1. Curriculum Presentation Fourth Grade Team
Curriculum Presentation
Fourth Grade Team
Mrs. Schneider, Mrs. Schmalstieg, Ms. Webb

2. School-wide Guidelines
The 3 B’s!
Be safe
Be responsible
Be respectful

3. Clip Chart!
This school- wide behavior system emphasizes positive behavior based on the 3 Bs.

4. Homework 40 minutes per day Reading (80 minutes per week) Math
The expectation for your child entering 4th grade: Fluency of multiplication and division facts 0 through 10.
3. Spelling words

5. Graded Work
Graded work and class work will be sent home every Friday in the front pocket of your student’s binder. Newsletters will be sent via . Please make sure we have your current . The newsletter includes:
What we covered in class (in all curriculum areas)
Anything upcoming that you should be aware of
Please take out all your student’s work and review it with your child…this is yours to keep.

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9. Reading Trophies: Research based instruction in phonemic
awareness, phonics, fluency, vocabulary, spelling, and text comprehension.
We will incorporate the following into our reading instruction:
Whole Group
Small Group (ability based)
Partner Reading
Literature Studies
S.Q.U.I.R.T. (silent reading)

10. Reading Skills
Reading skills that we work very hard on in fourth grade are:
Making inferences
Main idea/ Summarizing
Cause and effect
Comprehension
Sequencing
Author’s Purpose

12. WRITING PROCESS
Prewriting
Draft
Revision
Editing
Publishing

13. Genres of Writing
Narrative
Opinion
Informative/ Explanatory

14. LANGUAGE Analogies Context Clues Figurative / Literal Language
Prefixes / Suffixes / Root Words
Antonyms / Synonyms / Homonyms
Figurative / Literal Language
Types of Sentences
Simple and Compound Sentences
Subject and Predicate
Quotation Marks
Commas
Parts of Speech
Contractions
Fact and Opinion

15. Spelling
Kyrene School District has adopted the Trophies spelling program to go along with the reading program. This focuses on word families and story words.
Each week:
Each Monday, students will be given a Spelling Preview where they are given word family words. We will correct it together .They will take home this list of words in their home binder. Challenge words will be given to students who get 0 or 1 wrong on the preview.
Spelling homework: practice the words using Spelling City at or by another method of your choice.
Each Friday there will be a Spelling Test!

16. MATHEMATICS Focus On: Multiples and factors
Prime, composite, and square numbers
Applying multiplication and division strategies to solve problems with larger numbers
Place value understanding for multi-digit numbers
Understanding of fraction equivalence, operations, and connections to decimals
Solving problems using multiplicative comparisons
Solving problems by applying place value to multiplicative thinking
Applying understanding of fraction equivalence and operations
Exploring and analyzing the properties of 2-dimensional and 3-dimensional shapes
Investigating data analysis
Generating and analyzing patterns

17. Social Studies Learning Goals :
I can understand that people in Arizona have always been affected by and changed the environment.
I can understand that exploration in Arizona resulted in the founding of European colonies and changes for the local Native Americans.
I can understand and explain the events that led to Arizona becoming a state.
I can understand how and why the people of Arizona are responsible for their community, government and economy.

18. SCIENCE Scientific Process Making Observations Creating Hypothesis
Test Hypothesis/ Collect Data
Drawing Conclusions
Communicate Results

19. Scientific Units of Study
Animal Classification and Adaptations
Water and Weather
Electricity and Magnetism
Renewable and Nonrenewable Sources

20. Kyrene Educational Resources
Kyrene.org > students > educational resources

21. Parents, Students, Teachers ……………………… Together we will work as a TEAM
to make this school year a positive one for our students.