Welcome to the Fourth Grade

Curriculum Night

Molly Weatherford

Class Website

I will update the website as frequently as possible.

Morning Work

• DGP – Daily Grammar Practice• Daily Fix-It• Handwriting• Journal Writing• Math Challenge Problem• Review of Math Skills

READING/ LANGUAGE ARTSThe integration of reading, writing, listening, grammar and

speaking are fundamental to learning and thinking.

BALANCED LITERACY PROGRAM COMPONENTS:

• shared reading

• independent reading

• read aloud

• guided reading

• shared writing

• independent writing

• word study

• literature circles

ScienceEarth Science• Solar System• Cycles and Patterns in Space• Weather

Physical Science• Light• Sound• Motion and Machines

Life Science• Ecosystems• Matter and Energy in Ecosystems• Adaptation and Extinction

Communication Folder & Agendas

Classwork and homework will be written in this daily.

This is a great communication tool between the teacher and parents.

My website is another great addition.

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Assessment and Grading

The learning expectations and standards for performance have been outlined for each quarter based on the Common Core Georgia Performance Standards (GPS).

Teachers will use two types of classroom assessments, formative and summative.

Formative and Summative

Formatives are daily, on-going assessments/observations that are used to monitor studentprogress toward mastery of standards. These are the standards-based scores of 4, 3, 2, 1.

Summatives are the cumulative assessments that receive a traditional numeric grade and will be used to measure student mastery of standards. Summative grades will be posted in Parent Portal and the average will serve as the report card grade.

Fourth Grade Report Card

Report cards will have both a traditional numeric grade for subjects and standards based scores for each of the standards from the rubrics.

Students will receive ONE report card inclusive of all content areas and conduct per quarter.

100 – 90% - Letter grade A89 – 80% - Letter grade B79 – 70% - Letter grade C69 or below – Letter grade F

These grades will be averaged to obtain the final grade for the 9 week period.

Traditional Grading Scale

Weekly information about behavior will be communicated to you by your child’s teachers.

The students’ final conduct grades will come from these behavior charts.

Conduct Grades

Sampleof

Behavior

Chart

Thank you for coming.

Please don’t hesitate to call or email me with any

concernsor questions.

mweatherford@forsyth.k12.ga.us

770-887-1883 ext. 260248