1. Welcome to River Gate Elementary’s Curriculum Night!

2. RGES and Class Expectations
Be Responsible
Be Respectful
Be Safe

3. Consequences and Rewards
*A verbal warning is always given first.
Warning
Time out to write a reflective paragraph about behavior.
Phone call home.
Office referral.
Rewards:
Praise
Feeling good about yourself
Stickers
Candy
Prize box

4. Writing Personal & Imaginative Narratives Poetry
Literary Essays: Writing about Reading
Memoirs
Argumentative/Persuasive Text
Spelling
Grammar
Cursive

5. GRADING SCALE A: B: C: D:
F: below 70

6. Literacy

7. North Carolina Objectives
Goal 1- WORD RECOGNITION/VOCABULARY
Apply enabling strategies and skills to read and write.
Goal 2- Comprehension
Apply strategies and skills to comprehend text that is read, heard, and viewed.
Goal 3- Connections
Make connections through the use of oral language, written language, and media and technology.
Goal 4- Products
Apply strategies and skills to create oral, written, and visual texts.
Goal 5- GRAMMAR & LANGUAGE CONVENTIONS
Apply grammar and language conventions to communicate effectively.

8. TEXTS IN GENRE Fiction- Legends, Novels, Folklore & Science fiction
Nonfiction- Autobiographies, Informational books, Diaries & Journals
Poetry - Concrete poems, Haiku
Drama- Skits, Plays

10. EOG Reading Practice Tips
Steps to Great Reading Comprehension!
1. Read anything above the title Read the title. 3. Read the questions and highlight key words Mark whether it is an "eye-ball" question (direct recall, can put finger on the answer in the passage) or a "thought bubble" question (have to be a detective to get answer by looking for clues in the passage) 5. Read the selection and highlight anything that helps you answer a question Look at the answer choices beginning with D and move up Eliminate answers until you have the best answer left Mark your answer choice.

11. Reading Comprehension Practice Web-sites
1) Website that teaches summarizing -
2) Reading Comprehension -
3) Finding Facts -
4) Reading Comprehension Worksheets -
5) Making Inferences and Drawing Conclusions - This is a GREAT site!
6) Drawing Conclusions and Making Inferences -

12. CCSS for MATH
The K-5 standards provide students with a solid foundation in whole numbers, addition, subtraction, multiplication, division, fractions and decimals—which help young students build the foundation to successfully apply more demanding math concepts and procedures, and move into applications.

13. Fourth Grade Standards
Operations and Algebraic Thinking
Number and Operations in Base Ten
Number and Operations-Fractions
Measurement and Data
Geometry

14. Standards of Mathematical Practice
Mathematically Proficient Students…
1. Make sense of problems and persevere in solving them.
2. Reason abstractly and quantitatively.
3. Construct viable arguments and critique the reasoning of others.
4. Model with mathematics.
5. Use appropriate tools strategically.
6. Attend to precision.
7. Look for and make use of structure.
8. Look for and express regularity in repeated reasoning

15. Math Major Concepts/Skills Number sense 0.01-99,999
Multiplication and division of multi-digit numbers
Perimeter and area
Transformations
Line graphs
Median, mode, and range
Variables in number sentences
Proportional reasoning
Students will solve relevant and authentic
problems using appropriate technology
and apply these concepts as well as those
developed in earlier years.

16. Math Concepts/Skills to Maintain
Whole number computation
Non-negative rational numbers
Length, time, capacity, and mass
Symmetry and congruence
Coordinate grids
Circle graphs
Permutations and
combinations

17. Accelerated Reader

18. Science 7 Units of Study Force and Motion Matter: Properties of Change
Energy: Conservation and Transfer
Earth in the Universe

19. Review of all previous units
Science cont.
Earth History
Ecosystems
Molecular Biology
Review of all previous units

20. Social Studies Our focus is the state of North Carolina.
Landforms, bodies of water, map skills.
Natural resources in NC, and cultural and physical characteristics of NC regions.
Early people and major landmarks,
State symbols and history.

21. Agendas
Please make sure you sign your child’s Agenda each night. If they do not write anything down, please do not sign.
It is their responsibility to get it to you to sign. Hold them accountable.
Your child should be reading every night for 30 min. in his/her AR book and recording it on their nightly reading log. Please sign this as well.

22. Thanks for all you do to support your child!