2013 Open House presentation

1. Dr.NicholasBretz,Principal
Mrs.MelissaHomol,AssistantPrincipal
Open House 2013

2. Agenda
• Introduction to Staff
• Tansey Expectations
• Nuts and Bolts
• Numeracy Presentation
• Literacy Presentation
• Parent-Teacher Organization

3. Our Learning Community Expectations
•Preparing all Students for College and Career
readiness
•Connecting Students’ Interests and Passions to
learning
•Providing Students with Strategies to
persevere through Challenging Academic
tasks
•Creating Opportunities to become Self-Aware

4. Nuts and Bolts
•Today’s Open House allows all of us as a
community to hear classroom expectations.
•We collect Box Tops
•Please Label Clothing- many articles of clothing
are being lost and forgotten.
•We are always looking for volunteers within the
Classroom
•Please provide a healthy snack for morning time.
(Peanut free)

5. Literacy Presentation

6. 2012-2013 Overview
Strengths
• Vocabulary
(word meaning)
• Author’s Purpose
(why author’s write)
• Compare/Contrast
(similarities/differences)
Next Steps
• Inferencing
(using what you know and
what you read to help you
answer the question/not
literal)
• Synthesizing
(summarizing the big ideas to
show understanding)
• Open Response
(written response to text)

7. School Wide ELA Focus for
2013 - 2014
• Annotating
(written thoughts and
evidence from the text)
• Inferencing
(summarizing the big ideas to
Show understanding)
• Synthesizing
( summarizing the big ideas to
show understanding)

8. Concept:
The concept is the
target skill of the
week. What are we
looking for as we
read?
PG.
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My Evidence:
This part comes directly from
the text. What did the author
write that lead to your
thinking?
My Thinking:
This is where you write what
you are thinking while you
read.
Directions: Readers take notes while they read. These notes help the reader keep track
of their thinking. Use the space below to keep track of your thinking.

9. How Parents Can Help
• Monitor your child’s independent reading
• Pre-read the text so you’re able to ask your
child comprehension questions
• Make it a part of your daily routine to incorporate
reading and vocabulary

10. Mathematics Presentation

11. One vision,
one goal,
one
love…Math!!
Introducing our
Tansey Math Team
School Math Coach: Ms. Botelho
Special Ed Teacher: Ms. Skarpos
1st Grade Teacher: Mrs. Daniel
2nd Grade Teacher: Ms. Mainelli
3rd Grade Teacher: Ms. Noguiera
4th Grade Teacher: Ms. Minahan
5th Grade Teacher: Mrs. Streeto

12. School-Wide Struggles
2011-2012:
 Applying taught skills to solve math problems
independently
 Solving bare number problems (25 x 18)
2012-2013:
 Math Vocabulary
 Breaking down multi-step problems

13. School-Wide Initiatives
Where we started last year:
 Problem of The Day
 Problem Solving Checklist
New This Year:
 School Wide Math Vocabulary Wall

14. •Read the whole problem
•Re-read the problem and underline important information
•Plan my strategy
•Write a number sentence to match
•Solve and show my thinking
•Write my final answer in the answer
box
Read & Understand
•Check my work
•Ask and Think: “Does my answer make sense?”
My Problem Solving Checklist
Plan & Solve
Look Back & Check

15. Word Meaning Example
Example:
Word Meaning Example
Square
A quadrilateral
with sides that all
have the same
length. Opposite
sides are parallel.
This shape has
four right angles.
Students
come up with
the example
Math Word Wall

16. Parents: What You Can Do to Help
Re-enforce using the Problem Solving
Checklist while students are completing their
homework assignments.
Practice multiplication facts with your child.
Help your child study math vocabulary.
Ask children to explain what they did in math
today. Can they draw an example of what
they did? Can they compute accurately and
check their work?

17. Parents: What You Can Do to Help
Ask your children to find math around them.
(geometry, measurement, number, patterns,
algebra)
Encourage your child to create math stories
and have others solve them.
Play math games at home.
If you need help understanding something,
ask your child’s teacher and make an
appointment. Parents and teachers must
work together to build a strong foundation for
mathematics

18. Parent-Teacher Organization
WaystoGetInvolved

19. Our Students are Models of Educational Excellence