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What to Expect in 4th Grade

Ms. Azze, Ms. Figari, Ms. Firestone & Ms. Krasne

+School PoliciesSnack- Please provide a healthy snack that can be eaten

neatly and while working- If there is a severe allergy in your classroom, you

will be notified immediately- No glass bottles can be sent to school- No candy for snack (please!)

Bathroom- Please discuss with your student the importance

of only asking to use the bathroom when it is NECESSARY

- Bathroom time is typically given when it is snack time

Birthday PartiesWe are happy to celebrate your child’s birthday in school for 15 minutes (as per school policy)Please have everything individually portioned and ready to serve

+Readiness Skills: Student IndependenceIndependence- Ability to unpack, turn in homework,

copy down homework and pack up - Have pencils ready to work for the

whole day

- Following directions when given to a whole class

- Scan the room to follow with appropriate student behaviors

- Taking responsibility for their actions and consequences

+Speaking and Listening

Students will be expected to:- speak at an audible volume

- Address an audience

- Maintain appropriate body language in small group and whole class conversations

- Speak in complete thoughts

- Connect their thoughts to what has already been presented

- Listen to and add on as the conversation progresses

+Readiness Skills: Reading

Reading- Reading stamina for at least 30

minutes each night and in the classroom

- Monitor when to book shop and maintain baggies

- Setting appropriate goals, getting to the end of the chapter

+Readiness Skills: Writing

Writing- Writing in complete sentences

- Building cohesive paragraphs

- Editing and checking work before saying “I am done!”

- Understanding the use of punctuation

+Readiness Skills: Math

Math- Fluency with skip counting and using

a number line

- Fluency with addition, subtraction, and multiplication facts

- Showing work and answering in a complete sentence

+Curriculum Pacing: Expeditionary Learning

Module 1 – Becoming a Close Reader and Writing to Learn: Oral Tradition, Symbolism, Building Community.

Module 2 – Researching to Build Knowledge and Teaching Others: Interdependent Roles in Colonial Times

Module 3 – Considering Perspectives and Supporting Opinions: Simple Machines: Force and Motion

Module 4- Susan B. Anthony: The Suffrage Movement , and the Importance of Voting

(tentative: based 2014-2015 materials)

+Curriculum Pacing: Math

 GO Math!4th Grade Math Curriculum PacingEach Chapter is about 8-13 lessonsChapters begin with a “Show What You Know”Chapters include mid-chapter checkpoint assessment and end of unit assessmentChapters include word problem exposure and challenge problems Critical Area 1: Place Value and Operations with Whole Numbers September - December Critical Area 2: Fractions and Decimals January - March Critical Area 3: Geometry, Measurement and Data April - June Additional ResourcesExemplars

+Curriculum Pacing: Social Studies

Unit 1: Geography of New York State

Unit 2: Native Americans, First Inhabitants of New York State

Unit 3: Colonial and Revolutionary Periods

Unit 4: Freedom and The New Nation: Federal, State and Local Government

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Questions?