1. Ms. Smith’s FOURTH Grade Champions!

2. forms
Green “Serve the Pack” form: Return to office or place in little basket on the rectangle table at the back of the classroom to be placed in PTO raffle for gift cards! Date and task: 8/10/17 Curriculum Night. White Colina STEM Raffle Ticket: Bring to DiscoveRoom to place it in a drawing for a science kit! (Put your on the form to enable being contacted in the event that your name is drawn.) Yellow Parent Vue form: Stalk your child’s grades! Complete this form and place it in the little basket on the rectangular table at the back of the classroom. White 8 ½” x 11” paper folded vertically on right hand side: Please guess your child’s answers to the silly questions. No peeking! You may write a little note to your fourth grader on the back, if you like. 

3. Arizona Career and College Ready Standards
Curriculum
Arizona Career and College Ready Standards

4. Multiplication to three digits times two digits
MATH FOCUS AREAS
Place value
Multiplication to three digits times two digits
Division single digit divisor
Addition and Subtraction
Word Problems
Fractions: Comparing, reducing, adding and subtracting with like denominators, mixed and improper fractions

5. MATHEMATICAL BEHAVIORS
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.
Attend to precision.
Look for and make use of structure.
Look for and express regularity in repeated reasoning.

6. ELA FOCUS AREAS
Demonstrate Phonics and Word Recognition
Demonstrate Fluency
Demonstrate Comprehension of Informational Text
Respond to text in writing in a variety of ways
Demonstrate Comprehension and Collaboration when listening
Present Knowledge and Ideas through speaking
Demonstrate conventions of Standard English when writing or speaking
Acquire and use vocabulary

7. Science & social studies
Weather
Electricity
Renewable & Nonrenewable resources
The Scientific Process (main focus)
Arizona History
Arizona Geography

8. KEYBOARDING Skills
Keyboarding skills are in important part of our new common core standards. Students will be expected to type answers in text boxes and take tests and quizzes online this year. Please help your student practice correct keyboarding skills at home, and I will help them at school. We will be using the program Typing Agent to practice these skills at school. They may also use this for home practice.

9. STUDENT PLANNERS

10. GRADING SCALE
% A
80-89% B
70-79% C
60-69% D
50-59% F

11. SMITH HANDBOOK

12. WEEKLY UPDATE - FRONT

13. WEEKLY UPDATE - BACK

14. Recess/Snack
We have the opportunity for a “working” snack at approximately 9:30 am. Your child is encouraged to bring a healthy snack to eat at this time. Healthy snacks include: fruit, vegetables, yogurt, crackers, cheese sticks, applesauce, etc HANDBOOK p. 26

15. Birthdays!
We like birthdays, too! However, district policy prohibits balloons, cakes, candy, flowers, etc. If they are delivered they will be kept in the office. Students may bring in pencils, stickers, or other non-edible items to distribute if they’d like.
Also prohibited is the distribution of invitations or gifts at school. Please make certain your family is included in the school directory.

16. Be Respectful Be Responsible Be Safe Be Kind
COOL COYOTE CODE
Be Respectful
Be Responsible
Be Safe
Be Kind
Love and Logic “One Rule”:
“Feel free to do anything that does not cause a problem for yourself or others.”

17. Homework Policy
Kyrene’s Fourth Grade policy is that students are to complete an hour of homework, three days a week.
Fourth grade students are expected to read for 20 minutes a day. They receive 20 minute additional math, reading, science, social studies, and health assignments that will be recorded in their Student Planners three days each week.

18. Parent Volunteers
Cool Coyotes – This can be done at home. It would involve writing each student’s name, “Smith,” and a number for a month on a “Cool Coyote” slip.
DiscoveRoom! – Students love visiting our STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering, Math) inspired DiscoverRoom!! There are so many cool and intriguing materials housed here. We must have TWO volunteers each day this is open.
Watch DOGS and PTO – The PTO is always seeking volunteers for our many community events. A goal of the Watch DOGS program is to increase the presence of dads on campus. If you are interested in this, please let me know what TYPES of things you would like to DO at school.

19. Remind.com
If you haven’t already, please to to receive text updates from our class!