5th Grade Syllabus

Daily Schedule: Please check each teachers website for specific information. Units of Instruction: See attached Calculation of Grades: See attached for assessments, percentages, and examples. Letter grade correlations to number grades are as follows: A 100-93 B 92-85 C 84-77 D 76-70 U 69-0 Late assignments will be dropped one letter grade for each day the assignment is late. Homework Policy: Homework is assigned to practice skills taught at school. It is important for each child to complete his/her own homework to instill responsibility. Homework is checked daily and is crucial to participation in class. Students will be required to write down their homework in their daily agendas. Agendas should be taken home every night and shown to parents. All assignments should be completed in the time allotted. Homework will be assigned every day except Friday. Occasionally longrange projects will also be given that may necessitate work over the weekend. Homework will be included as an assessment at the end of each quarter. It will be graded for completion, not accuracy. Each incomplete homework assignment will result in a 5 point deduction from the childs homework grade. Classroom Management Plan: Please check with your childs teacher for their plan. Procedure for Non-Instructional Routines: 1. Early Morning Routines: Students are sent to the classroom at 7:45 each morning. Morning routines include quietly unpacking and beginning morning work. 2. Restroom Procedures: Students are allowed to use the restroom during the day as needed. If instructional time needs to be interrupted, the student must ask permission first. Students are asked to leave the restroom clean for the next student. 3. Choosing Lunch: Lunch choices are made in the morning. At lunchtime, students are to go through the line quietly and are to get everything they need the first time. The first ten minutes are silent (red cup). Once the cup has been turned to green, the students may talk quietly to their neighbor. 4. Recess: Recess is daily around 12:10 PM for the grade level. 5. Dismissal: Bus and van riders will be dismissed at 2:25. Car riders will be dismissed at 2:30. Walkers and Extended Day will be dismissed at 2:35. Early dismissals are not allowed after 1:45. 6. Change in Transportation: Please let your childs teacher know in writing of any change in your childs transportation home. Do not leave transportation change requests on teachers e-mail or voicemail.

Communication: 1. Phone calls, notes, and e-mails will be used to contact parents regarding student achievement and behavior. 2. The teacher will send home a weekly newsletter. 3. Results of student work will be sent home weekly in a folder. 4. Student progress will be reported through mid-quarter progress reports and endof-quarter report cards. 5. Conferences will be held during the 1st quarter. The teacher may choose to have additional conferences with the parents as needed. 6. The Bamboo Shoot (school newsletter) will be sent home monthly. 7. Teacher websites may be accessed through Plains website. www.greenville.k12.sc.us/plaine Standards: A complete listing of standards can be accessed through the Greenville County School District website and the South Carolina Department website. www.greenville.k12.sc.us http://ed.sc.gov/visitors/parents

Elementary Grade Weightings

The table lists the weightings of assignments and a MINIMUM NUMBERS OF ASSIGNMENTS expected in each category (shown in parenthesis). Examples of assignments are listed.

Content Area Reading

Minor 60% Comprehension Strategies and Skills, Retelling Protocols, Responses to Literature, Observations, Checklists, Name Test, Portfolio, HM Theme Skills Test, etc. 60% Response Journals, Learning Logs, Writers Craft, Writing Conventions, Writing Process, Writing Rubrics, Research Process, Reference Materials, Use of Technology, Presentation Rubrics, Writing Prompts, Constructed Responses, Anecdotal Records, Observation Checklists 60% Daily activities/assignments including subject-specific content knowledge, process skills including communication, and/or effort; quizzes, writing assignments, observation, checklists, extending/ refining assignments, presentations, performance assessments 60% Daily activities/assignments including subject-specific content knowledge, process skills including communication, and/or effort; quizzes, science lab participation, science lab/class journal entries, writing assignments, observation, checklists, extending/refining assignments, presentations, performance assessments 60% Grades based on activities/assignments including quizzes, writing assignments, observation, checklists, extending/refining assignments; grades may be based on subject- specific content knowledge, thinking/reasoning skills, communication skills, effort

Major 40% Selection Assessments and Novel/Chapter Book Tests 20% Integrated Themes Skills Tests 20% 30% Tests and Writing Assignments 10% Spelling

Language Arts Writing Research Communicat ion Language Skills Math

Science

Social Studies

40% Major tests, culminating projects, performance assessments, portfolios; grades should be based on subject-specific content knowledge, process skills including problem solving & communication 40% Major tests, culminating projects, performance assessments, portfolios, science fair projects; grades should be based on subject-specific content knowledge, process skills including problem solving and communication 40% Major tests, culminating projects and performances; grades may be based on subject- specific content knowledge, thinking/reasoning skills, communication skills