Welcome to Welcome to Fourth Grade! Fourth Grade!

Mrs. GagneMrs. Gagne

Welcome to Welcome to Fourth Grade! Fourth Grade!

Mrs. GagneMrs. Gagne

Back to School Night 2015!Back to School Night 2015!

Getting to Know Your Child’s Teachers

»Mrs. Gagne

School Mission Statement

•Mission: Chief Joseph School values and challenges each student to succeed today…for life tomorrow.

•Striving Readers Grant

• Elementary school is a critical foundation for ensuring students have the tools and knowledge required to succeed in high school and college

• We believe all students can achieve

Parents as Partners in Education!

•Communication with the teacher and school– Email (please make sure I have your email

address) – Phone calls, notes, and conferencing/sign up

tonight– Notes on homework– Weebly (this is your homework and event portal

– please bookmark it) gagne4.weebly.com– - Remind 101 – sign up now if you haven’t

Class Wish List

• Clorox Wipes • Individual snacks• Tissues • Gently used books for our classroom library• Sheet protectors

Daily Classroom Schedule

A note of your child’s specials was sent home the first week, and it is on gagne4.weebly.com

Curriculum• Montana Common Core Math:

Math Expressions - 90 minute block (Aims)

• Foss Science (Human Body, Magnetism, and Water)

• Harcourt Brace Social Studies (States and regions, Montana)

Reading and Language Arts

• Text: Good Habits, Great Readers• Focus lessons, mini-lessons and wrap ups using

teacher modeling texts that model strategies and promote understanding.

• Novel Studies – Independent and Guided• Small groups • Core Books to incorporate Science and Social

Studies: Fiction, Non-fiction, Historical Fiction• Book Reports • Spelling: Essentials, Individualized, affixes/roots

Writing

• Good Habits, Great Readers Writing: Celebration Press

• Thinking Maps to organize ideas• Types of writing: Narrative, Descriptive,

Informational and Persuasive• Steps of the Writing Process: Prewriting,

Drafting, Revising, Editing and Publishing• Book Reports and Journals

• Write across curriculum

Homework and Daily Preparedness

• Given nightly, except on weekends• Spelling tests on Friday• Projects will be announced on weebly with ample

time to complete and will be accompanied by a rubric

• Be sure your child is prepared each day by having all of their materials and appropriate paperwork signed.

• Any money or important office information must be placed in a closed envelope.

Star HomeworkStar homework allows you and your child to choose how much homework they will do nightly. Your child can choose to do one star or up to three stars! Our class will be attempting to earn enough stars for a reward on Friday, so it is important your child does nightly homework that helps our class accomplish their goal.

•Reading (15+ min)•Super Speed Math (set and break records) •Super Speed Reading 1000 (set and break records) •Math work (Remembering and Homework worksheets: 10+ min) •Letter to Teacher •Revised Letter to the teacher

Homework

Hand outs

• Teacher packet• Library Note• Parents as Partners• Parent Portal for Powerschool• Reading introduction• Remind 101• * Homework (in your child’s binder)• Corrected Work Contract (on Weebly)• Guidelines to success (on Weebly)• Showbie, spelling city, IXL: Logins will be in

their binders•Title Contract

Thank You!Thank you for all you’ve already done and for all that you will continue to do for your child be successful throughout

their fourth grade school year! We appreciate all that you do to support

Please sign up for a Parent Teacher Conference if you haven’t already

Welcome to 4th Grade!!