Transcript Welcome to 4th Grade 2008 Open House

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Welcome to
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Open House
Please make sure you get:
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Ice-cream coupon
Gotcha – drawing at 6:15
4th Grade Syllabus
Locker combination
Evaluation form (if you want)
Meet the Teachers
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Mrs. Beggs – English
Mrs. Dudley – Science
Mrs. Hartman – Reading
Mrs. Spees – Social Studies
Mrs. Wolfe – Title Reading & Math
All will teach math
FISH BOOKS
• Family Involvement Starts Here
Being Organized Obtains Knowledge
• Organizational tool
• $10.00 material cost
Ways to Communicate
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Phone (886-8040) 8:00-8:40 or 3:45
Homework Hotline – 886-8066
4th Grade Web Site www.amsgrade4.com
Assignment notebook
E-mail www.amsgrade4.com (Parent’s Place)
Switching Classes
• Students rotate in a circle with their
homeroom
• Math last core subject hour of the day
• Various groupings for math based on pretests, MAP data, WKCE data, and teacher
recommendation
• Discipline system the same in all classes
Discipline System
• 1st offense - Verbal warning
• 2nd offense – Written warning in folder
• 3rd offense – Add a written warning in
folder and last in lunch line or 2 minutes
after the bell
• 4th offense – Red Note sent to the parents
You Earned It Parties
• Held at the end of each quarter
• For those students with less than 3 Red
Notes in a quarter
• Examples of parties in the past include:
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Movie & Popcorn
Board Games
BINGO Hall
Pizza & Movie & Ice Cream Party
Homework
• 10 minute per grade philosophy – 40 minutes for
4th grade
• If more, talk to the teachers
• Give time in class
• Remember to read each night for Reader’s Club
(15 minutes)
• Remember to review spelling words each night
• Genre Project (book report) – check that you are
caught up on the schedule (silent reading time
given each day in school)
Field Trips
• International Crane Foundation - Friday,
Oct. 3, 2008
• Madison Capitol & Zoo – Friday, May 29,
2009
• Will send home a permission slip to cover
those field trips and any others that may
come up throughout the year
Thank you for coming!!!
• Gotcha Drawing time
• Feel free to visit the rooms
• You may practice lockers with your child