welcome 4 th grade parents!

Welcome 4th Grade Parents!

Starring:

Mrs. Prest, Mrs. Ibsen, Mrs. Clarke, Mrs. Spink,

Mrs. Hassell, Mrs. Festa, and Mrs. Phillips

Extracurricular Activities

• Before School Band

• In School Chorus

• Lunchtime Enrichment (Robotics, Scoop Group, Scratch Animators)

Testing• Map (Twice a year)• PARCC (Twice a year)• Science NECAP

• NAEP (National Test)

Field Trips• The Christmas Carol

(Trinity Theatre)• State House Tour and Mock

Legislation Session• South County Museum

• Newport

4th Grade End of The Year Activities

• Talent Show• Yearbook

• Orientation at the Pier School• Remembrance Day

Digital Literacy in Action

Digital Literacy• Partnership with URI

• Teaching Digital Literacy• Teaching Good Digital Citizenship

(Home and School)

Helpful Website:https://www.commonsensemedia.org/educators/

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ELA Time In The Classroom

• Reading and writing workshop daily

• Mini-lesson followed by teacher-guided small

groups and independent practice

• Book Discussions amongst peers and as a class

ELA and The Common Core

• 1.  There will be a balance between fiction and nonfiction reading.

•  • 2. We will encourage students to

provide evidence to support their answers to questions. 

•  • In addition to responding correctly to

a question, we are also going to ask our students : "How do you know?" 

•  • Students are encouraged to look

back into a story to provide specific support for an answer.

•  • 3. In Grades 2-4, students will be

challenged with text that is slightly above their reading level.  We will further develop their vocabulary through discussion and wide reading.

• Pause and Ponder(Stop and Think, Question)

• Synthesize(Author’s Purpose, Text Structure)

• Communication(Discussing texts using text evidence)

Common Core Reading Focus

Common Core Writing Focus

• Three Types of Writing1. Informational/ Explanatory

(Science Writing)2. Opinion

3. Narrative

• Writing Frames to Scaffold Learning(Used as needed)

• Use of thinking maps to organize thinking and details prior to writing

• Revision with support

Thinking Maps

Sequence Map Box and T

Cause and Effect Tree Map

Mrs. Hassell and

Mrs. Festa

Science

Blueprint Standard Vehicle

Motion & Design

Land & Water

Magnetism & Electricity

Mrs. SpinkMath

Common Core 4th Grade Math Focus:

• Fluently add and subtract within a million

• Using place value strategies to multiply and divide

• Fraction and decimal equivalence• Add, subtract, and multiply fractions

• Measurement and Data • Basic fact fluency

(Instant recall by the end of fourth grade)

• Multi-step problem solving

Resources•Dreambox

• Parent Newsletter• X-tra Math• Learnzillion

Questions?

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We Appreciate Your Support!