Transcript Fourth Grade Back to School Night

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BACK TO SCHOOL NIGHT
4th GRADE
Ms. Barrera
Introduction
• Eleven years teaching
experience
• Ten years teaching 4th grade
• My 7th year at Warren Point
• Your child’s YEAR AS A 4th
GRADER
A Year of Firsts
• A,B,C… grades
• Instrumental Band Program
• Strings
(leaving the classroom for activities)
Classroom Management
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No Bully Policy
Character Education
Positive Reinforcement
Communication
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Class website
Assignment Pads
Missing Homework Slips
BLOG: Let’s Check out the Site
– Link is on my school website
Homework Policy
• Rubric
• ALL HOMEWORK ONLINE
• 3 missing homework assignments =
Character Court
• Absent and Homework
• After School Help
-If I am not available any day, I
will post it on my website.
-Morning help available by request
Specials Schedule
Posted on Website
Math Success
• Multiplication and Division Facts
-Tested every Monday
-IXL online Practice:20-30 minutes
on website posted online
• Curriculum: long division, long
multiplication, fractions
• Homework every night
• Tests: every other week
Social Studies
(alternates with science)
• Units of study include:
– Immigration
– The Lenni Lenape Tribe
– US Government
– NJ’s Role in the American
Revolution
– Regions of the United States
Science
–Sound
–Light
–Magnetism and
Electricity
–Simple Machines
–The Human Body
Writer’s Workshop
• Writing Workshop - genre based
unit of study
-Personal Narratives
-Realistic Fiction
-Personal Essay
-Historical Fiction
• Sentence Expansion
• Homework every night to practice
skills learned in class.
Reader’s Workshop
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Read Aloud
Whole class shared reading - Mini Lessons
Independent Reading
Guided Reading-small group
Conferencing
READING BOOKS ON LEVEL
SRA
Step into your students’ shoes…
Pa XXXX Joanie with his dirty XXXX. Spoon rose
to follow Pa, but one of the XXXX XXXX in the window
caught the light of the real XXXX and sent off pure
white XXXX directly at Spoon. He sat down again,
XXXX by the XXXX orb, feeling as if he was on the
brink of a meaningful XXXX, on the verge of XXXX his
XXXX.
His eyes darted from one XXXX to the next.
Something of Gram’s.
Thinking, thinking.
4th grade reading level
85% accuracy
Tom Marshall, 2010
Let’s try that again at 90%...
Pa followed Joanie with his dirty XXXX. Spoon
rose to follow Pa, but one of the XXXX suns in the
window caught the light of the real XXXX and sent off
pure white XXXX directly at Spoon. He sat down again,
XXXX by the XXXX orb, feeling as if he was on the
brink of a meaningful thought, on the verge of XXXX
his XXXX.
His eyes darted from one XXXX to the next.
Something of Gram’s.
Thinking, thinking.
A little better…
Still not “just right.”
Tom Marshall, 2010
How about 95%...
Pa followed Joanie with his dirty dishes. Spoon
rose to follow Pa, but one of the XXXX suns in the
window caught the light of the real XXXX and sent off
pure white flashes directly at Spoon. He sat down again,
mesmerized by the XXXX orb, feeling as if he was on
the brink of a meaningful thought, on the verge of
solving his XXXX.
His eyes darted from one sun to the next.
Something of Gram’s.
Thinking, thinking.
Starting to clear up…
Let’s see 100%
Tom Marshall, 2010
This is what it should sound (and feel) like…
Pa followed Joanie with his dirty dishes. Spoon
rose to follow Pa, but one of the stained-glass suns in
the window caught the light of the real sun and sent off
pure white flashes directly at Spoon. He sat down again,
mesmerized by the gleaming orb, feeling as if he was on
the brink of a meaningful thought, on the verge of
solving his problem.
His eyes darted from one sun to the next.
Something of Gram’s.
Thinking, thinking.
So, what does that show?
Tom Marshall, 2010
It shows us…
Under 96% is really unclear.
It’s crucial that as teachers
and parents we work to match
children to books on their
LEVEL.
Better to be too easy than too
hard.
Tom Marshall, 2010
Spelling/Word Study
• This school year, the students will
be working with one list of words.
• There will be limited homework in
this subject area, for the students
will be completing this work in
class.
• Fifth grade- no spelling
Other Information
• Class Parents:
QUESTIONS?