Welcome to 4th Grade Where Great Things Happen

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Welcome to 4th GradeWhere Great Things Happen
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Lifelong Guidelines

• Truthfulness
• Trustworthiness
• Personal Best
• Active Listening
• No Putdowns

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Lifeskills
Responsibility Effort Common Sense Integrity
Flexibility Perseverance Organization Sense of Humor
Problem Solving Patience Cooperation Caring
Pride Courage Good Manners Respect
Curiosity Friendship Initiative
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Helping Your Child Be A Better Student

• Regular Bedtime
• School Night Routine
• Nutritional Meals, particularly breakfast
• Quiet Time and Place to Study
• Check for Needed Supplies
• Meet Teachers
• Remember, you are a Consultant, not a
• direct participant in your childs study

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Homework

• Any work not completed at school becomes
  homework.
• Incomplete homework
• homework form for you to sign.
• one day late assignment one letter grade off.
• after first late day, no credit, but must still
  be completed.
• Daily time for homework
• 30-45 minutes per day
• If no assignments, child should be reading,
  practicing math facts, or studying subject areas.

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Needed Supplies

• Crayons
• Colored pencils or markers
• White liquid glue
• Fiskars scissors
• Fine line black marker
• 2 pencils
• Separate eraser
• Ruler with standard and metric measure
• Plastic pencil box
• Pocket dictionary

• Red pen
• Blue or black pen
• 2 different colored highlighters
• 3 spiral notebooks
• 7 pocket folders
• Thick-lined loose leaf paper
• 2 boxes of Kleenex
• Joan Martin assignment book
• Clipboard
• No Trapper Keepers Please