1. Welcome to Curriculum Night!
Fourth grade

2. Daily Schedule 8:00 – 8:20 Arrive, morning work 8:20 – 9:50 Math
9:50 – 10:20 Read Aloud
10:20-10:50 Recess
10:50 – 12:30 Language arts
12:30 – 1:00 Lunch
1:05 – 1:50 Encore
1:50 – 2:10 Pack Up/Homework
2:00 – 2:45 Science or Social Studies
2:45 Dismissal

3. Arrival & Morning Work
Students need to be unpacked and ready to learn by 8:20 (includes getting breakfast, using bathroom, etc.)
Morning Math
Must be done each morning.
Contains Review
Any extra time is to be used for unfinished work or reading silently

4. Math: Operations and Algebraic Thinking
Students will:
Use the four operations with whole numbers to solve problems.
Gain familiarity with factors, multiples, prime and composite numbers.
Generate and analyze patterns.

5. Math: Number and Operations in Base 10
Students will:
Generalize place value understanding for multi-digit whole numbers less than or equal to 1,000,000.
Use place value understanding and properties of operations to perform multi-digit arithmetic.

6. Number and Operations in Fractions
Students will:
Extend understanding of fraction equivalence and ordering.
Build fractions from unit fractions by applying and extending previous understandings of operations on whole numbers.
Understand decimal notation for fractions, and compare decimal fractions.

7. Measurement and Data Students will:
Solve problems involving measurement and conversion of measurements from a larger unit to a smaller unit.
Represent and interpret data.
Geometric measurement: understand concepts of angle and measure angles.

8. Geometry Students will: Draw and identify lines and angles.
Classify shapes by properties of their lines and angles.

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LEARN MULTIPLICATION FACTS!!!

10. Reading Reading Language Arts THEME Novel studies Nonfiction articles
Read Works
Close reading
Notice & Note Signposts
Language Arts
Wordly Wise
Writing as an ENCORE class
State writing rubric for pieces that have gone through the entire writing process
Spelling

11. Reading Literature
Refer to details in text Determine meaning of words/phrases in text
Describe character, setting, or event in depth
Determine theme
Summarize the text
Differences between poems, drama and prose
Point of View (1st/3rd person)
Compare/Contrast themes and topics and patterns of events.

12. Reading Informational Texts
Refer to details in text
Main Idea/Key details
Summarize the text
Describe text structure
Compare/Contrast firsthand and secondhand accounts of same topic
Interpret info. presented visually, orally, or quantitatively.
Explain how author uses reasons/evidence to support text.

13. How can we help?
Read, read, read!!

14. Science Quarter 1 Quarter 2 Quarter 3 Quarter 4
Ecosystems/Animal Adaptations
Molecular Biology (nutrition)
Quarter 2
Earth in the Universe (moon phases)
Earth History (fossils)
Quarter 3
Matter: Properties and Changes (includes rocks and minerals)
Quarter 4
Forces and Motion
Energy: Conservation & Transfer (includes electricity)

15. Social Studies All about North Carolina! Personal Financial Literacy
Exploration & Colonization
Migration & Settlement
Constitution & Government
State Growth
State Development
State Symbols
Personal Financial Literacy
Global awareness as a 21st century skill

16. Homework Policy Goals:
Reinforce skills taught in class
Provide additional time for practice/activities that don’t require a teacher to be present
Teach responsibility
Keep parents in the loop
Graded and weighted differently that classwork assignments
Consequences for missing homework assignments
Homework passes and Journals

17. PowerSchool/Parent Assist
Great way for parents to stay informed about grades
Please be aware:
Categories are weighted
Curving/dropping/revising grades

18. Grading Policy 10-point scale
A (Working independently and mastery at a high level)
B (Working independently and above average mastery of content)
C (Expected progress of grade level content)
D (Below grade level progress, difficulty working independently)
59 and below F (Not meeting grade level expectations, unable to work independently)
Grades are weighted as follows:
Tests 25% Quizzes 25% Classwork 30%
Projects 10% Participation 10%

19. Field Trips Raleigh: October 28 (early departure)
Hiddenite: April 29 (regular departure)
In school “trips”: Bird Rehabilitation, Duke Energy Program, Museum of Anthropology, Brenner’s Fit Kids Program
Must be a Level 2 volunteer to chaperone!

20. BYOD
Goal is for students to be able to bring their own devices starting in December
Devices must have Wi-fi connectivity to work in the classroom
Students are not required to bring a device
Students are responsible for any devices that they do choose to bring (classroom stays locked when we aren’t in it)

21. Housekeeping Please pay $15 class fee as soon as possible.
Check your each week for the Weekly Update.
or call me with any questions.
Tuesday Folders
Planners
Conferences
MES E-news

22. Questions?