Welcome to 5th Grade!

I am in my 21st year teaching. I have been teaching in Cabarrus County and at Irvin for all 21 of them. This will be my 10^th year teaching 5^th grade. I have also taught 3^rd and 4^th grade.

I grew up in Concord and attended Winecoff Elementary School, Northwest Cabarrus Middle School, and graduated from Concord High (Go Spiders!). I graduated from UNCW with a BA in Physical Education in 1993.

Please check out the Interesting Web Resources we are using and don't forget to stop by Class Documents.

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Upcoming important dates: 

September 5- Curriculum Night 5:00-7:00

September 27- No School

IB Unit: Who We Are

Central Idea: Structures interact to create systems.

Lines of Inquiry:

*How systems and their components interact (function) 

*Characteristics of an organism and its parent  (connection) 

*Life for colonists and Native Americans during Colonial times  (perspective)

Here's what we are learning during the first weeks of school:

Reading: Launching Reading Workshop and Following Characters into Meaning

Math: Creating Classroom Community through Data & Graphing 

Science: Living Organisms

Social Studies: Pre Colonial Area & Colonization