Welcome to Fourth Grade Curriculum Night Mrs Kindel

Welcome to Fourth Grade Curriculum Night! Mrs. Kindel and Ms. Martin

Morning Routine 7: 20 -8: 10 • Students take care of their morning responsibilities • Communication folders and Agendas are checked. Please be sure to check both of these each night at home • The agenda and the reading log must be signed • Morning Work • Announcements • Attendance

Daily Schedule • • • 7: 20 -8: 00 Morning Responsibilities 8: 15 -9: 15 Math 9: 15 -9: 45 Spelling/ELA/Snack 9: 45 -10: 25 Specials 10: 30 -11: 30 ELA/Reading 11: 30 -12: 00 Lunch 12: 00 -12: 20 Recess 12: 30 -1: 15 Science 1: 15 -2: 00 Social Studies 2: 00 -2: 15 Prepare for dismissal 2: 15 -2: 50 Dismissal

Behavior Management • We are striving for your child to become an independent learner and to take responsibility for their actions. • We have a behavior system in place. • We will continue to use the school wide behavior system of “Give Me Five. ”

Behavior Management

Math • Book: Harcourt • Areas of Study: Place Value, Multiplication • Type of Instruction: Whole Group, Small Group, Learning Centers, Individualized Instruction, Partners, and Differentiation • Online Text Information: http: //www. eharcourtschool. com • Individual logins and passwords will be placed on the back of your child’s Communication Folder

Reading and Language Arts • Text: Good Habits, Great Readers • Focus lessons, mini-lessons and wrap ups using teacher modeling texts that model strategies and promote understanding. • Novel Studies – Independent and Guided • Small groups with independent learning contracts. Acceleration options. • Core Books to incorporate Science and Social Studies: Fiction, Non-fiction, Historical Fiction • RL: 20 minutes each night. • Book Reports • Spelling: Words Their Way/High Priority and Core Words • Grammar – Daily with weekly quizzes

Writing • Good Habits, Great Readers Writing: Celebration Press • Thinking Maps to organize ideas • Types of writing: Narrative, Descriptive, Informational and Persuasive • Steps of the Writing Process: Prewriting, Drafting, Revising, Editing and Publishing • Book Reports and Journals • Write across curriculum

Social Studies • Text: Houghton Mifflin http: //www. eduplace. com/eservices Login: cobbstudent 4 Password: password • Instruction delivered through reading of text, workbook, independent projects, quizzes, tests, etc. • Areas of Instruction: Map and Globe Skills, Economics, The First Americans, Explorers, Colonization, The American Revolution, Westward Expansion, The New Nation, The Civil War and Reconstruction.

Science • Text: Harcourt • Online text information: • www. thinkcentral. com Login: sciencestudent 4 Password: education • Instruction delivered through reading of text, workbook, investigations, classroom projects, field trips, quizzes, tests, etc. • Areas of Instruction: Water and Weather, Sound and Light, Force and Motion, Simple Machines, Ecosystems and Adaptations, Space and Planets

Assessments • Class Participation • Projects, including classroom Writing, S. S. , Science, Research, Group Projects, Independent Projects and home assignments. Rubrics provided • Tests and quizzes: Study guides will be given in advance of the majority of tests. • DRA: Development Reading Assessment • SRI: Scholastic Reading Inventory: Matches reading material to the comprehension level and interest level of a child. • STAR: helps determine Accelerated Reader Level • AR: tests can be taken on an as-needed basis ***MUST HAVE 20 POINTS EACH 9 WEEKS TO ATTEND AR CELEBRATION

Field Trips • Fire Safety Village • World of Coke (October- Simple Machines) • Cobb County Youth Museum (February – Rev. War) • In-house: Force and Motion/Sound and Light-(Dec. ) • Others: TBD

Homework and Daily Preparedness • Given nightly, except on weekends • Spelling tests on Friday with dictation • Projects will be announced with ample time to complete and will be accompanied by a rubric • **If assignments are not turned in on time they will be completed in study hall during recess and their behavior chart will be marked. • Be sure your child is prepared each day by having all of their materials and appropriate paperwork signed. • Any money or important office information must be placed in a closed envelope.

Communication • Communication between us is KEY in the success of your child! • Lines of communication in order of preference: – Notes: Please send us a note in your child’s agenda or communication folder. We will respond promptly – Email: margaret. kindel@cobbk 12. org catherine. martin@cobbk 12. org We will do our best to email you back that same day. – Phone: Call us at school to leave a message. – We accept constructive criticism as well as praise

Report Card A = 90%-100% B = 80%- 89% C = 74%- 79% D = 70%- 73% F = 0% - 69%

So, what do you have to sign? • Agenda - Nightly Monday through Friday Agenda is checked daily. • Behavior contract - over the weekend Behavior Contract will be checked every Monday. Please wait to sign on the weekend. • Reading Logs – Sign nightly, Monday through Friday. • We are asking the children to be responsible and show you all communication and papers that will go home in the Red Communication folder. Please help them to remember this. All graded work will be in the folder. • If you find any mistakes in the grading or have questions about any grade, please email us and we will get back with you promptly.

Questions As we tell your children, “All questions are excellent questions. ” Ask away………………… ***Please check the wish list on our classroom door. We appreciate any contributions!!!

Thank You! Thank you for all you’ve already done and for all that you will continue to do for your child be successful throughout their fourth grade school year! We appreciate all that you do to support Mountain View! Welcome to 4 th Grade!!