1. Please take a look around the room if you like. We will start at 6:30.
Hello
Meet Ms. White
Welcome to Ms. White’s 4th Grade! I am very excited to be teaching fourth grade this year. I have been teaching in Prince William County at Penn ES for 2 years now.
I hope your son or daughter has had a pleasurable year thus far. Please stop by my class website to see what is happening in Room 124. I will be posting our upcoming units, events, study guides and more.
Please take a look around the room if you like. We will start at 6:30.

2. Hello
Welcome from
Dr. Waltz

3. Hello
Ms. White’s Web Page
Check every couple of weeks…

4. Class Schedule 8:45 – 9:15 – Morning Announcements/Meeting Math
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Class Schedule
8:45 – 9:15 – Morning Announcements/Meeting
Math
Virginia Studies
11:10 – 11:55 – Specials
Core Extension
12:40 – 1:30 – Lunch/Recess
Language Arts
Science
3:30 – 3:45 – Pack Up & Dismissal

5. Day 5 - Guidance/Library
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Specials Schedule
Day 1 – PE
Day 2 – Art
Day 3 –Computer/STEM
Day 4 - PE
Day 5 - Guidance/Library
Day 6- Music

6. Homework No assigned Homework…my philosophy.
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Homework
No assigned Homework…my philosophy.
What they CAN do if you choose to have them do it…Study Island, Sheppard Software, SOL Pass, IXL, play outside, have family time, have them help a sibling with their homework…
Read at least min. a night.
*Math facts!

7. Study Island https://app.studyisland.com/cfw/login/ WhiteLR26 Hello
Student Login-
First 6 letters of
their last name
or all if shorter,
first initial,
middle initial
and last two # of
graduation year.
WhiteLR26
Password- student ID #

8. Communication Class Messenger is the best form of communication 
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Communication
Wednesday Folder:
Online every Wednesday
Take Home Folder:
Mainly for students to bring graded papers home from school and to bring their unfinished work back to school. Also, here is where you can put lunch $ and notes.
Class Messenger is
the best form
of communication 

9. Hello
Class Messenger

10. Birthdays Suggestions for celebrating:
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Birthdays
Suggestions for celebrating:
Donate a book to our class library
Send in pencils for the class
Come in and do an activity with the students
Eat lunch with your child
Let me know if you want to send a food treat in. *Peanut free room
Please do not send in invitations. You can invite individual students on Class Messenger.

11. Field Trips Planetarium: @ Hylton HS (November 9th)
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Field Trips
Hylton HS (November 9th)
Bus Trip: Jamestown (March)

12. Hello
Language Arts Goals
DRA – Students should be reading at a DRA 40NF/50F or higher by the end of the year. All students are expected to make a years worth of progress from their beginning of the year DRA.
CSA- 3x a year, SOL-like, if students are scoring a 75 or higher, they SHOULD be able to pass the Reading SOL.
Writing – Students should be able to write at least 4 paragraphs with 5 sentences. These should include a topic sentence, details and a closing sentence (beginning, middle and end).

13. Hello
Math Goals
Students should be able compute and work with numbers to the hundred millions.
Multiply (3x2), partial product/Divide 2 into 3, partial quotient.
Student should be able to solve word problems using the UPSC model (Understand, Plan, Solve and Check).
Math Navigator- Screener’s used to find out which strands students need to work on.
Units include: Numbers Sense & Computation (5 units), Geometry, Data Analysis and Probability, Patterns, Fractions, and Measurement.

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SOLs
Virginia Studies…SOLpass.org (school-Penn, password- penn), students all have blue VA Studies Notes & SOL Review books.
Reading- CAT (computer adaptive testing)
Math- CAT (computer adaptive testing)
Tests are in May…parents will receive a permission slip for students to retake the test if their child scores in a certain range.

15. VA Studies Science Hello VA Geography VA Native Peoples
First Permanent English Settlement
Life in a VA Colony
VA in the American Revolution
Role of VA in New American Nation
Civil War
Reconstruction of VA
VA in the 20th & 21st Centuries
and YES, SOL!
VA Studies
Science
VA Natural Resources
Weather
Solar System
Earth-Moon-Sun Relationships
Force & Motion
Electricity & Magnetism
Ecosystems
Plants

16. Grading Letter Grading
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Grading
Letter Grading A B
B 80-86 C
C 70-76 D
D 60-66
F 59 and below
If your child receives anything less than an A on an assignment coming home, it is very beneficial to go over the missed items with them.

17. Hello
Conferences
Please sign up for a Goal Setting time through Class Messenger or see me after the presentation.
Monday, Nov. 6
Tuesday, Nov. 7

18. Volunteers Donate items for a class party Copying for 4th grade
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Volunteers
Donate items for a class party
Copying for 4th grade
Reading with students
Room Parent
Watch D.O.G.S.

19. Hello
Thank you for coming!!