Welcome to Fourth Grade

Curriculum Night!
SEPTEMBER 8, 2016

Our Expectations

Positive Attitude

Effort

Attendance

Homework to be done and turned in on due

dates

Participation

Planner to be signed every night

Daily Schedule

Morning Work

Creative Arts (8:25 9:25)

Reading (90 minutes, includes spelling)

Recess/Lunch

Math

Writing

Science/Social Studies (one unit at a time)

Now, lets talk about

our curriculum!

Math

Everyday Math

program is aligned
with Common Core
Standards

EDM is spiraled so

upcoming skills are

previewed and
taught skills are

The Standards for Mathematical

Practice:
1. Make sense of problems and
persevere in solving them.
2. Reason abstractly and
quantitatively.

Reasoning
Problem Solving
Accuracy

3. Construct viable arguments

and critique the reasoning of
others.
4. Model with mathematics.
5. Use appropriate tools
strategically.
6. Attend to precision.
7. Look for and make use of
structure.
8. Look for and express
regularity in repeated reasoning.

Family Letter
Before each unit, a

family letter will go

home. Please hold
onto this note for the
entire unit. It also has
all of the answers to
the homework for each
lesson!
When we have a test,

you will see a "Test

Alert" come home
which lists all of the
goals for the unit.

Family
Letter

Math Unit Tests

When we have a test, you will see a

Test Alert come home. This includes test
date information as well as review and
practice items connected to the Unit
studied.

Every test will have a math facts portion

50 facts

3 minutes

Passing is an M = 49/50 facts

Take a look!

Reading

Reading Street
90 Minute Reading
Block
Focuses on: fluency,
vocabulary,
comprehension

Fourth Grade Resourc

es

Family Times Newsletter

Each

week, we will send home a Family

Times newsletter

It

contains reading skills, strategies,

vocabulary words, and spelling words for
the week

Please

hold on to these newsletters until

the end of each unit

Your

child will be tested on all skills

covered during the unit at the end of the 6
weeks

Family Times Newsletter

Writing
Our program has the students write the same
type of composition that they are reading in
class
We will be writing all types of compositions
this year, but we will focus on 6 genres
o

Personal Narrative

Expository

Opinion

Story Writing

Persuasive

Research Project

Science
Our science units this year
Plant and Animal Structures
Energy
Earths Changing Surface
Reproductive Health (4 days)

Science Fair

o ALL students must participate

Social Studies
Units

Our

in Social Studies

Federal Government

Civics
Geography

Tastes

Around the World

Economics

Market

Day

Michigan

History

Homework
You

should see homework coming home regularly

soon
Please be sure to check your childs homework folder everyday
for assignments

There

will be math homework most days

Please make sure to go over your childs math homework when

they are finished

Also,

please make sure your child is reading

regularly at home and using their reading
log/book buddy

Thank you!

Planner

Please sign your

childs planner
every day!!

The planner is also

a great
communication
tool! If you have a
comment or
question, write it in
the planner and we
will check them

Field Trips
Annies

Big Nature Lesson (the entire

week of November 7th ,need a lunch every
day.)

The
PJ

Henry Ford Museum End of April

Hoffmaster Beginning of June

Questions? Comments?
Concerns?
T H I S P O W E R P O I N T W I L L B E AVA I L A B L E
ON THE
FOURTH GRADE
R E S O U R C E S PA G E .

THANK YOU SO MUCH

FOR COMING AND FOR
YOUR ONGOING
SUPPORT!!