Mrs. Lewnes and Mrs. Nemeth 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 Concern Student’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 Concern Student’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 5 + 4 = 9 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

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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.