Move-up to Fourth Grade Parent Presentation

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Move-up to Fourth GradeParent Presentation

• Mrs. Miller and Mr. Schoeny
• February 14, 2008

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ES Quiz Which of the following will be new for
4th grade students?

1. Guided reading instruction
2. Recorder instruction
3. Math fact mastery in all operations
4. Swimming instruction
5. Laboratory science class three times a week
6. Different art teacher
7. Two music teachers
8. Vocabulary tests
9. Daily homework plan book
10. Use of tablet computers in classroom
11. Overnight trip
12. Type to Learn 3 (keyboarding)

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Things you might notice about your 4th grader at
the beginning of the year

• Very competitive, yet may form cliques
• Complain a lot, may worry
• Group work can be challenging
• Complain about aches, pains, and injuries
• May be restless at times
• Work hard and pay attention to detail, but may
  jump quickly between interests
• Love language and word play
• Like to negotiate age of Lets Make a Deal

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Things you might notice about your 4th grader at
the end of the year

• Good age for clubs, team sports, and whole class
  activities
• Voracious readers
• Quick to anger and quick to forgive
• Listen well but enjoy talking, explaining, and
  letting their feelings be known
• Need lots of outdoor play and physical challenges
• Enjoy collecting, organizing, and classifying
• More cooperative working in groups
• Can concentrate on reading and thinking for long
  periods of time
• Open to learning mediation and problem solving
  skills

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Math

• Year of Fact Knowledge, Application, and Mastery
• Mastery of facts in all operations
• (The expectation is 100 problems in less than
  5 minutes, solved correctly)
• Solving more complex multiplication and division
  problems
• Problem Solving Strategies
• Multiple solutions
• Articulating mathematical ideas
• Estimation and number sense
• Units covered
• Place Value, Addition and Subtraction,
  Multiplication and Division, Geometry, Fractions,
  Decimals, Probability and Statistics, Graphing,
  and always Problem Solving

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Try This One

• Typical Problem of the Week
• (aka POW)
• Two heads are better than one

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Social Studies Units

• Maps and Globes
• Explorers
• Immigration
• American Freedoms

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Reading

• Independent Reading and choosing a
• Just Right book.
• Readers Notebook, weekly letters.
• Author study, student selected books. Fourth
  grade authors include Roald Dahl, Robert Kimmel
  Smith, Phyllis Reynolds Naylor, Scholastic Dear
  America series, and Andrew Clements
• Book Celebrations, four times a year.

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Writing

• Utilize Writing Workshop, by Lucy Calkins
• Fictional Stories
• Research Reports
• Personal Narratives
• Persuasive Writing
• Journal Writing
• Letters

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Work Habits

• Lets get organized!
• Time management
• Materials management
• Responsibility
• Ownership

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Daily Geography (aka DG)

• Sample Question 1
• The Aleutian Islands are part of which state?
• Sample Question 2
• The Gulf of California flows into which ocean?

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New Fourth Grade Parents

• Any questions?