Welcome to Room 307

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Welcome to Room 307sBack to School Night

• Mrs. Blums 6th Grade
• Stowers Magnet School of International Studies
• September 11, 2014

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Agenda for this evening

• Curriculum and Schedule
• IB Program Outline
• House Keeping
• Before After School
• Grading Periods Progress Reports
• Discipline and Expectations
• Rewards
• Homework Policy
• Important Dates
• Science Camp
• Closure

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About Me

• My name is Kelsey Blum
• My favorite hobby is exercising with friends and
  playing with my baby girls.
• B.A. from UCLA in Psychology and Education.
• Masters Degree in Education and Bilingual
  Teaching Credential from UCLA
• I have been teaching since 2004
• I have worked at 2 other schools, 99th Street
  Elementary in LAUSD and Kennedy Elementary
• Taught 2nd, 3rd, and 6th grades

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How to stay in touch with the happenings of Room
307

• http//mrsblum.weebly.com
• Refer to website for Announcements, daily access
  to childs behavior tracking, access to
  curriculum websites, project updates
• Use the Parent and Student Blog tab
• Also check planner on a weekly basis, with
  initials to confirm

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Curriculum

• Lang. Arts- McDougal Littell Core Literatue
• Writing- narratives, opinion writing, and
  informational writing of at 5 paragraphs
• Math- Pearsons Envision Math Common Core
• -Ratios and Proportional Relationships
• -The Number System
• -Expressions and Equations
• -Geometry
• -Statistics and Probability
• Always show work!
• Topic/Chapter tests every couple weeks to
  monitor progress

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Social Studies and Science Curriculum

• Ancient Civilizations with McDougal Littell book
• (Mesopotamia and Egypt, Ancient Hebrews, Ancient
  Greece, Ancient Rome, Ancient China, Ancient
  India)
• Science with Pearson book
• Natural Disasters, Plate tectonics, Thermal
  energy
• Science and SS will be mostly integrated into IB
  unit projects

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So, how will we be able to learn all of our
standards this year?

• Organized and set schedule- see website
• Essential Agreement and 3 Rs
• IB Units that are cross-curricular
• IB Learner Profiles and Attitudes

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IB Primary Years Program (PYP)

• Curriculum is centered on 6 trans-disciplinary
  themes based around shared human commonalities
  that are considered essential for international
  education.
• Who we are
• Where we are in place and time
• How we express ourselves
• How the World works
• How we organize ourselves
• Sharing the planet

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Housekeeping

• Materials Needed, http//mrsblum.weebly.com
• Come to school with all materials, no phone calls
  home unless it is an emergency.
• Office is not responsible to deliver your late
  arriving materials.
• No Electronic devices at school
• Principal will collect and call the parents
• Friday Spirit days

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Healthy Snacks

• Students need to have healthy snacks every day in
  order to learn and be alert!
• - granola bars
• - fruit
• - cheese and crackers
• - NO Soda, candy, chips or cheetos, fruit roll
  ups

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Before and After School

• Students can not arrive at school before 745 am
• (No Playing in the morning as it is not a
  recess period)
• Remind children to walk all the way to their
  classroom line.
• After school instructions for pick-up

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Grading Periods

• Progress Reports for Gradepro
• Behavior/homework reports on a daily basis if you
  login with information sent home about Classroom
  Dojo
• Trimester Progress Report
• September 2- November 14
• November 17- March 6
• March 9- June 17 (Last Day of School)

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Discipline Policy

• We will be using the ADOPT standards in order to
  decrease behaviors that inhibit learning
• -A Not Paying Attention
• -D Not Following Directions
• -O Being Off Task
• -P Playing Around
• -T Talking

• Earn classroom based on the number of ADOPT
  letters recorded on DOJO
• Letters go against their total earned on
  Fridays, it could be 15 each week
• Three Strikes Rule for Trimester Incentives
• All have signed Blue Disc/HW policy last week

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Positive Behaviors

• Students earn for complete homework
• Earn for classroom jobs well-done
• Earn for any other miscellaneous items that are
  positive
• Can use the to purchase rewards
• (treasure box, free time coupons, homework
  coupons, etc.)

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Homework Policy

• Daily Homework- Monday thru Thursday nights
• -Language Arts Practice
• -Math Practice
• -Social Studies/Science
• -Weekly Reading Log due Fridays

• Grading scale
• - E, S, I, N
• - Homework Alert given if assignment is missing
  or incomplete
• - Pay 5 for each missing assignment
• - If still incomplete the next day, student has
  detention

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Important Dates

• Always check our website http//mrsblum.weebly.com
  Stowers newsletters emailed monthly

• SBAC Testing during month of May
• Parent Conferences
• - Dec. 1-8th
• - some before Thanksgiving
• - Minimum Days this week, plus Monday after
  (bonus day)

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Sixth Grade Camp

• Great opportunity for 6th graders at Stowers
• - during the week of January 12th
  www.arrowheadkidscamp.com/outdoorscienceschool/for
  ms.html

• We will be collecting the 4 forms-sending home
  tomorrow
• Due October 17 with payment

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Questions and/or Final Thoughts

• - Donations
• - Questions Jar