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IPS/Butler Lab School 60 5 th Grade Curriculum Night

Join us at Butler Lab School 5th Grade Curriculum Night to discover our Reggio-inspired teaching approach, where children are heard, capable, and creative. Our unique curriculum focuses on building a classroom community, with engaging workshops and project-based learning.

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IPS/Butler Lab School 60 5 th Grade Curriculum Night

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  1. IPS/Butler Lab School 60 5th Grade Curriculum Night September 6th, 2018

  2. Who Are We? • Reggio-inspired (social constructivist) • Children are capable, responsible, creative • Children are heard • Teacher serves as a guide and learns with the students • Unique partnership with Butler University • Workshop teaching and project and inquiry-based teaching • Teacher created curriculum (not one size fits all) • Building classroom community with Responsive Classroom strategies

  3. Related Arts • Studio (Visual Arts) with Ms. Lapka • Media with Ms. Thomas • Movement Studio (P.E.) with Mr. Pitlock • Music with Mrs. Bax

  4. Reader’s Workshop • Launching Reader’s Workshop • Memoir Unit • Historical Fiction • Expository Text/Non-Fiction • Author Study: Christopher Paul Curtis • Digital Literacy • Poetry: Out of the Dust • Fantasy Unit

  5. Writer’s Workshop • Launching Writer’s Workshop • Biographies/Narratives • Historical Writing Unit* • Persuasive Writing* • Speech Writing* • Poetry Writing *research-based skills

  6. Approach to Spelling • We are not a spelling test school and we will never be a spelling test school • We encourage to students to use inventive spelling (builds letter/sound relationship, constructing understanding) • We teach strategies such as: check your work to see if the words look right, use resources in the room (like the word wall or a dictionary), circle words that you need help with

  7. Word Work • We teach word work • notice spelling patterns • build words • rhyme • make connections between reading and writing • Making Words (Fountas & Pinnell) • Kinesthetic manipulation of letters (letter cards or tiles) • Word Origins (roots, prefixes, suffixes)

  8. Math Workshop • Place Value & Review of Operations • Powers of 10 and Exponents • Fractions, Decimals, Percentages • Multiplying, Dividing Fractions and Decimals • Geometry/Measurement – volume, area • Data Analysis – mean, median, mode

  9. Project Work • Looks different in any classroom and in any grade • K/1 has free choice and more flexibility • 2nd- 7th grade has more content which lends itself to teacher started but kid driven • It can start… • From a child’s interest • From a question • From content (teacher provocation) • It is all supported by inquiry • Each class will have at least 2 projects per year • Abby, our pedagogista, and Dustin, our atelerista, support teachers in this area

  10. Homework in 5th Grade • 20 minutes of reading at home every day • Monitored by parents • Homework is optional • Monthly choice board • Every activity or project is given a point total • As students complete the board, they receive more points for their “bank” to spend on rewards at school • Lunch with teacher, technology time, helping another classroom, out of uniform, etc. • Incomplete or unfinished work from that day

  11. Testing in 5th Grade • NWEA testing • Reading & Math • Beginning, Middle, End of Year • RIT score (ready for instruction today) • Individualized • ISTEP testing • ELA, Math, Social Studies (Grade 5) • Part I – Short Answer, Essay • Part II – Multiple Choice on Computer

  12. Communication • Report cards four times a year • Narrative with the report card at the end of each semester • PIT Day (Parents in Touch) is September 26th • Teachers are open to communicating and building strong relationships with families. We ask that you email and call teachers during business hours. • Teachers all have their own strategies for communicating some use a newsletter, weekly emails, and some use an app called Seesaw 

  13. Questions??

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