Welcome to Fourth Grade Megan Lee Vinny Mascola

Welcome to Fourth Grade! Megan Lee Vinny Mascola Mary Guarnieri Maya Schofield Christine Johnson

Professional Learning Community We collaborate to meet the needs of all fourth grade learners!

School Policies • • Tardiness Dismissal Plans Recess Lunch Cards/Money

Fourth Grade Expectations • Effort and Rigor • Self-management of learning – building independence and confidence • Academic and Social Responsibilities • Homework

English/Language Arts Writing • • • Informational Writing- Ecosystem Dynamics Digital Literacy – How has technology changed us? Opinion Unit- Child Labor Realistic fiction narrative Writing to Learn Reading • • • Short Stories Informational Reading Digital Reading Poetry Historical Fiction Personal Narrative

Building Mathematical Thinkers The curriculum focuses on developing students’ deep understandings of mathematical concepts, proficiency with key skills, and ability to solve complex and novel problems. Bridges blends direct instruction, structured investigation, and open exploration. Seeing, touching, and sketching ideas create pictures in the mind’s eye, helping learners construct, understand, and apply mathematical ideas. Bridges incorporates increasingly complex visual models, including the Number Line and the Array models, in a coherent framework across the curriculum.

Workouts for math fluency. Activities designed to help students develop a deeper understanding of multi-digit multiplication and a developing understanding of division. Bridges is a program that provides skills practice as well as supporting the development of broader mathematical concepts.

Fourth Grade Highlights • Visits from Eli Whitney Museum for science activities • Early Guilford Day – typically the Monday prior to Memorial Day weekend • Fourth grade picnic • Playground design/build - Application of math concepts • Guilford Free Library walk

Questions, comments?

Christine Johnson: johnsonc@guilfordschools. org (203) 453 -5291 x 121 Megan Lee: leem@guilfordschools. org (203) 453 -5291 x 108 Vincent Mascola: mascolav@guilfordschools. org (203) 453 -5291 x 104 Mary Guarnieri: guarnierimary@guilfordschools. org (203) 453 -5291 x 109 Maya Schofield: schofieldm@guilfordschools. org (203) 453 -5291 x 119 CLASSROOM TOURS!