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Welcome to Curriculum Night

Welcome to Curriculum Night. Mr. Nickel 2011-2012. Tonight’s Topics. Curriculum Focus Materials Used Classroom Environment: Star of the Week/Classroom Meetings/Class Jobs My Philosophy Homework/Formative Assessment/21 st Century Skills/Cooperative Learning( Kagan ).

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Welcome to Curriculum Night

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  1. Welcome to Curriculum Night Mr. Nickel 2011-2012

  2. Tonight’s Topics • Curriculum Focus • Materials Used • Classroom Environment: Star of the Week/Classroom Meetings/Class Jobs • My Philosophy • Homework/Formative Assessment/21st Century Skills/Cooperative Learning(Kagan)

  3. Fourth Grade Curriculum • Math • Reading • Writing • Social Studies • Science • Spelling

  4. Math Common Core Standards

  5. Math • In June 2010, Illinois formally adopted new learning standards in Math based on Common Core. • They are a set of clear rigorous standards to ensure students graduate high school prepared for college and careers in the 21st century. • List of the standards can be found at http://www.corestandards.com. • Focus in early grades on number and numeration. Real world application and problem solving skills used. • Parent Resources can be found at http://www.isbe.net/common_core/htmls/resources.htm#parent • K-5 Student Profile of Progress which is given quarterly has been aligned with these new standards. • Essential Understandings and Questions are specific to each unit.

  6. Math Practices Make sense of problems and persevere in solving them. Reason abstractly and quantitatively. Construct viable arguments and critique the reasoning of others. Model with mathematics. Use appropriate tools strategically. Attend to precision. Look for and make use of structure. Look for and express regularity in repeated reasoning.

  7. Math: Real Life Application • Build Your Own Snowman. • Design a Golf Course Hole. • Design a fish tank/stock it with fish. • Plan a classroom party. • Find out which TV is the better buy. • Explore geometry at Disney World. • Plan a pizza party for our classroom.

  8. Reading Growing as Readers

  9. Harcourt Reading Series • Offers a variety of stories. • Each story has students focus on using a specific reading skill. • Students learn the genres of the stories

  10. Daily 5 • Read to Self • Read to Someone • Listen to Reading • Word Study • Work on Writing These are used to build the stamina of a reader.

  11. Other Reading Activities Reader’s Theater Focuses on building the student’s reading fluency, using expression, as well as actions to support what they are reading. Literature Circles Students discuss novels in small groups looking at key elements and using reading strategies to help them better understand what they are reading.

  12. Other Reading • Songs • TV Commercials • Time for Kids • Guided Reading • Calvin and Hobbes • Different Kinds

  13. Writing Writing for Audience and Purpose

  14. Welcome to Twenty Days of Writing • Allows students to see that writing is a process that is on-going. • Students become the authors of the classroom. • Introduces students to the traits of writing.

  15. Wonderful Writing • Six Traits of Writing/RegieRoutman • Mountain Language • Writer’s Notebook • Journals • Taking Notes/Using research to write a piece

  16. Writing • Become an “expert” when writing about a science topic of your choice. • Pretend a classroom item can talk and use personification to create a riddle. • Be an editor of the newspaper in the 1800’s and report on Naper Settlement.

  17. Come Along for the Adventure • Improve the use of conventions. • Use personification, alliteration, and onomatopoeia to blow the reader’s socks off. • Learn how to organize ideas to produce a quality piece of writing.

  18. Science To Infinity and Beyond

  19. What’s Going On? • Determine what each of the mystery powders are. • What makes our volcano erupt? • Which seed in our terrarium will grow the best? • Identify rocks and minerals.

  20. Science • Do you know why certain items are magnetic and how electricity works? • Space is the final frontier, but wait, they just discovered more planets. • Come visit the prairie with us. • We have a lot of heart and are full of hot air.

  21. Social Studies All Around the USA

  22. Take Part in History • United States (People and Places) • Five Regions of the United States • State Fair: Select a state and learn. • Learn all about Illinois/life of the pioneers (Naper Settlement).

  23. Classroom Environment A Little about Our Classroom

  24. Classroom Environment • Cooperative Learning Groups/Skills • Classroom Meetings • Character Counts • Classroom Jobs • Star of the Week • Life Skills

  25. Other Information • Kagan Cooperative Learning • Homework • One-on-one Conferences • Formative Assessment • Guided Math, Reading, and Writing. • Small Group Instruction

  26. Contact Information • Please feel free to call me at 375-3635. • Class web site: http://sngrade4.com

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