Welcome to 4th Grade

Mrs. Lewnes

and

Mrs. Nemeth

HOMEWORK

• We generally give homework every night except Friday.

• Studying constitutes homework. Please reinforce this at home.

• We give Math and L.A. (in some form) nightly.

• We try our best to give advance notice for tests in S.S., Science and Religion.

Morning Work and Dear Time

• We begin most mornings with morning work. This is a curriculum based worksheet that we ask the students to either turn in or save in their binder.

• Each day after lunch, we have a Drop Everything and Read time. Please be sure your child/children have a book in their desks at all times.

Behavior

• Circle Behavior Chart in Mrs. Nemeth’s room. Color code in Mrs. Lewnes’ room

• Student will have to “move their clip”. • All students start in the “Green Zone”. • One move sends them to the “Yellow Zone” or

warning. • Two moves warrant a loss of some recess.• Three moves sends them to the “Red Zone”. This

warrants loss of all recess. • Students can move their clips back to the “Green

Zone” if there is a positive change in behavior.

Behavior Note of ConcernNote of ConcernStudent’s name ________________________Date ____________

Return by ________

Reason for note:______________ inappropriate behavior______________ disruption during class______________ other __________________________Given by: __________________________________________Student’s signature

________________________________________________________Parent’s signature

_________________________________________________________

Two Notes of Concern in any trimester will result in after school Detention.1 2

Note of ConcernStudent’s name ________________________________Date ____________

Return by ________Reason for note:______________ failure to return Test Folder______________ failure to do homework assignment ______________ Other___________________________________

Comment ______________________________________________________________

Given By: _______________________________________________________________

Student’s signature ________________________________________________________

Parent’s signature _________________________________________________________

Four Notes of Concern in any trimester will result in after school Detention. 1 2 3 4

Snack and Recess

• Please send in with a napkin.

• Small water bottles.

• Working snack around 10am

• Nutritious, but not messy.

Please follow the school-wide peanut and nut allergy guidelines. We have children with severe allergies. The letter is on website.

• No morning recess in grade 4

Band Days

•Band days are Mondays.•Children are responsible for their missed work when at band. •It is up to them to find out what they missed.•Our hope is to teach them that band is an important part of their lives, and that they need to be and can be responsible.

Test Folder

• We send home a weekly test folder.• Please look through all the papers and

sign the paper inside the folder. (do not have to sign every assignment)

• Please send us an email or note if you have any questions about an assignment

• Please return all papers the next day.• We will send home all papers each

trimester.

Example of Folder

Lunch and Playground• We will go to the black top on odd numbered

days.

• We will go to the field on even numbered days

• Rough play is unacceptable.

• No footballs or Lax sticks. No soccer on courts.

Religion• Our focus in Religion is forgiveness and healing

for the first part of the year. • We move on to The Beatitudes and take a

deeper look at The Ten Commandments.• Although most students have already received

the sacrament of Reconciliation, we do review this in class.

• We will go to Mass as class on Thursdays.• We continually teach the theme of respect,

forgiveness, and peaceful conflict resolution.• We prepare the Advent Liturgy (Dec. 20th-

11:15)• We have incorporated the Values Code in our

daily teaching and prayer• Prayer family with K and 8th grade

Math

• Drill facts often and timed• Concepts: the skills • Computation• Problem solving • Review for first few weeks• Focus in fourth grade is to master multiplication

and division of greater numbers• Continued assessment of students and groups

Science and Social Studies

• Requires more studying this year.

• Challenging, yet fun.

• At times, need to bring in household supplies for an experiment or project. This is assigned homework!

• We try very hard not to give S.S. and Science tests in the same week.

Language Arts

• Reading – decoding and comprehension• English – punctuation, grammar,

sentence/paragraph structure• Spelling – weekly and applied• Phonics• Penmanship• Cursive is required• Novels- listening comprehension

Science

• The World of Living Things

• Ecosystems

• Earth’s Changing Surface

• Matter and Energy

Social Studies

• Maryland History

• Regions of the United States

• Including States and Capitals and Geography

• Geography Bee

COMMUNICATION

• Please read every St John school or PTP shout out e-mail. They contain important information. If you would like to receive a tweet each time the site is updated you can sign up for a twitter account.

Field Trips

• We are planning a field trip to the BMI in the fall. This is a hands- on museum that incorporates our study of Maryland.

• We will be going to the Science Center in the spring.

• We are also trying to plan a Music field trip to coincide with Black History Month.