1. Welcome to Curriculum Night!!
Ms. Robinette’s
4th Grade Class

2. Flow of the Day Arrival and Morning Message Morning Meeting
Reader’s Workshop and Guided Reading
Writer’s Workshop
Interactive Read Aloud
Specials- Drama, Music, Spanish, STEAM, PE, Art, Chess
Social Studies

3. Reader’s Workshop
5- 7 minute Mini-lesson each day with active student involvement
Read Aloud for about 10 minutes
Students are expected to know the routine of Daily 5 and follow it independently.
I will work with guided reading groups during this time.
Students are to read books according to the genre we are currently studying.
At home: you should have authentic conversations about what you read with your child.

4. The Daily 5 Read to Self Read to Someone Word Work Work on Writing
Listen to Reading
Guided Reading Group with Ms. Robinette
I-Ready/No red ink using technology

5. 4th Grade Reading Units
Launching the reader’s workshop & its’ expectations
Deepening Understanding of characters through historical fiction
Summarizing & thinking critically with the use of supporting details
Becoming an expert on a topic using non-fiction reading skills
Exploring Historical Fiction
Developing reading strategies to read critically and think deeply
Alternating class research and and test taking strategies to maintain student interest

6. 5th Grade Reading Units The Reader in You, Developing Characters
Character-A-Palooza: Deepening Understanding of Character
Just the Facts Man: Reading and Identifying Information
He Said, She Said: Different Perspectives
Exploring Fantasy
Investigating Multiple Texts and Interpreting Themes
Gathering Facts
Extra! Extra! Tell All About It: Working On Key Ideas and Details, Range of Reading, and Structure

7. Forty Book Challenge
Track what you read at home by exploring the different genres
Every time you finish a book, mark off the appropriate square
Once you get all forty crossed off, a parent should sign it and then bring it in for a special surprise!
The purpose of this is to broaden the types of books you read if you are used to reading only one type of book

8. Writer’s Workshop
5- 7 minute Mini-lesson each day with active student involvement
Conferencing will be used to help individual students develop stronger writing skills
Students will be introduced to and compose a variety of writing with a beginning focus on .narratives
Other units of study include informative writing, research writing, and opinion writing

9. 4th Grade Writing Units Taking Charge as a Writer
Diving Into Narrative Writing
Research Writing (as a group and independently)
Opinion Writing
Revisiting of Writing Genres

10. 5th Grade Writing Units Establishing a Writer’s Workshop
Personal Narrative to Memoir
Using Opinions to Persuade Others
Fantasy Writing
Interpretative Writing
Informational Writing: Research Reports

11. 4th Grade Social Studies
Story of North Carolina
North Carolina Regions
Starting a Colony
Creating a State
North Carolina Government
People and Culture of North Carolina
Important People of the Past
WILLIAMSBURG, VA!

12. 5th Grade Social Studies
Exploring the United States
The American People
Early Life in the East and West
Connections Across Continents
The American Revolution
A Growing Nation
War
Expansion and Change

13. Homework Language Arts Read for 15-20 minutes (chart in reading log)
See assigned homework sheet on what to write about in reading journal
Spelling and Vocabulary (lists will be passed out every Monday, with a quiz on Friday)
There will also be a brief writing assignment each night to reinforce what we are working on in class

14. Assessments
Teacher made assessments after skills are taught/ unit is completed
Observations
Spelling and vocabulary tests on Fridays
I-Ready

15. Field Trip Information
We will visit the local library once a month (usually the third Friday of every month) to pick out books that match up with what we are learning in Reader’s Workshop
We will also have one additional monthly field trip!
September- Stagville
October- State Capital/Governor’s Mansion
November- Theater in Durham
December- Art Museum
January- Planetarium
February- Theater in Durham
March- History Museum
April- Williamsburg (3 day trip)!
May- Meredith College

16. Hope Reigns Community Project
Takes place in March
Provides comfort to hurting children and their families by providing one-on-one sessions between caring leaders and rescued horses
See for more information

17. ???Questions??? Time for answering questions…
If we don’t get to your question, write on index card and I will answer in the next newsletter or via .
me anytime!