
Consequences
Late slips
Rewards
Make Up Work (excused absences)
• Students have 1 day for everyday they are
absent to make up work.
• Make up work available for pick up after school
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if requested before noon. Check Haiku/Google
classroom for literacy tasks.
Office open until 4:00 pm to pick up work
Extended vacations are discouraged
Some make up work may be available but
plans change due to pace of class and other
circumstances
Some activities are hard to duplicate at home
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Grades
View online – visit www.district158.org
to set up Power School access
Tests – some teachers send home for
parent signature regardless of grade
Big Events in 5th Grade
• DARE
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Weekly visits with Officer Amy
Define Assess Respond Evaluate
• Conferences – Week of Thanksgiving
• Challenger Field Trip – October 14th
• Owl Pellets – May
• PARCC Testing – February/May
• Robert Crown - Spring
• Wax Museum/Resident Exhibit – May
• Fun Fest – Last day of school - June
Communication
• Weekly Classroom Newsletters on Fridays
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• Take Home Folders/Assignment notebooks
– Go home and return to school each day
• Remind app for phone or email reminders
• Follow@MrsOsTravelers for classroom
Available on Haiku (access from Conley homepage)
activities
Classroom Management
Rewards
–PAWs
–Group & Individual rewards
–Monthly homework/behavior rewards
Classroom Management
Consequences
–3-step warning system
–Note home
–Conference with parent/child/asst.
principal
–Repetitive & chronic misbehavior results in
missing quarterly celebration
Contact Information
Conley Main Office (847) 659-3700
Hours: 7:15 am – 4:00 pm
Conley Absentee Line
(847) 659-3711 call by 8:30 am day of
absence
Questions?