Welcome to Back-to-School Night! I would like to create parent contact list, so please send me an email at your earliest convenience.

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Welcome toBack-to-School Night!I would like
to create parent contact list, so please send me
an email at your earliest convenience.
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Fourth Grade Curriculum
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Writing We have many fun
and exciting things planned for fourth grade.
Please see Council Rocks Writing Rubric on the
writing folder.
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Reading Fluency

• Rate
• Accuracy
• Intonation
• Expression
• Phrasing Pauses
• Stress
• Adjust Rate to Purpose
• Phrasing Punctuation

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Fourth Grade Comprehension Target Skills and
Strategies

• Skills
  Strategies
• Story Structure
• Authors Purpose Monitor/Clarify
• Cause and Effect Visualize
• Theme Analyze/Evaluate
• Understanding Characters Infer/Predict
• Fact and Opinion Summarize
• Conclusions and Generalizations Question
• Sequence of Events Wondering
• Text and Graphic Features Understanding
  Characters
• Compare and Contrast
• Sequence of Events
• Persuasion
• Main Ideas and Details

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Grammar

• Complete Sentences Participles
• Subjects and Predicates Verbs
• Kinds of Sentences Irregular Verbs
• Simple and Compound Sentences Proper Mechanics
• Adjectives Quotations
• Adverbs Negatives
• Prepositions and Prepositional Phrases
• Transitions
• Abbreviations
• Nouns
• Proper Nouns
• Possessive Nouns
• Conjunctions
• Commas
• Pronouns
• Making Comparisons
• Comparative and Superlative Adjectives and
  Adverbs

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Cooperative Reading Structures

• Turn to Your Partner - The students turn to a
  partner sitting next to them to discuss an issue
  or question.
• Think, Pair, Share - The students think
  individually about a question or issue and then
  discuss their thoughts with a partner. Pairs
  report their thinking to another pair or to the
  class.
• Think, Pair, Write The students think
  individually before discussing their thoughts
  with a partner. Students then write what they
  are thinking.

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For homework, please make a connection
between home and school by encouraging your child
to read for at least 15-20 minutes each school
night. Children are asked to record the books
they read in their assignment books.
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Math

• Math homework will be given each night as a
  follow-up
• to the days lesson. Occasionally your child
  will be assigned
• problems from the math book. Please save all
  homework
• sheets because they may serve as an excellent
  study tool
• before chapter and unit tests.
• F.Y.I. YES, the math book may be brought home,
  and
• should serve as a study tool prior to tests until
  your family
• feels comfortable using www.pearsonsuccessnet.com
  
• in place of the book .

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First In MATH

• The First In Math Online Program allows students
  to progress at their own pace and master math
  skills. Comprehensive content is presented in a
  game format, but engages students in serious
  mathematics.

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Social Studies

• COURSE DESCRIPTION The students knowledge of
  geography, history, economics and government of
  his/her home state, of Pennsylvania will be
  developed. The students will recognize the impact
  of Pennsylvania as an integral part of the United
  States. Through the study of different regions of
  the United States, students will develop an
  understanding of the similarities and diversities
  of the fifty states.
• Essential Learning questions
• How do physical features and geographic locations
  impact where and how people live?
• How do diverse resources, economic and industries
  affect the progress and growth of a region?
• How, when and why do people move? How do natural
  resources determine the development of industries
  in a region?
• What are the lessons that can be learned from
  Current Events?

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Science

• Land and Water Mrs. Young
• Electricity and Magnetism - Mrs. Weinstein
• Animal Studies - Mrs. Black
• Life Skills Miss Hough

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Expectations of a Fourth Grader

• Maintenance of a daily assignment book
• Make-up of all missed assignments
• Work is neat and organized
• Work is original and complete
• Participation in class activities
• Follow class/school rules

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Homework

• Council Rock School district states that
  homework in fourth grade
• should be approximately 40 minutes in length. If
  your child is taking
• longer to complete homework, please contact me so
  other
• arrangements can be made.
• Homework is written daily in the assignment
  book. Your childs
• homework folder with all worksheets, notes, etc.
  comes home each
• night. Please be sure to sign your childs
  assignment book every night
• upon completion of homework.
• Missing or incomplete homework must be completed
  and returned.
• If missed homework is a consistent problem,
  parents will be notified.

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Home/School Communication

• Please include a note in the assignment
• book if you have any questions or concerns.
• I will get back to you as soon as possible.
• Notes from the office and/or classroom are
• sent home on occasion, so please
• check and empty the homework folder each
• day.

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What You, as the Parent of a Fourth Grade
Student, Can Do

• Check to see that the homework is complete
• Sign the assignment book every night
• Ask, What is going on in class?
• Communicate any concerns as soon as they arise
• Return notes as soon as possible
• Promote responsibility in your fourth grader
• Provide a stable homework environment

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Scholastic Book Clubs

• Regardless of the number of clubs you choose
  to
• order from each month, you only need to write one
• check out to Scholastic Book Club. Cash is
  also
• accepted. The book orders usually arrive within
• Two weeks. H2HZ4

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Absences

• It is important that you send a note in
• With your child when he/she returns from
• an absence.
• Online Attendance Form

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Volunteers

• Please sign in at the office and get a
• visitors tag to wear so students and staff
• know you are part of our learning
• environment.

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Holiday PartiesHalloween, Winter Holiday, and
Valentines DayHomeroom parents will be
collecting money for party food, paper products,
and crafts.
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Transport Slips

• If you plan on picking your child up
  from school, please fill out a transport slip and
  send it into school on the day it will be used.
  Parents whose children are car riders every day
  may submit one note that applies to the entire
  year.

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Birthday Celebrations

• Peanut-free birthday treats can be sent in with
• your child on or around his/her birthday.
• Summer birthdays may be celebrated during the
  last week of school or on your childs half year
  birthday.
• Please refrain from sending birthday party
  invitations to school.
• All invitations must be sent from home unless the
  entire class is invited to the party.

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Instrumental Music Lessons

• Lessons begin as soon as the instrumental music
• teachers receive all permission slips from
  interested
• students and are able to create a schedule. You
  will be
• notified in writing when this takes place. Your
  childs
• schedule will be based on a rotation so he/she
  will not
• miss the same curriculum on a regular basis.
  Children are
• responsible for finding out and making up the
  work they
• miss during their lesson.
• The instrumental music teachers allow children
  to call
• home only once for a forgotten instrument.

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Mrs. Youngs Teacher Site

• http//www.crsd.org//Domain/1929

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