1. Welcome
Mrs. Kurzweil’s 5th Grade

2. Mrs. Kurzweil

3. What We Do…
Respectful
Listen and Follow
directions
Pursue Excellence

4. GATE Cluster
Gifted and Talented

5. The Marshmallow Challenge
Building Team Work

7. How can Parents Help?
USB Drive
Target $9.00

8. Behavior Plan
Rewards Consequences
 Homework Club  Verbal Warning
 Documentation
 Table Point Reward  Loss of privedgles
 Time out/call home
 Root Beer Float Party  Office/home visit
 Individual Rewards-Pay day

9. What is GATE
 Curriculum Compacting
 Self-Pacing
 Enrichment
 Acceleration
 Hobby/Interests
 Pull Out
 Cluster Groups

10. Parent/ Teacher Partnership

11. Grading Scale
Band Percentage
Advanced 82-100%
Proficient 73-81%
Basic 60-72 %
Below Basic 48-59%
Far Below Basic 0-47%

12. Daily Schedule
Regular Schedule Our Wednesday Schedule
9:15 Opening
9:20 Power Time 9:15 Opening
9:50 PE 9:20 Power Time
10:15 Math 9:50 Math
11:30 RECESS
11:40 Language Arts 10:50 Language
12:50 LUNCH Arts
1:20 Language Arts 11:30 RECESS
2:05 Universal 11:40 Language
Access Arts Continues
2:35 Science/Social 12:50 LUNCH
Studies 1:20 Language
3:30 Dismissal Arts
2:05 Dismissal

13. Academic Expectations
Homework Classwork
 Assigned daily Monday-  Practice vs. assessment
Thursday
 Complete
 60 minutes each night
 Neat
 Math/language arts/reading log
 On time
 Collected each morning
 Progress reports monthly or
 Reading logs due Friday upon request
 Collect/recorded
 Parent inspect and sign
 Differentation

14. Common Core Standards
 Fewer Standards
 Alligned with College
 Higher Order Thinking
 Increases Rigor
 National allignment

15. Resources
 http://Myskillstutor.com
 http://www.khanacademy.org
 http://Pearsonsuccess.com
 Think Together
 Public Library
 http://vimeo.com/
Please monitor