1. Welcome to Room 32
Please sign in and sign up for a fall conference (front table)
Find your child’s desks and fill out/sign necessary forms
Write your child a motivation letter to reflect back on throughout the year

2. Specials Schedule:
Monday: Search (A week), PE, Dreambox
Tuesday: Music and PE
Wednesday: Art
Thursday: PE, guidance (B week)
Friday: Music and PE

3. Respectful
On-Task
Acting Safely
Responsible

4. Classroom Management
Students are required to follow the Classroom Expectations and will be rewarded when they do.
Students are aware of the consequences if they fail to follow the Classroom Expectations:
First Warning-verbal
Second Warning-consequence related to the behavior
Third Time-call or note home made/written by the student and requires a parent signature.

5. Parent Expectations
-Please look over your child’s agenda and website daily for important assignments and information.
-Call the main office or write a note for dismissal changes please. ************
- s will be returned or replied to within 48 hours (weekends excluded).
-Lunch money should be in an envelope with the students name and lunch number.

6. Check agenda daily
Spelling books come home daily
Read 20 minutes

7. BYOT
BYOT stands for Bring Your Own Technology, and means students are able to use technology their family owns while at school.   Although any device will be helpful, devices which allow the student to create content (Netbooks, Chromebooks, laptops, tablets) and which have a keyboard are best suited, and often less expensive than devices designed for consumption (cell phones), but both types of device are acceptable.

8. First Nine Weeks Math Number Sense Virginia’s Five Regions Computation
Place Value
Patterns
Elapsed Time
VA Studies
Virginia’s Five Regions
Native Americans
Jamestown and Colonial VA

9. First Nine Weeks English/Spelling Reading Pre-Writing Strategies
Revision/Editing for grammar, capitalization, punctuation, spelling, sentence structure, and paragraphing
Personal Narratives and Poetry
Reading
Fiction and Nonfiction Comprehension
Reading Strategies and Skills through Mini- Lessons
Expanding Vocabulary
Wordly Wise

10. First Nine Weeks Science Technology Scientific Investigation
Virginia’s Natural Resources
Solar System
Technology
Student Safe Websites/ Internet Safety
Word processing
Computer Lab

11. Assessments Assessments are given continually throughout the year.
Formative assessments are informal and count towards the learning targets.
Common assessments used by grade level. 4’s only given when students exceed the standard.
We also use different programs to measure your child’s growth throughout the year: MAP, DRA, etc

12. Grading Scale Progress Indicators 4= Exceeds Standards
3= Meets Standards
2= Progressing Towards Standards
1= Below Standard
Grading Key
A= Outstanding
B= Very Good
C= Satisfactory
D= Needs Improvement
F= Not Performing (4

15. ANY QUESTIONS?