Please sign in at the back table and let me know when you are available for conferences.

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WELCOME PARENTS!

• Please sign in at the back table and let me know
  when you are available for conferences.

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BACK TO SCHOOL NIGHT4th GRADE

• Ms. Barrera

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Introduction

• Eleven years teaching experience
• Ten years teaching 4th grade
• My 7th year at Warren Point
• Your childs YEAR AS A 4th GRADER

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A Year of Firsts

• A,B,C grades
• Instrumental Band Program
• Strings
• (leaving the classroom for activities)

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Classroom Management

• No Bully Policy
• Character Education
• Positive Reinforcement
• Communication
• Class website
• Assignment Pads
• Missing Homework Slips
• BLOG Lets Check out the Site
• Link is on my school website

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Homework Policy

• Rubric
• ALL HOMEWORK ONLINE
• 3 missing homework assignments Character Court
• Absent and Homework
• After School Help
• -If I am not available any day, I will post
  it on my website.
• -Morning help available by request

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Specials Schedule

• Posted on Website

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Math Success

• Multiplication and Division Facts
• -Tested every Monday
• -IXL online Practice20-30 minutes on website
  posted online
• Curriculum long division, long multiplication,
  fractions
• Homework every night
• Tests every other week

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Social Studies (alternates with science)

• Units of study include
• Immigration
• The Lenni Lenape Tribe
• US Government
• NJs Role in the American Revolution
• Regions of the United States

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Science

• Sound
• Light
• Magnetism and Electricity
• Simple Machines
• The Human Body

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Writers Workshop

• Writing Workshop - genre based unit of study
• -Personal Narratives
• -Realistic Fiction
• -Personal Essay
• -Historical Fiction
• Sentence Expansion
• Homework every night to practice skills learned
  in class.

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Readers Workshop

• Read Aloud
• Whole class shared reading - Mini Lessons
• Independent Reading
• Guided Reading-small group
• Conferencing
• READING BOOKS ON LEVEL
• SRA

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Step into your students shoes
Pa XXXX Joanie with his dirty XXXX. Spoon rose
to follow Pa, but one of the XXXX XXXX in the
window caught the light of the real XXXX and sent
off pure white XXXX directly at Spoon. He sat
down again, XXXX by the XXXX orb, feeling as if
he was on the brink of a meaningful XXXX, on the
verge of XXXX his XXXX. His eyes darted from one
XXXX to the next. Something of Grams.
Thinking, thinking.

• 4th grade reading level

• 85 accuracy

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Lets try that again at 90...
Pa followed Joanie with his dirty XXXX. Spoon
rose to follow Pa, but one of the XXXX suns in
the window caught the light of the real XXXX and
sent off pure white XXXX directly at Spoon. He
sat down again, XXXX by the XXXX orb, feeling as
if he was on the brink of a meaningful thought,
on the verge of XXXX his XXXX. His eyes darted
from one XXXX to the next. Something of Grams.
Thinking, thinking.

• A little better

• Still not just right.

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How about 95...
Pa followed Joanie with his dirty dishes. Spoon
rose to follow Pa, but one of the XXXX suns in
the window caught the light of the real XXXX and
sent off pure white flashes directly at Spoon. He
sat down again, mesmerized by the XXXX orb,
feeling as if he was on the brink of a meaningful
thought, on the verge of solving his XXXX. His
eyes darted from one sun to the next. Something
of Grams. Thinking, thinking.

• Starting to clear up

• Lets see 100

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This is what it should sound (and feel) like
Pa followed Joanie with his dirty dishes. Spoon
rose to follow Pa, but one of the stained-glass
suns in the window caught the light of the real
sun and sent off pure white flashes directly at
Spoon. He sat down again, mesmerized by the
gleaming orb, feeling as if he was on the brink
of a meaningful thought, on the verge of solving
his problem. His eyes darted from one sun to the
next. Something of Grams. Thinking, thinking.

• So, what does that show?

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It shows us

• Under 96 is really unclear.

• Its crucial that as teachers and parents we work
  to match children to books on their LEVEL.

• Better to be too easy than too hard.

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Spelling/Word Study

• This school year, the students will be working
  with one list of words.
• There will be limited homework in this subject
  area, for the students will be completing this
  work in class.
• Fifth grade- no spelling

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Other Information

• Class Parents

QUESTIONS?