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BACK TO SCHOOL NIGHTBACK TO SCHOOL NIGHT44thth GRADE GRADE

Ms. BarreraMs. Barrera

Introduction•Eleven years teaching

experience•Ten years teaching 4th grade•My 7th year at Warren Point•Your child’s YEAR AS A 4th

GRADER

A Year of Firsts•A,B,C… grades•Instrumental Band Program•Strings

(leaving the classroom for activities)

Classroom Management

• No Bully Policy• Character Education• Positive Reinforcement• Communication

– Class website– Assignment Pads– Missing Homework Slips– BLOG: Let’s Check out the Site

– Link is on my school website

Homework Policy• Rubric• ALL HOMEWORK ONLINE• 3 missing homework assignments =

Character Court• Absent and Homework• After School Help

-If I am not available any day, I will post it on my website.

-Morning help available by request

Specials Schedule

Posted on Website

Math Success• Multiplication and Division Facts

-Tested every Monday-IXL online Practice:20-30

minutes on website posted online

• Curriculum: long division, long multiplication, fractions

• Homework every night• Tests: every other week

Social Studies (alternates with science)

• Units of study include:– Immigration– The Lenni Lenape Tribe – US Government– NJ’s Role in the American

Revolution– Regions of the United States

Science

–Sound–Light–Magnetism and Electricity–Simple Machines–The Human Body

Writer’s Workshop• Writing Workshop - genre based unit of

study-Personal Narratives-Realistic Fiction-Personal Essay-Historical Fiction

• Sentence Expansion • Homework every night to practice skills

learned in class.

Reader’s Workshop

• Read Aloud• Whole class shared reading - Mini

Lessons• Independent Reading• Guided Reading-small group• Conferencing • READING BOOKS ON LEVEL• SRA

Tom Marshall, 2010

Pa XXXX Joanie with his dirty XXXX. Spoon rose to follow Pa, but one of the XXXX XXXX in the window caught the light of the real XXXX and sent off pure white XXXX directly at Spoon. He sat down again, XXXX by the XXXX orb, feeling as if he was on the brink of a meaningful XXXX, on the verge of XXXX his XXXX.

His eyes darted from one XXXX to the next. Something of Gram’s.

Thinking, thinking.

Step into your students’ shoes…

4th grade reading level

85% accuracy

Tom Marshall, 2010

Pa followed Joanie with his dirty XXXX. Spoon rose to follow Pa, but one of the XXXX suns in the window caught the light of the real XXXX and sent off pure white XXXX directly at Spoon. He sat down again, XXXX by the XXXX orb, feeling as if he was on the brink of a meaningful thought, on the verge of XXXX his XXXX.

His eyes darted from one XXXX to the next. Something of Gram’s.

Thinking, thinking.

Let’s try that again at 90%...

A little better…Still not “just right.”

Tom Marshall, 2010

Pa followed Joanie with his dirty dishes. Spoon rose to follow Pa, but one of the XXXX suns in the window caught the light of the real XXXX and sent off pure white flashes directly at Spoon. He sat down again, mesmerized by the XXXX orb, feeling as if he was on the brink of a meaningful thought, on the verge of solving his XXXX.

His eyes darted from one sun to the next. Something of Gram’s.

Thinking, thinking.

How about 95%...

Starting to clear up…Let’s see 100%

Tom Marshall, 2010

Pa followed Joanie with his dirty dishes. Spoon rose to follow Pa, but one of the stained-glass suns in the window caught the light of the real sun and sent off pure white flashes directly at Spoon. He sat down again, mesmerized by the gleaming orb, feeling as if he was on the brink of a meaningful thought, on the verge of solving his problem.

His eyes darted from one sun to the next. Something of Gram’s.

Thinking, thinking.

This is what it should sound (and feel) like…

So, what does that show?

Tom Marshall, 2010

It shows us…Under 96% is really unclear. It’s crucial that as teachers and parents we work to match children to books on their LEVEL. Better to be too easy than too hard.

Spelling/Word Study

• This school year, the students will be working with one list of words.

• There will be limited homework in this subject area, for the students will be completing this work in class.

• Fifth grade- no spelling

Other Information•Class Parents:

QUESTIONS?