1. Please support Davis Home and School!
Fourth Grade
Mrs. Pearce’s Class
Room B20
Davis School
Please support Davis Home and School!

2. About Mrs. Pearce Husband – Dan, 17 years
2 Children – Madeline, 14 and Sean, 12
Favorite Books – Walk Two Moons, Tuck Everlasting, Island of the Blue Dolphins
Favorite Vacation Spots – Ocean City, NJ, Disney World and the Outer Banks, NC
I love the Philadelphia Eagles, exercising, shopping, reading on the beach and watching movies.

3. Reading/Language Arts
Journeys Program – anthology, grammar, phonics, comprehension, writing, spelling, and vocabulary
Independent Reading – at home and in class, please have book travel to and from school and home
25 Book Goal – summer reading, guided reading, and independent reading count
Writer’s Notebook
Comprehension, Vocabulary, and Grammar Tests

4. Spelling Assessed in daily writing Homework from Reader’s Notebook
Usually follows along with a Journeys skill – vowel sounds, proper nouns, homophones, consonant sounds

5. Math Everyday Math 4 Student log in (homework agenda book)
Family letters for each unit
1 test for each unit
MJ – class work and Math Boxes
HL – homework book (SAW stands for “Show all work.”)
Timed tests – 4 minutes
connectED.mcgraw-hill.com - great resource for games, parent help, and forgotten homework

6. Social Studies First and Fourth marking period
Study guides come home before tests
Map skills
Pennsylvania Unit
U.S. Regions/Social Studies Alive
4 themes - Geography, History, Economy, and Politics
Very interactive - planning day tours, “climb” the Empire State Building steps, using assembly lines, “The Survival Game”

7. Science Second and Third marking periods Electricity and Magnetism
Earth Materials – Rocks and Minerals
No textbook – based on experiments, activities, and observations
Study guides come home before tests

8. PSSA Assessment Dates English Language Arts - April 3-7, 2017
Mathematics - April 24-28, 2017
Science - May1-5, 2017

9. Absences Attendance notes may now be submitted electronically!
Work or tests missed will be made up at recess when your child returns and/or sent home for extra homework.

10. Homework
Offer your child help with homework – fourth graders are not ready to be completely responsible for homework on their own. The work is harder!
Homework agenda book to be signed every night

11. A Few Items to Note
Scholastic Book Orders – Make Checks to “Scholastic Reading Club”
Walkers and car riders – please arrive by 8:30 to unpack and be ready for the start of school
Send money for the cafeteria in an envelope with your child’s name and number on it

12. If possible, please have your child eat breakfast at home
If possible, please have your child eat breakfast at home. Specials are right after announcements.
Please remember to go to the gym to sign up for November conferences.

13. Ask Your Child Ask your child, “What is the value of 4 in 24,367?”
Ask your child, “What is the difference between a story told in first person and third person point of view?”
Ask your child, “How would a pen be interesting to a geographer, historian, economist or political scientist?”

14. Don’t forget to look at your child’s fourth grade goal in the hallway.

15. Let’s have a great year. Thank you for coming tonight!