1. Welcome To Fourth Grade! Southeast Elementary Shelley Black

2. Daily Schedule 8:20-8:40- Check Homework 8:40-8:50- Class Meeting
8:50-9:00- Daily Common Core Review
9:00-9:20- Word Study
9:20-10:30- Reader’s Workshop
10:30-11:20- Specials
11:30-12:15- Writer’s Workshop
12::21-1:16- Lunch/Recess
1:20-1:35- Interactive Read Aloud
1:35-2:10- Science/Social Studies
2:10-3:20- Math Workshop

3. Visitors/Volunteers Communication
Take Home Folder- blue plastic folder with gold stars. Please check every evening and return each day.
Contact Info Magnet- please feel free to call or me if you ever have questions or concerns.
Visitors/Volunteers
Raptor- New visitor check in system. All visitor’s must have a valid driver’s license to register.
All volunteers must be pre-screened. Forms are available in the office.

4. Transportation
Please send a note with your child or contact the office concerning any changes in transportation. If a note is not sent and the office is not notified, your child will be sent to his or her usual transportation after school. Please do not leave messages concerning transportation on my school voice mail or .

5. Birthdays
Snacks
Birthday treats must be individually wrapped and commercially packaged. You may send them to school or drop them in the office. Birthdays and treats are celebrated in the cafeteria. No tree nut or peanut products please.
We will have a working snack time each afternoon around 2:15. Please send something healthy, dry, and quick. No peanut products. Water bottle are welcomed with water only.

6. Dress Code
Dress comfortably
Tennis shoes for P.E. and recess
Limit jewelry and other accessories
No hats/ball caps in building or at recess
Dress for recess weather- jackets, coats, stocking caps, gloves

7. Continuous Improvement
Leader in Me
7 Habits
Be Proactive
Begin with the End in Mind
Put First Things First
Think Win-Win
Synergize
Seek First to Understand then to be Understood
Sharpen the Saw
Continuous Improvement
Individual and class goal setting

8. Reader’s Workshop
Resource- Structured around authentic, quality literature
Goal- Develop lifelong readers
Whole group, small group, and individualized instruction
Reading strategies and skills will be the focus
Please make reading a priority at home even though I will not required logged minutes.
Read to your child, listen to your child read, and read together.

9. Writer’s Workshop Resource- Lucy Calkins
Goal- to familiarize students with the genres of writing they will regularly encounter throughout their school career.
Units of Study
Realistic Fiction
Persuasive Essays
Research Reports
Literary Essays

10. Word Study Resource- Words Their Way
Goal- to build student’s reading and writing processing systems by being able to recognize word patterns and understand meanings to decode and solve new words.
Begins with an elementary spelling placement test
As a grade level students will be placed in differentiated groups.
Emphasis on the spelling and meaning of groups of words will be studied with weekly spelling lists to improve spelling/writing fluency.

11. Math Workshop Resource- enVisionMATH
Goal~ to develop conceptual understanding through daily problem-based interactive and visual learning and to create better problem solvers.
Includes challenging concepts that involves many hands-on activities with a variety of manipulatives to improve understanding of real life experiences.
Mastery of multiplication and division facts is essential
Math homework that reinforces the daily lesson will be sent home on a routine basis.

12. Science
Resources~Next Generation Science Standards (NGSS) and STEMscopes
Uses~ 5 E’s instructional model ( Engage, Explore, Explain, Elaborate, and Evaluate)
Goal~ use a constructivist approach to science instruction so students are actively developing their understanding of science concepts and practices.

13. New Grading System Partially Understood - I’m getting there!
I can complete the task with help or an example in front of me.
I may still make a few mistakes.
I can find my mistakes with help from someone.
Needed Support - I need help!
I can follow the task while someone explains it to me.
I cannot figure out what I am doing wrong.
I cannot figure out how to start.
Exceeded - Ready for a challenge!
I can complete the task without help.
I can explain how to do the task in my own words.
I can help someone who is struggling with the task.
I can explain how it applies to my life.
Mastered - I got it!
I can show that I understand.
I can find my own mistakes.

14. Report Card

15. Homework Math Frontrowed.com Required
Math page each night that reinforces whatever skill we worked on that day during math workshop.
Reading at home. Not required to log minutes.
Optional Activities
ELA
Vocabulary.com
Newsela.com
Readtheory.org
Whoosreading.org
Math
Frontrowed.com

16. for taking the time to attend Parent Orientation!
Thank You...
for taking the time to attend Parent Orientation!
I look forward to working with you and your child this year. It is going to be a wonderful year filled with exciting learning activities!