21st Century Skills

• Critical Thinking• Creativity• Collaboration• Communication

Responsibilities

• Students must... • • Read more non-

fiction

• Start with subjects they LIKE

Parents can...

• Read non-fiction texts aloud or with your child

• Find a topic your child is passionate about.

• Spend time together at the library looking for books that interest your child. If they enjoy the beach read books about the beach!

Learn about the world by reading

• Students must... • Gain knowledge in

Science and Social Studies through reading

Science & Social Studies

Training Students to make observations

• Students make predictions.• Students learn to compare

the answers they discover to their original predictions.

Students learn to ask their own questions.

• Students read the text to find their own answers.

Discuss reading using evidence

• Students Must...

• Find evidence to support their arguments

Parents can…..

Find books that explain• Ask their child to explain

what they are reading.• Parents can explain their

thinking aloud, modeling this ability for their child.

• Parents can ask their child, “Where in the book did it say….”

Demand evidence in every day discussions/disagreements

Writing from Sources

• Students Must... • • Make arguments in

writing using evidence

Parents can...

• • Encourage writing at home

• Write “books” together and use evidence/ details

Academic Vocabulary

• Students Must... • • Learn the words that

they can use in college and career

Parents Can...

• Read often and constantly with babies, toddlers, preschoolers, and children

• Read multiple books about the same topic • Let your kids see you reading • Talk to your children; Read to your children;

Listen to your children; Sing with your children; Make up silly rhymes and word games with your children

6 Shifts in Mathematics

• Focus: learn more about fewer, key topics • Build skills within and across grades • Develop speed and accuracy

Really know it, Really do itUse it in the real world

• Think fast AND solve problems

The National Mathematics Advisory Panel’s Final Report

• Success in College depends on….• Success in Algebra…which depends on….• Success with Fractions…which depends on…• Success with multiplying, dividing, adding

and subtracting with both positive and negative numbers.

• Which means children MUST learn their MATH FACTS!

Students Must...

• • UNDERSTAND why the math works. MAKE the math work.

• TALK about why the math works

• PROVE that they know why and how the math works

Parents Can...

• Notice whether your child REALLY knows why the answer is what it is

• Provide TIME for your child to work hard with math at home

• Ask your child, “How do you know you have the correct answer? Show me how you solved the problem.”

Mathematics Shift 5: Real World Students Must...

• Apply math in real situations

• Know which math to use for which situation

Parents Can...

• Ask your child to DO the math that

• comes up in your daily life.

WHAT’S IT ALL MEAN???• Be able to use core

math facts FAST AND• Be able to apply

math in the real world

LOMA VERDE HAS PURCHASED REFLEX MATH TO HELP ALL CHILDREN MASTER THE MATH FACTS! STUDENTS CAN USE THE COMPUTERS IN THE LAB TO PRACTICE!