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Welcome 4 th Grade Parents!

Welcome 4 th Grade Parents!. Starring:. Mrs. Prest , Mrs. Ibsen, Mrs. Clarke, Mrs. Spink, Mrs. Hassell, Mrs. Festa, and Mrs. Phillips. Extracurricular Activities. Before School Band In School Chorus Lunchtime Enrichment (Robotics, Scoop Group, Scratch Animators). Testing.

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Welcome 4 th Grade Parents!

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  1. Welcome 4th Grade Parents!

  2. Starring: Mrs. Prest, Mrs. Ibsen, Mrs. Clarke, Mrs. Spink, Mrs. Hassell, Mrs. Festa, and Mrs. Phillips

  3. Extracurricular Activities • Before School Band • In School Chorus • Lunchtime Enrichment (Robotics, Scoop Group, Scratch Animators)

  4. Testing • Map (Twice a year) • PARCC (Twice a year) • Science NECAP • NAEP (National Test)

  5. Field Trips • The Christmas Carol (Trinity Theatre) • State House Tour and Mock Legislation Session • South County Museum • Newport

  6. 4th Grade End of The Year Activities • Talent Show • Yearbook • Orientation at the Pier School • Remembrance Day

  7. Digital Literacy in Action

  8. Digital Literacy • Partnership with URI • Teaching Digital Literacy • Teaching Good Digital Citizenship (Home and School) Helpful Website: https://www.commonsensemedia.org/educators/parent-media-education

  9. Mrs. Ibsen and Mrs. Clarke Reading and Writing

  10. ELA Time In The Classroom • Reading and writing workshop daily • Mini-lesson followed by teacher-guided small groups and independent practice • Book Discussions amongst peers and as a class

  11. ELA and The Common Core • 1.  There will be a balance between fiction and nonfiction reading. • 2. We will encourage students to provide evidence to support their answers to questions.  • In addition to responding correctly to a question, we are also going to ask our students : "How do you know?"  • Students are encouraged to look back into a story to provide specific support for an answer. • 3. In Grades 2-4, students will be challenged with text that is slightly above their reading level.  We will further develop their vocabulary through discussion and wide reading.

  12. Common Core Reading Focus • Pause and Ponder • (Stop and Think, Question) • Synthesize • (Author’s Purpose, Text Structure) • Communication • (Discussing texts using text evidence)

  13. Common Core Writing Focus • Three Types of Writing • Informational/ Explanatory • (Science Writing) • 2. Opinion • 3. Narrative • Writing Frames to Scaffold Learning • (Used as needed) • Use of thinking maps to organize thinking and details prior to writing • Revision with support

  14. Thinking Maps Sequence Map Box and T Tree Map Cause and Effect

  15. Mrs. Hassell andMrs. FestaScience

  16. Motion & Design Blueprint Standard Vehicle

  17. Land & Water

  18. Magnetism & Electricity

  19. Mrs. SpinkMath

  20. Common Core 4th Grade • Math Focus: • Fluently add and subtract within a million • Using place value strategies to multiply and divide • Fraction and decimal equivalence • Add, subtract, and multiply fractions • Measurement and Data • Basic fact fluency • (Instant recall by the end of fourth grade) • Multi-step problem solving

  21. Resources • Dreambox • Parent Newsletter • X-tra Math • Learnzillion

  22. Questions?

  23. Thank You For Coming ! We Appreciate Your Support!

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