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2012 - 2013
Curriculum Presentation
Fourth Grade Team
Mrs. Smith, Mrs. Schneider, and Mr. O’Connell
Snacks
Students are encouraged to
bring a healthy snack each
day. It must be small
enough to be consumed in
our 10 minute snack time!
School-wide Guidelines
The 3 B’s!
1. Be safe
2. Be Responsible
3. Be Respectful
Rewards and Consequences Tokens: Each child will receive 5 tokens at the
beginning of each week. When they are off-task, talking during inappropriate times, or exhibiting other behaviors not appropriate for the classroom they will lose a token. If they have at least one token left on Friday, they will get to participate in “Fun Friday”! If they have lost all of their tokens for the week, they will go to “Study Hall” instead.
Students who lost 0 or 1 token during an entire quarter will receive something extra for being excellent role models!
Students will start with 3 tokens after winter break!
Homework
Monday: Reading
1. Vocabulary Words / Reading Packet (due Wednesday)
2. Read for 20 minutes
Tuesday: Writing
1. Read and summarize a news article in 6 - 8 sentences or another writing activity (due Friday)
2. Read for 20 minutes
Wednesday: Math
1. Math practice to reinforce the current concept (due Friday)
2. Read for 20 minutes
Thursday: Spelling
1. Study Spelling words for the Weekly Review (Resource = www.spellingcity.com)
2. Read for 20 minutes
Graded Work Graded work and class work will be sent home every
Friday along with a “Weekly Report”. The weekly report will tell you:
◦ What we covered in class that week (in all curriculum areas)
◦ Anything upcoming that you should be aware of
◦ How your child’s behavior was for the week
◦ Class work completion for the week (not necessarily the quality of the work, but whether or not it was completed)
◦ Homework completion for the week
When you get your child’s “Friday Folder”, please take out all the work and review it with your child…this is yours to keep. Please return the empty “Friday Folder” with your child to school the following Monday.
Accessing Blackboard for Homework Assignments
Link: http://ksdblackboard.kyrene.org/
On the Blackboard
Entry screen your child will type in
their username (a 5 or 6 digit number) and will input
“fourth” for the
password!
Bookmark this page for easy access
in the future!
Accessing Blackboard for Homework Assignments
Click on your child’s
teacher!
Link: http://ksdblackboard.kyrene.org/
Accessing Blackboard for Homework Assignments
Click on the Homework
for that particular
week!
Link: http://ksdblackboard.kyrene.org/
Accessing Blackboard for Homework Assignments
Sample Homework Assignment
Accessing Grades Through the Parent Portal Link: https://sispxp.kyrene.org/
Click I am a
parent
Bookmark this page for easy access
in the future!
Accessing Grades Through the Parent Portal Link: https://sispxp.kyrene.org/
If you are a returning
user, enter your name
and password
If you are a new user, create an
account with your 7 digit
authorization key
If you forgot your username and password, don’t worry! You can have it sent to you via e-mail. Please request it by sending an e-mail request to [email protected]
Accessing Grades Through the Parent Portal Link: https://sispxp.kyrene.org/
If you forgot your username and password, don’t worry! You can have it sent to you via e-mail. Please request it by sending an e-mail request to [email protected]
Reading
Trophies: Research based instruction in phonemic
awareness, phonics, fluency, vocabulary, spelling, and text
comprehension.
We will incorporate the following into our
reading instruction: Whole Group
Small Group (ability based)
Partner Reading
Literature and Author Studies
S.Q.U.I.R.T.
Word Study
Reading Skills
Reading skills that we work very hard
on in fourth grade are: Making inferences
Main idea
Cause and effect
Comprehension
Sequencing
Author’s Purpose
WRITING PROCESS
Prewriting
Draft
Revision
Editing
Publishing
Six Traits of Writing
Ideas/Content
Organization
Sentence Fluency
Word Choice
Voice
Conventions
LANGUAGE Analogies
Context Clues
Prefixes / Suffixes / Root Words
Antonyms / Synonyms /
Homonyms
Figurative / Literal Language
Types of Sentences
Simple and Compound Sentences
Subject and Predicate
Quotation Marks
Commas
Parts of Speech
Contractions
Fact and Opinion
Spelling
Kyrene School District has adopted the Trophies spelling program to go along with the reading program. This focuses
on word families and story words.
Each week:
Each Monday, students will be given a Spelling Preview where they are given the 20 word family words and 5 extra “high frequency” words.
We will correct it together using the “dots and circles” method.
They will take home a list of the 25 words they are to be studying during the week
If a student receives 100% on the preview, he or she will be given 5 challenge words for extra credit on the Friday spelling test.
Thursday’s spelling homework is to practice the words using Spelling City at www.spellingcity.com.
Each Friday there will be a Spelling Review where they are tested on the words.
MATHEMATICS Make estimates
Compose and decompose numbers using factors and multiples
Bar graphs, line graphs, circle graphs
Median, mode, mean, and range
Fluency of multiplication and division facts
Associative and distributive property
Elapsed time to the minute
Multiply two digits by two digits
Order of operations
Discrete math
Construct tree diagrams
Measure length, mass, and capacity
Points, lines, line segments, rays, and angles
Perimeter and area
Fractions, decimals, and percents
Add and subtract fractions and decimals
Probability
Problem solving
Social Studies Using timelines to interpret historical data
Prehistoric people in America
Mogollon, Ancestral Puebloans, Hohokam people
Early civilizations that developed into empires in Central and South America
Early Spanish exploration of Mexico and the Southwestern US
Impact of Spanish colonization in the Southwest
Location and cultural characteristics of Native American tribes during the Spanish period
The Mexican Revolution
The influence of American explorers on the development of the Southwest
Events that led to Arizona becoming part of the US
The impact of Native Americans and Hispanics on the culture of Arizona
The Civil War
Economic development of Arizona
Key individuals and groups related to Arizona
The Great Depression
World War II
SCIENCE
Scientific Process
Making Observations
Creating Hypothesis
Collecting Data
Drawing Conclusions
Scientific Units of Study
• Electricity and Magnetism
• Renewable and Nonrenewable Sources
• Water and Weather
• Animal Classification and Adaption
Together we will work as a TEAM
to make this school year a positive one for our students.