Back to School2020-2021

Kerri Cunningham & Ariana MargetisRoom 118

• Master of Arts in Teaching, K-5• Additional Certificates - Teacher of Students with

Disabilities, Middle School Language Arts, & Supervision, Orton- Gillingham Teacher

• Fifth year in Spring Lake Heights!• Various grade levels

• Student taught 1st grade - Avon, NJ• 2nd grade replacement leave - Avon, NJ• Instructional aide (1st-3rd grade) - Brielle, NJ• After school basic skills (1st-2nd grade) - Brielle, NJ• 2nd grade replacement leave - Brielle, NJ• 1st grade teacher - Jersey City, NJ• 3rd grade teacher - Spring Lake Heights, NJ

• Master of Arts in Teaching, K-6•• Additional Certificates -

• Teaching Students with Disabilities• Certified Orton- Gillingham Teacher

• Teaching Experience• 1st year in Spring Lake Heights!• Student taught in 5th Grade Inclusion classroom

Manalapan, NJ• Long Term Substitute, 3rd Grade, Manalapan, NJ• RTI Interim Interventionist Math, Manalapan, NJ• Spanish Teacher, Spring Lake, NJ

●• SLH alum!

Our Hallway Bulletin Board

Our Schedule

Speaking/Listening StandardsParticipate in collaborative conversations with diverse partners about grade 2 topics and texts with peers and adults in small and larger groups.

Follow agreed-upon rules for discussions (e.g., gaining the floor in respectful ways, listening to others with care, speaking one at a time about the topics and texts under discussion).

Build on others’ talk in conversations by linking their comments to the remarks of others.

Ask for clarification and further explanation as needed about the topics and texts under discussion.

Morning MeetingGreeting, Activity, Share, Message

Morning Meeting Board

Units Covered○ Reading Community: Fiction and Narrative Nonfiction○ Making Connections: Fiction○ Visualizing: Expository Nonfiction, Poetry, and Fiction○ Making Inferences: Fiction○ Wondering: Fiction, Narrative Nonfiction, and Expository Nonfiction○ Text Features: Expository Nonfiction○ Determining Important Ideas: Expository Nonfiction and Fiction○ Revisiting the Reading Community

Students learn comprehension strategies to help them make sense of texts through the use of: read alouds, partner work, discussions, and daily independent reading.

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Workshop Model (Making Meaning)

Workshop Model: Mini Lessons/Independent Reading/Individual Conferencing/Guided Reading

Daily 5: Read to Self, Read to Someone, Work on Writing, Listen to Reading, and Word Work (this will look a bit different this year)

RAZ Kids: Leveled reading - available to use at home

● Units Covered - Narrative, Information, & Opinion.

● Mini Lessons● Choice of own topic● Quality vs. Quantity

• Cursive• Seasonal Writing

Workshop Model

Multisensory (hands on) approach- Structured- Sequential - follows Recipe for

Reading sequence- Students will practice a pattern,

not a list of spelling words- “Red Words” are sight words- Friday Assessment - 5 “red words”

and 5 words that follow the pattern

Word Study

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Skills & Concepts• Fluently add and subtract within 20• Work with equal groups• Add within 100 using strategies• Fluently add within 100• Subtract within 100 using strategies• Fluently subtract within 100• More solving problems within addition and

subtraction• Work with time and money• Numbers to 1,000• Add within 1,000 using models and strategies• Subtract within 1,000 using models and

strategies• Measuring length• More addition, subtraction, and length• Graphs and data• Shapes and their attributes

Math Block• Mini Lesson• Rotations - meet with

teacher, independent work, technology

Math Workshop (Envisions 2.0)

Science Topics (NGSS)• Habitats• Matter• Land and water

Social Studies Topics• Today and Long Ago• People, Places, and Environments• Economics, Goods, and Services• How Government Works• People Who Make a Difference

○ Additional current events / seasonal activities

Science/Social Studies

○ Standard and skill based○ Developmentally appropriate○ Marks to indicate level of mastery

• I- Independently Demonstrates (Demonstrates a complete and accurate understanding without support- goal to reach by year end)

• P- Progressing (Developing understanding with some teacher support)

• E- Emerging (Beginning to develop awareness with frequent teacher support)

• NI- Not Yet Introduced• NA- Not Assessed During the Marking Period

Grading

• Birthday Celebrations• Conferences - Nov. 2,3,4 - Sign up on

Genesis only• Make Up Work - 1 day per day absent• Homework - reading log, math page,

word work• Scholastic Book Orders (occasionally

sent home / can order online at anytime - code MDYPN)

1. Respect yourself

2. Respect others

3. Respect your surroundings/environment

School/Classroom Rules

● Students earn “money” based on positive choices.

● Students are responsible for keeping “money” in a bag.

● Students “buy” rewards with their “money.”

● Personalized behavior plans will be done on an as needed basis.

Classroom Behavior System

Classroom Jobs

Star of the Week

● Monday: Show and Share Poster● Tuesday: Morning Meeting

Greeting/Activity● Wednesday: Parent Letter● Thursday: Favorite Book● Friday: Certificate/Book/Prize

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• Miss Cunningham’s Website• http://mscunninghamslh.weebly.com/

• Twitter• http://www.twitter.com• Handle: mskcunningham3

• Instagram• http://www.instagram.com• Handle: mskcunningham2

Email: kcunningham@slheights.org

Phone: ext. 118Email: amargetis@slheights.org

Phone: ext. 123

Let’s Have a FANTASTIC Year!!

Let’s go on a tour of the classroom!