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WELCOME TO ROOM 109!

WELCOME TO ROOM 109!. Kriss Owings. Kriss Owings. Bachelor’s Degree from OSU Master’s Degree from OSU 22 years teaching experience 7 years middle and high school 15 years here at Truman Married for 35 years 4 children 3 college graduates (hallelujah!) 1 in college.

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WELCOME TO ROOM 109!

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  1. WELCOME TO ROOM 109! Kriss Owings

  2. Kriss Owings • Bachelor’s Degree from OSU • Master’s Degree from OSU • 22 years teaching experience • 7 years middle and high school • 15 years here at Truman • Married for 35 years • 4 children • 3 college graduates (hallelujah!) • 1 in college

  3. Challenge Program Goals • To provide differentiated instruction appropriate to the needs of highly capable students. • To provide an intellectual peer group for participating students. • To promote lifelong learning, quality production, and civic responsibility.

  4. CURRICULUM • Literacy: • Common Core Standards • WONDERS Reading - Level 5 • Access from home • Wordly Wise • Junior Great Books • Literature Circles • Book Mountain

  5. CURRICULUM • Mathematics: • EnVisions • Access from home • Math Quest • Instructional Concepts: • Geometry • Multi-digit Multiplication • Long Division • Fractions and Decimals • Additional Key Content Expressions, Probability, Graphs, Measurement

  6. CURRICULUM • Social Studies: • Map Skills • Washington State history • Lewis and Clark • Geography

  7. CURRICULUM • Science: • Scientific Method • Food Chemistry • Electricity • Land and Water

  8. SPECIAL EVENTS • Science Fair - June • Math is Cool - April • Field Trips • Fort Vancouver • Olympia • Clark PUD

  9. TECHNOLOGY • Computer Lab: Keyboarding, Powerpoint, Research, Presentations • Starboard • Renaissance Responders • iPods • Student Email and password for special accounts

  10. WELLNESS • Food and Nutrition • Body Systems • Human Growth and Development • Drugs and Alcohol

  11. VISUAL AND PERFORMING ARTS • Visual Art • Music • Creative Movement • PE • Monday and Wednesday are the days we need good tennis shoes!

  12. Homework Policy • Wordly Wise • Due every Friday • Sections A – E (all 15 sentences) • Daily math and literacy • A continuation of the day’s lesson • Usually Monday – Wednesday • 30 minutes effort required • Projects – TBA • Science project • Washington State presentation • Invention Convention • State Report

  13. PBIS • Positives: • Paloozas • Truman Bucks • Marble Jars • Group Points Corrections: • Stop and Think • Recovery Room • Accountability Folders

  14. Grading • Daily Assignments • 10 points (+) • Projects • A,B,C,D • Interactive Notebooks • Student assess every week

  15. ASSESSMENTS • Direct observations • Written work and assignments • Formal assessments • District mandated • State mandated All results of student learning are shared with parents through conferences, report cards and special reports.

  16. Communication • From you to me: • Kriss.owings@vansd.org • 313-2900 • From me to you: • E-mail • Group E-mails • Remind.com • Phone calls Attendance line: 313-1438

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