curriculum night! 5 th grade leischner, lindsay leischner.lindsay@cusd80.com...

Curriculum Night!5th GradeLeischner, Lindsay LEISCHNER.LINDSAY@cusd80.comTerhark, Kylee TERHARK.KYLEE@cusd80.comBurns, Kris Burns.Kris@cusd80.com

The Leader in Me

• Based on the 7 Habits of Highly Effective People

• Everyone has a leader within

Curriculum• Arizona Standards in Social Studies and

Science • Arizona College & Career Readiness

Standards in Math, Reading, Writing• Quarterly curriculum maps available online

Infinite Campus (gradebook)

• CUSD website• Parent Portal

– Instructions and codes to sign up (even on your phone!)

Mascot and Dress Code

• Red, white or blue collared shirts. No logos

• Tan or dark blue bottoms• PTO will be selling an

additional shirt option soon

Mathematics

• McGraw Hill – In class• Saxon – At Home

(Once we have books for every student!)

Language Arts – Journeys

• Close reading• Reading across the

curriculum• Textbook highlights all

necessary skills prior to April testing

Language Arts – Reading

• Spalding– Weekly word list with test

on Friday– 30 words– 20 phonograms

• Exploration-Geography-Explorers

• Colonies-American Revolution-Civil War

-Westward Expansion-Industrial Revolution

• Government-Democracy-Economics-Current Events

Social Studies – United States

Science• 1st Quarter

– Solar System– Objects in Space

• 2nd Quarter– Human body systems

• 3rd Quarter– Matter

• 4th Quarter– Force and motion– Simple Machines

Practice and Agendas

• Reading log – 20 min with signature in agenda

• Daily record of in-class work and homework

• Important Announcements

Field Trip – Challenger Space Center• End of September• NEED Tax credit

donations!

Field Trips - BiZTOWN• March 2• NEED tax credit

donations!

Tax Credit Donations

• Maximum that CUSD can ask from parents will not cover field trip cost. Brand new school = no initial budget

• Chandlerdonations.org