2. Classroom Schedule Time 7:30-7:55Homeroom – DMM, DOL, DOG 8:00-9:25BLOCK 1 9:30-10:15SPECIALS 10:15-12:40 BLOCK 2 *Staggered Lunch and Recess Times Lunch 11:40-12:10 Carse 11:45-12:15 Ammons 11:40-12:20 Crowe Recess 12:10-12:30 Carse 12:15:12:35 Ammons 12:20-12:40 Crowe 12:40-2:00 BLOCK 3 2:00-2:15Clean-Up, Class Read Aloud, Transportation Review/Dismissal FOURTH GRADE SCHEDULE 2015-2016

3. Attendance Please have your child at school each morning by 7:45. Make school a priority. It is very important that children are at school everyday. Missed tests/classwork will be given when child returns to school. An absence will be marked unexcused unless the child brings a written note from home within five days upon returning to school.

4. Rules Expectations Located in Agenda HFES RULES I will be prepared to learn and respect the learning of others. I will behave safely at all times. I will show respect for myself, others, and property.

5. Responsibility is becoming more and more important. Assist your child in learning organizational skills. Assist with homework if needed but don’t do the work for your child. Have one place for items that need to go to school – lunch money, homework, book bag. Students are responsible for taking all books and items home each night that are needed for projects and homework. Students are not allowed to return to classrooms after the school day. Responsibility

6. Heading Name HR# Date Neatness Legible Written in pencil- ONLY Completion Homework must be complete at time due. Work Expectations PLEASE NO MECHANICAL PENCILS – adhere to supply list. Absentee Work pick up is the responsibility of the student to ask each teacher.

7. Curriculum

8. All About Ms. Ammons Taught for 19 years Bachelor’s Degree from Brenau University Master’s Degree from Piedmont College Education Specialist Degree from Piedmont College Teacher of the Year 2003 2005Who’s Who Among Students American Universities & Colleges

10. Reading Reading Textbook Chapter Books Skill Books A.R. Book Vocabulary Contract Reading Homework Monday due Thursday Media Center- every Thursday Computer Lab- Thursday

11. Language Arts Spelling Grammar Workbooks Journal Writing Write to Learn DOL – Daily Oral Language Daily Academic Vocabulary

12. DANIELLE CARSE Attended UGA! BS of Education - Go Dawgs! Taught 3 rd Grade last year and looped up to 4 th !! Attended 6 th Grade at HFES! Rides horses and loves the BEACH!

13. Social Studies Social Studies Textbook Landforms, Native Americans, Explorers, American History through 1850 Classroom Projects Handouts/ Journals Daily Geography -DOG- in the morning Social Studies Periodical

14. SCIENCE RULES!! Education is not the filling of a pail but the lighting of a FIRE. –William Butler Yeats Hands-On Minds-On Activities Science Everyday!! Ecosystems, Weather, Sound, Light, Forces and Motions, Space

15. Meet Mrs. Crowe Native Georgia Girl Married a Hickory Flat Native, Steve Have one son, Wheeler Dogs- Belle and Dallas Have 24 years of teaching experience. Bachelors in Middle Grade 4-8, Masters in Early Childhood, Specialist in Curriculum TOTY – 1994 and 2008 Scholar Teacher 2003 Golden Apple Award Winner 1999 Love to Travel, Sports, Football, & SHOPPING!

16. Math Whole Numbers, Place value and Rounding Multiplication and Division of Whole Numbers Measurement: Weight and Angles Geometric Figures, Plane Coordinates and Data Fractions and Decimals Algebra Show what we know

17. Math Curriculum Students will be following the State of Georgia Standards of Excellence for Math. This is a Common Core Focused Curriculum and a strong base of Math Concepts. INCLUDES: Numbers Base Ten and Operations Algebraic Thinking Numbers and Operations of Fractions Geometry Measurement and Data

18. MATH –MATIZED Daily Mental Math – completed in homeroom every morning Daily Mental Math Quiz – “The Baby QUIZ” every Friday Math Homework nightly in a packet to be collected on Friday. Math Journal completed in class weekly.

19. Thursday Folders Every Thursday Look over ALL papers Newsletter- weekly on Thursday Letters from the office Return folder on Friday…Please

20. School Info… **Please Join PTA… **COGAT Testing starts next week and will be a computerized format. ** Purchase a Yearbook

21. FOURTH GRADE FUN LEARNING TIME CAPSULES SPECIAL DAYS- STATE PARADE REWARD DAYS EVERY QUARTER FIELD TRIP IN DECEMBER to Cobb County Youth Museum Beta Club …we have a great year planned…. We are 4 th Grade Fabulous!!

22. Thank you for coming this evening! …Mister Rogers