1. Welcome Uplift North Hills Parents
4th Grade
2017 – 2018 School Year
Mrs. Alhoutari is still in need of a room parent. Please see her if you are willing and able to help out.

2. Meet the 4th grade team Jessica Alhoutari– Social Students Planner
Bethany Knoodle – Science Planner
Zainab Farah– Math Planner
Carolyn Finch – ELA Planner

3. Behavior Policy
2016 – 2017

5. Behavior Grades K – 5 Colors are as follows
Yellow – Powerful Panther – your child went above and beyond expectations
Green – Ready to learn – They are following expectations and procedures
Blue –Reflection- A bad choice was made.
Reflection sheet is filled out and sent home for parents to sign and return
Orange- Loss of Privilege - Student made another bad choice. This means that they will now miss out on something. This could be a few minutes at recess, etc.
3 oranges in a week is a Friday detention
Red – Call home - This also an automatic Friday detention.

6. Behavior Cont. Detention 3 Oranges in a week = Friday detention
Red = automatic detention
Detentions are every Friday
Parents must park and walk in to pick up students in detention
A note will be sent home to inform parent of detention

7. Reading & Writing STAAR
Mrs. Finch

8. NEW Reading and writing staar dates
Writing STAAR – Tuesday, April 10th
Expository prompt
24 revising and editing multiple choice questions
Reading STAAR – Tuesday, May 15th
36 questions

9. Math
Mrs. Farah

10. Important Information
IMPERATIVE that ALL students know their multiplication and division facts
0-12
GoMath Curriculum
Link to student edition in and on fourth grade website
Builds on third grade

11. New Math STAAR Date Math STAAR – Monday, May 14th
There are only 34 questions

12. Science & Social Studies
Mrs. Alhoutari
Mrs. Knoodle

13. Science Curriculum STEMScopes Interactive Science workbook
Online science curriculum
Each student will be given a username and password
Interactive Science workbook
Supplement
May be sent home as study guides, homework, or review work

14. Social Studies
Texas History

15. MAP
We will be taking the MAP (Measures of Academic Progress) test 2 times this year.
The tests cover Reading, Language Arts, and Math.
The goal is for each student to grow 1 ½ years on their MAP score by the end of the year.

16. Homework Writing assignment and/or Reading log Math worksheet
Should not take your child more than 45 minutes – 1 hour
Please make sure that you sign your child’s planner every night so that you know what the homework is and how their behavior was for that day

17. Newsletter/website
Wednesday Panther Newsletter sent home every Wednesday
Newsletter will be sent home every 6 weeks with an overview of activities and curriculum.
4th grade has a grade level website that will be updated to show homework and assignments that need to be completed.
While these will be fairly accurate, always default to your child’s planner for the most up to date information. Sometimes we need to adjust an assignment last minute and that will not be shown on the website

18. Questions??

19. Thank You!!! We look forward to a wonderful year!!!