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Welcome to Fantastic Fourth Grade 2018-2019

Welcome to Fantastic Fourth Grade 2018-2019. Helpful Information for You and Your Fourth Grader. Let Us Introduce Ourselves. ELA Instructional Team: Mrs. Milam – Reading & Writing Mrs. Powers - Reading, Writing & Social Studies Mrs. Arnold – Social Studies & Science

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Welcome to Fantastic Fourth Grade 2018-2019

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  1. Welcome to Fantastic Fourth Grade2018-2019 Helpful Information for You and Your Fourth Grader

  2. Let Us Introduce Ourselves ELA Instructional Team: • Mrs. Milam – Reading & Writing • Mrs. Powers - Reading, Writing & Social Studies • Mrs. Arnold – Social Studies & Science • Mrs. Roark- Math & Science • Mrs. Smith- Math

  3. INDEPENDENT READING MAKES A DIFFERENCE

  4. Reading Workshop • Mini-Lesson • Independent Reading • Teacher Read- Aloud • Reading Units of Study in 4th grade: • Launching Reader’s Workshop • Genre • Character, Plot and Main Idea • Questioning and Inferencing • Summarizing and Generalizing • Making Connections Between Texts • Research • Critical Thinking Strategies • Non-fiction/Expository Reading Strategies

  5. Supporting your child at home… • Students are to read a minimum of 20 minutes daily. • Parents may read with your child, and we encourage you to talk to your child about what they have read.

  6. Writing: Compositions • Compositions: We Focus on Personal Narrative and Expository Writing in 4th Grade. They are tested on Expository Writing. Students need to: • Plan a first draft that conveys the intended meaning by generating ideas through a variety of strategies (brainstorming, graphic organizers, etc). • Develop a draft by categorizing ideas and organizing them into detailed paragraphs. • Revise drafts for coherence, organization, use of simple/compound sentences and to clarify meaning by adding, deleting or rearranging ideas to maintain focus. • Edit drafts for grammar, mechanics, and spelling • Publish final draft in response to feedback from peers, teachers, and after analysis/evaluation of rubric.

  7. Writing: Revise/Edit • Students need to be able to apply revising/editing strategies to evaluate the writing of others. They should: • Use and understand the function of the following parts of speech: verbs (helping, present tense, past tense, future tense), nouns (singular/plural, common/proper), adjectives, adverbs, correlative conjunctions, transition words phrases. • Use complete simple and compound sentences with correct subject/verb agreement. • Spell commonly used homophones (e.g., their, there, they’re; to, two, too). • Use prepositions and prepositional phrases to convey location, time, direction, or to provide details. • Establish clear central ideas or introductions and concluding statements. • Differentiate among fragments, run-on sentences, complete sentences and sentences that need to be combined.

  8. Resources for Home Support Writing: chompchomp.com readwritethink.org writingfix.com Reading: readworks.com studyzone.org

  9. Math In math, we will be working with large and small group instruction. Some of the topics that we will be teaching are: • Data - Place Value to the billions • 2 x 2 Multiplication - Long Division • Decimals to the hundredths • place • Fractions - Converting Measurement • Measuring Angles - Geometry- angels It is extremely important that your child knows his/her facts. They need to know addition, subtraction, multiplication, and division facts. This will help in every area of math.

  10. Science Units of Study • Safety • Scientific Process • Properties of Matter • Mixtures & Solutions • Forms of Energy • Force & Motion • Shadows, Seasons, Moon, Tides, Water Cycle • Weather • Weathering/Erosion/Depo-sition • Properties of Soil • Natural Resources • Life Cycle • Inherited Traits/Learned Behavior • Adaptations • Food Chains/Food Webs • Promotional Ads/Research Scientists

  11. Social Studies-Texas History In 4th grade Social Studies is all about Texas history. Topics we cover are: • Citizenship • Texas Government • Celebrate Freedom Week • Map Skills, Geography and Regions of Texas • Early Texans and Other Civilizations • European Explorers and Missions • Texas Colonization • The Texas Revolution and the Republic of Texas • Civil War and Reconstruction • Texas Cattle Kingdom

  12. Accessing Online Textbooks • 4th grade math and social studies: • Go to apps.allenisd.org • Students use their school computer login information • Click on Pearson Realize icon to access both social studies and math books.

  13. Communication/Agenda Every day your child will bring home his or her agenda. Please check it for communication from us. Students will have a behavior chart stapled in the front of the agenda. Please sign if there is a note from a teacher. We will be sending home a weekly Tuesday folder. In the folder you will find graded papers and any notes from the school or district. We will also send a weekly email newsletter with our goals, important dates, items to bring, etc

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