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4th
Grade Team
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Welcome to the
4th
Grade
Curriculum Night
Meet the Team
Sue Buckle, Kim Frampton, Beth Dibble, Nancy Hebert, and Sandi Klotz
• Starts Friday, August 24th and ends Monday, September 10th
No gift wrap, candy or other product sales The goal is to fundraise AND increase the love for reading in
students Great incentives and prizes for ALL students who
participate. There is no minimum amount required to participate 100% of all money collected goes directly to help Brisas This is the only planned fundraiser Information packets will be distributed Monday, August 20th
Fundraiser – 2012 Read-a-thon
Reading Anchor Standards
Students must read widely and deeply from among a broad range of high-quality, increasingly challenging literary and informational texts.
• Key Ideas and Details - What did the author say?
• Craft and Structure of Text – How did the author say it?
• Integration of Knowledge and Ideas - How to evaluate, use, go beyond what the author said.
• Range of Reading and Level of Text Complexity
Reading Instruction
• Reading is the most important subject • Harcourt Trophies
– Research-based, comprehensive program with emphasis on building and using skills
• Non-fiction and Fiction selections • Integrates spelling, language skills, and writing • Increase student confidence and competence
in reading • Become better critical readers and thinkers • Literature Studies incorporated throughout
the year
Vocabulary
• Each week’s reading selection will emphasize
6 to 8 vocabulary words for students to master
• These words are repeated in various activities and mini books throughout the week
• Students are expected to learn their meanings and use them in context
• Will be tested weekly as part of the
reading response test
• Weekly lessons focus on a phonetic or structural pattern
• 20 words and 5 challenge words
• Spelling tests will be each Friday
• First year to participate in school Spelling Bee
Spelling
Writing Anchor Standards
• Use writing as a way of offering and supporting opinions, demonstrating understanding of the subjects they are studying, and conveying real and imagined experiences and events.
• Learn to appreciate that a key purpose of writing is to communicate clearly to an external audience and they begin to adapt the form and content of their writing to accomplish a particular task and purpose.
• Develop the capacity to build knowledge on a subject through research projects and to respond analytically to literary and informational sources.
• Devote significant time and effort to writing, producing numerous pieces over short and extended time frames throughout the year.
Writing
• Increased rigor across the curriculum • Emphasis on reading/writing connection
and authentic writing experiences • Journal entries, personal reflections, literary
responses, and assigned types • Three Writing Strands
Writing Process Writing Elements Writing Applications
• Assessed with 6 Traits rubrics or content rubrics
Language Standards
• Demonstrate command of the conventions of standard English grammar, usage, and mechanics
• Use language to convey meaning effectively
• Apply knowledge of language (parts of speech)
to understand how language functions
• Determine the meaning of grade-appropriate words encountered through listening, reading, and media use and build working vocabulary
Math Standards
4th Grade Common Core Parent Training September 25, 5:30 – 6:30
• Standards focus on strong computation, problem solving, mathematical thinking
• Prerequisite fluency in basic addition, subtraction, multiplication, and division
Instruction will focus on these critical areas:
• Operations and Algebraic Thinking
• Number and Operations in Base Ten
• Number and Operations—Fractions
• Geometry & Measurement • Measurement and Data • Mathematical Practices (behaviors that lead to
fluency, application, and a deep understanding of the standards) – Make sense of problems and persevere in solving them – Reason abstractly and quantitatively – Construct viable arguments and critique the reasoning of others – Model with mathematics – Use appropriate tools strategically
Instructional Resources – Investigations in Number, Data, and Space – Scott Foresman- Addison Wesley
Science
• Investigations will follow the Inquiry Model
• Units of Study
– Electricity and Magnetism
– Water and Weather
– Animal Classification and Adaptation
– Renewable and Nonrenewable Energy Resources
Social Studies
• Major focus: ARIZONA
• Quarterly emphasis areas:
– Arizona’s Geography and People
– Settlement and Change
– Arizona’s Statehood
– Arizona’s Government and Economy
• Junior Achievement
• Arizona Weekly Studies Magazine
HEALTH
• Personal Health
• Food and Nutrition
• Guarding against Disease
• Medicines and Drugs
• Human Growth and Development and HIV/AIDS lessons will be taught in the spring.
Technology
Technology is used as a tool across the curriculum. Some of the programs students will use are:
– Word – PowerPoint – Excel – SmartBoard – Typing Agent – Pixie 2 – Share – Frames
Homework & Grading
• Check ParentVUE regularly to download homework and check weekly scores
http://sw.kyrene.org/site/default.aspx?PageID=1
• Report Cards – Behavior - progress indicators
– Academic areas - letter grades for major content areas and progress indicators for sub categories
Principal’s Honor Roll – all As
Gecko Honor Roll – all As and Bs
National Honor Society
Is a school-based program recognizing outstanding elementary students (4th & 5th grade only) and engaging them in meaningful development of leadership skills and service.
Students are identified after the first two quarters for possible selection in the Spring.
Qualifications include:
▪ Grades of all As or all As and only one B
▪ Demonstrated leadership/responsibility
in the classroom and community
Teacher: Mike Sissel
Focus on lifeskills,
leadership qualities,
character building
YELP
Youth Exemplifying Leadership Principles
School / Parent Partnership
We only get one chance to prepare
our students for a future that none
of us can possibly predict.
What are we going to do with that
one chance?
~Stephen Covey