starring: mrs. prest, mrs. ibsen, mrs. clarke, mrs. spink, mrs. hassell, mrs. festa, and mrs....
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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/
parent-media-education
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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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