Welcome to 5 Grade! Mrs. Nechaev and Mrs. Rench Room C24

Welcome to
th
5
Grade!
Mrs. Nechaev and Mrs. Rench
Room C24
Meet Your Teachers…
-taught in MVUSD for 21 years
Mrs.
Nechaev
-taught 2nd grade for 20 years
-11th year of job-sharing
Knee
-CHAI
-Uv
-teaching credential from UCI
-holds Masters Degree in Elementary Literacy and Elementary
Mathematics
-speak Spanish and German
-CLAD certificate
-loves to use her guitar in teaching
-has 2 daughters and a son (ages 14, 12, and 9)
• Fourteenth year of teaching
• Taught kindergarten and 1st grade in San Diego and
Bakersfield
• Taught a multi-level class with 1st-5th grades in Papua New
Guinea
• Taught 5th grade in MVUSD for four years and has been jobsharing in 2nd grade with Mrs. Nechaev for the last 6 years.
• Teaching Credential from Point Loma Nazarene University
in San Diego
• Holds a CLAD certificate
• Has a 6 year-old son, a 3 year-old son, and a baby boy turning
1 in September
Mrs.
Rench
Parent/Teacher Contacts
• We realize how vital communication is for consistency and success in a job-share
situation. We communicate with each other daily through phone calls, e-mails, texting,
and notes.
• To communicate with us, please use EMAIL and COPY BOTH OF US in all emails. We
will be sending home much information by email, so please make sure we have an
updated email address for you.
• We are available by phone but will not be able to get back to you as quickly as not all
phone messages or voice mails are received in a timely manner. It is possible your
student will need to call home in the middle of the school day, so please make sure we
also have the best phone number to get in touch with you.
• Our SchoolWires website has not been updated, so we will let you know when it is
active for 5th grade use. Also, we will be using a social media website called Edmodo for
students to communicate with us. More information will follow soon.
• Please look at your student’s REMINDER BINDER each day for classroom updates.
Your signature is required for full honor points.
-In preparation for middle school, 5th grade students at Buchanan
have 2 teachers and switch classes. (In our case, 3 teachers. )
MATH/SCIENCE- Mrs. Nechaev and Mrs. Rench
LANGUAGE ARTS/SOCIAL STUDIES- Mrs. Williams
-Please direct all questions and correspondence to the appropriate teachers.
-Students will be assessed and placed in Block 1 or Block 2.
-Whole class instruction and collaborative group instruction with several new common core
strategies incorporated into lessons
-Note taking strategies, character building activities, gaining independence
-UA time will include extra help for students who need it, as well as enrichment activities
such as art, drama, dance, Blazer News, etc.
-Physical Education will be in conjunction with the whole 5th grade team
Grades
Traditional letter grades
90-100% A
80-89% B
70-79% C
60-69% D
Under 60% F
Math and Reading Breakdown:
60% tests
40% homework/class work
Writing:
20% notebook and daily oral
language activities
40% writing assessments
15% spelling
25% grammar
Standard Mastery Marks
5 Advanced
4 Proficient
3 Basic
2 Below Basic
1 Far Below Basic
Social Studies and Science:
Silver Honor Roll- 3.5-3.9 GPA
Gold Honor Roll-4.0 GPA
Combination of class projects,
notebooks, and test scores
Student grades will be recorded in the grade program “Engrade” and can be viewed online by
parents at any time. We will give out the information about how to access Engrade very soon!
-Assigned nightly Monday
through Thursday
Homework
-Must be turned in the
next day
-Should take an average
of 60 minutes
-Late work earns no
more than a C
-Can take longer if
student does not finish
work in class
-Written in Reminder
Binder
-Failure to turn in
homework loses 10
honor points for each
missing assignment
-Parent Signature is
required
-Spend recess making up
the missing assignment
-Language arts teacher
will require 60
minutes of weekly of
reading to be logged
unless specifically
noted in homework
binder
-In depth projects may sometimes take the
place of regular social studies or science
homework
-Absences:
same number of days + 1
to make up work (i.e.
absent for 2 days, has 3
days to make up
assignments)
-Twice a week: Monday and Friday
-Dress and wear appropriate shoes for physical activity. We do pushups and sit-ups so if student is wearing a skirt, wear shorts
underneath.
-Students who need to miss must have a note which is good for one
day unless it is a doctor’s note. That student will also refrain from any
physical activity during recess.
-Can bring a towel
-Will undergo physical fitness test at the end of the year
Schedule
8:25am – Tardy Bell Rings
8:30-10:05 – Block 1 (Math or LA)
10:05-10:25 – RECESS
10:20- 12:25 – Block 2 (Math or LA)
12:25- 1:05- LUNCH
1:05-1:50 – Universal Access (T,W,TH)
1:50-2:35 – Social Studies or Science
2:40 – Dismissal
** Mondays are Early Release Days –
students will be dismissed at 1:40
**PE will be on Monday and Friday at the
end of the day
Classroom
Management
-We strive to promote a safe and effective learning environment,
reinforcing positive behavior and discouraging negative behavior
-Base our discipline system largely on Character Counts program
-Use 5th grade honor points system
-earn 20 points daily
-earn points for class work, homework, citizenship, parent signature
-All Star days are earned by students who have at least 80% of possible points
-start over each grading period
-Behavior Chart
-Table Points
How to help your child study- We all want to see our students succeed. Study habits are an
important part of this. You can help.
 Check agenda every night to see assignments. If nothing is
written, then the child should call a study buddy to double
check.
 Reading Log, Language Arts, and Math will be assigned daily.
 Weekly spelling tests, vocabulary tests, reading story tests,
and math test should be expected.
All students MUST know their basic addition, subtraction,
multiplication, and division facts. If your child has trouble with
any of these facts, please help him/her by quizzing him/her
frequently (while driving in the car, at dinner, sing the facts….
anything that will help the child to memorize them).
Cell phones and Electronic Devices at School:
-We realize that many of our students have cell phones. The
teachers will enforce the district policy of prohibited cell phones
turned on or out while a student is on campus. Students will
need to use their phones off campus. The teachers are not
responsible for keeping track of a cell phone.
-Giving Tree
-Volunteers
-Questions