2. Welcome to Fourth Grade! Mrs. Weber

4. Professional Experience 21 Years of Teaching Taught Grades 3 & 4 Clayton Accelerated/Gifted Cohort Life-long Learner

5. Communication *Email sherylweber@claytonschools.net Voicemail 854-6337 Meramec Current Fourth Grade News Friday Folders Weekly Reflections Family Letters

6. Friday Folders Graded papers & Important notes Sign inside paper and write comments Return on Monday

7. Character Development Meramec Five Essential Fifty Five Class Meetings

8. Meramec Activities Children Character Council Scouts Computer Club Chess Club Choir Parents PTO Parent-Principal Dialogue Community Book Study

9. Mathematics District purchased online version, so that students will be able to access from home. http://www.greatsource.com/singaporemath

10. Reading Independent Reading Literature Discussions Library Reading Awards www.lexile.com Nightly Reading- 20 Minutes

11. Writing Writer’s Workshop Writing Process Six Traits of Writing –Ideas –Organization –Word Choice –Sentence Fluency –Voice –Conventions

12. Social Studies Missouri –Geography –History –Government –Economics Jefferson City Field Trip April/May St. Charles Field Trip November History Museum

13. Science- FOSS Hands-on! Matter & Energy Structures of Life Magnetism & Electricity Earth Materials Explore on www.fossweb.com www.fossweb.com

14. Spelling Create individualized list on Monday Sentence or definitions Study nightly Test on Friday

15. Fourth Grade Projects Map in a Month Famous Missourian Wax Museum Jefferson City technology project MO Reading Circle Awards

16. Cursive/Keyboarding Cursive is practiced in Fourth Grade Keyboarding- 15 words per minute by the end of the year New online keyboarding-Type to Learn 4

17. Tests/Quizzes 2-5 Days notice Study Guide/Spiral Notebook

18. Homework PLANNERS! Given Monday- Thursday Unfinished work from the day goes home Weekend Workout

19. Grading Exceeds Expectations Expected Developing Tests, quizzes, and some class work with be graded by percentages Some class work is graded with percent or scored to correspond with report card.

20. 4-W’s Website www.claytonschools.net/meramec

21. Out of School Activities I’d love to come, just get me a schedule!

22. Reminders! Specialists are in their classrooms Respond to your child’s letter… Class donations/Pick up an apple Conference sign up on line