Curriculum Night Welcome to Mrs' Chamblees Class

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Curriculum NightWelcome to Mrs. Chamblees Class

• 4th Grade
• August 20, 2008

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Mrs. Chamblees Daily Schedule

• 750-830 - Morning Work
• 830-915 Social Studies/ Science
• 915-930 Snack, Restroom Break
• 930-940 Wordly Wise
• 940-1050- Math
• 1053-1124 Lunch (Table G)
• 1130-1225- Grammar/ Writing
• 1225-120- Reading
• 130-215- Specials
• 220-250- Recess
• 250-300- Pack up/Dismissal

• Specials Schedule
• Monday Art
• Tuesday PE
• Wednesday Music
• Thursday PE
• Friday Spanish
• (830-915)

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Behavior/ Homework

• Class Rules
• Be Ready!
• Be Respectful!
• Be Responsible!
• Rewards
• Fluffy Money-to be used for Fluffys Shop or
  other rewards
• Marble jar
• Consequences
• Conduct Cards

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Homework Expectations

• Organization is a large part of homework.
  Basically, we tell students their responsibility
  is to Get it home! Do it well! Bring it back!
• Student Agendas- Students are responsible for
  writing down nightly homework assignments and
  tests from the board.
• Parents, please check agenda nightly. Through the
  agenda you will be informed of the homework
  expectations for the week and upcoming tests. In
  addition, this is an excellent form of
  communication.

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Homework (cont.)

• How you can help? Create a routine!
• Check agenda
• Assist your child with a quiet study location
• Help your child with organizing cleaning out
  folders
• Making sure that work is returned to school on
  time completed
• Acknowledging your childs responsibility in
  understanding assignments completing work on
  time.
• Fourth graders should be spending about 40-50
  minutes a night on homework! If your child
  finishes homework in less time, please work on
  math facts, read, or practice spelling words.

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Absences

• As taken directly from the Daves Creek Student
  Handbook, It is the students responsibility to
  make arrangements with the teacher within two (2)
  days of returning to school to make up class work
  and test(s). Again, it is the childs
  responsibility to collect the work that they need
  to make up. Students have five days to turn it
  in, however, this is only for assignments that
  were assigned the day they were gone. Many of
  you request that work be sent down to the office
  or sent home with a sibling when you have a
  sick/absent child. We are more than happy to
  accommodate this request! In fact, it helps us
  out in the long run- we encourage this! ?

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Friday Folders

• Communication from school will be sent home with
  your child in a Friday folder.
• Please read all items, review graded work, and
  return the folder on Monday with your childs
  weekly behavior log signed.
• Please return any graded work in the folder. (It
  hopefully will be stapled together!) Students
  will be using this for the student-led
  conferences!

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Lunches

• Please feel free to come eat lunch with your
  child, but remember that you must sit outside at
  either of the courtyards, or sit at the extra
  table. Unfortunately with our class size being
  so large, there is not enough room for parents
  and the class. Also, please no inviting a buddy
  to eat with your child.
• Daves Creek strongly discourages outside food
  being brought in. If you do choose to bring in
  outside food, you will need to sit in the
  courtyard.

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Grading

• Please make note that your child will be
  receiving grades based on the traditional A,B,C,
  and F policy. This is different from what you
  have been given in the past.
• The following is a minimum number of grades in
  each subject area
• Reading- 10
• English- 14
• Math- 10
• Writing- 5 (One is a cursive grade.)
• Science and Social Studies- 7

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Conferences

• This year conferences will be given in October
  and March to all students. Conferences will be
  led by your child. However, if you would like to
  have a private conference with your teacher, you
  may schedule one before or after the student-led
  conference.

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Reading/Lang. Arts/Writing Overview

• The fourth grade uses MacMillan/McGraw Hill,
  Daybooks, guided reading, novel sets, short
  stories, magazines, and Accelerated Reader books.
  Please help your child find AR books at a
  library or bookstore. After completing an AR
  book, students will have the opportunity to take
  a computer test on that book. In writing, we
  will be learning the traits and using the steps
  of the writing process. These traits are
  evaluated and include ideas and content,
  organization, sentence fluency, word choice,
  voice, conventions, and presentation.

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Reading

• Vocabulary using context clues and word parts to
  create meaning.
• Wordly Wise
• Website for practice www.wordlywise3000.com
• Fluency (95 accuracy)
• Skills Inferencing, summarizing, main idea and
  details, locating information, distinguishing
  cause effect, interpreting figurative language,
  connecting to text

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Writing

• Genres
• Narrative
• Informational
• Persuasive
• Response to Literature
• Cursive At least one writing grade per nine week
  term will be based on handwriting.
• Writing will be graded using a 5-scale rubric.

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Writing Rubric Breakdown
Writing Rubric

• 5 100
• 4 96-99
• 4 95
• 4- 90-94
• 3 86-89
• 3 85
• 3- 80-84
• 2 76-79
• 2 75
• 2- 70-74
• 1 65

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Language Arts

• Grammar types of sentences, subject predicate
  (complete and simple), sentence structures
  (compound, simple, complex), clauses (independent
  dependent), parts of speech (noun, verb,
  adverb, adjective, preposition)
• Spelling Students will be taking pre-tests on
  Mondays based on the MacMillan/McGraw Hill
  reading program. Students who score a 90 or
  higher on their pretest will be given the Wordly
  Wise words for their spelling list. Spelling
  words will come home on the weekly newsletter for
  the upcoming week and the final tests will be
  that following Friday.

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Social Studies

• Study guides will be provided for all social
  studies tests at least one week in advance.
• Native Americans
• Explorers
• Colonialism
• Revolutionary War
• Early Government
• Westward Expansion

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Science

• Ecosystems
• Weather the Water Cycle states of matter
• Sound light
• Space
• Simple Machines

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Math General

• We use the Houghton Mifflin basal series. With
  this new series comes a homework book that
  students will bring home each night for
  reinforcement of the days skills.
• Multiplication is a skill that is highly used in
  the fourth grade. Please have your student study
  his or her facts for at least 15 minutes each
  night.

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Math Semester 1

• Place Value
• Number forms expanded, standard, word form.
• Rounding numbers through thousands
• Multiplication facts, multiplying 2-3 digit by
  1-2 digit numbers
• Division facts, 2 digit divisors, terms
  (divisor, dividend, quotient, remainder)
• 4 arithmetic operations
• Properties of addition commutative, associative,
  distributive
• Standard and metric measurement of weight
• Interpreting graphs

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Math Semester 2

• Characteristics of geometric figures (i.e. types
  of angles, lines, quadrilaterals)
• Characteristics of solid figures (ie. faces,
  edges, vertices, models)
• Use of ordered pairs in coordinate system
• Decimals addition, subtraction, multiplication,
  and division
• Fractions finding equivalent fractions, addition
  subtraction of fractions and mixed numbers with
  like denominators
• Changing mixed numbers to improper fractions and
  vice versa
• Represent and interpret mathematical
  relationships in quantitative expressions (ie.
  Algebraic relationships)

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Benchmark Assessments

• At the end of every quarter, the students will
  be taking a county wide benchmark assessment.
  These assessments are given in math, reading, and
  language arts. These tests are given to measure
  students progress throughout each quarter based
  upon specific standards. The purpose of these
  assessments are to drive teachers instruction.

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• Thank you for attending this years Curriculum
  Night. We appreciate your continued support at
  home and look forward to another year of success!