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Welcome to Fourth Grade
Curriculum Night
Ms. FoglemanMrs. MagillMrs. Parrish
Mrs. SwerbinskyMr. Winn
•Common Core and Essential Standards
* Third year of new curriculum, standards, and assessments•* Nationally aligned•* ”Less, but better” mindset: allows for deeper understandings and mastery •* Affects all subjects•* Integrated with 21st Century Skills•* Allows for all types of learners and skill sets•* Focuses on critical thinking and analysis across all subjects
• BOY assessments are complete
• Help determine needs and enrichment areas
• Data allows work to be differentiated
• Ongoing formal/informal assessments and flexible grouping
•Assessments
• *Also called, “Higher Order Thinking”, based on Bloom’s Revised Taxonomy of Thought.
• *Expand, analyze, and synthesize texts, tasks and problems.
• *Metacognition• *Connecting: reading, writing, speaking, listening across all subjects.
• *Allows students to think conceptually and then drill down to discrete skills.
• *’Because’…can be applied/practiced everywhere through conversation.
•Critical Thinking Skills
Synthesizing literacy componentsComprehension SkillsVocabularyFluencyWord Study/Phonics
Read aloud, shared reading, independent readingReading literature, information, foundational skills, speaking/listening strands.
Whole and Small Group Instruction DailyWork Stations and Accountability of Application MIRP
•Reading Curriculum
Narratives: Personal and ImaginativeOpinion PiecesInformational
Teacher ModeledStrategies enforced during mini lessonsConferencing with studentsWriting across the curriculum areasWriting can be assessed over timeAllows for many mediums/formats
Writing Curriculum
Math Curriculum
Whole Group, Small Group, Math Talk, Writing, Teacher Made Tasks/Projects/Stations
Five math strands across the grades: Number and Operations: Base TenNumber and Operations: FractionsGeometryMeasurement and DataOperations and Algebraic Thinking
SCIENCE
Moon PhasesRocks and MineralsAnimal StudiesMagnets and ElectricityEarth Processes
Civics and GovernmentGeography and
Environmental LiteracyHistory Social and Political
InstitutionsEconomic and Financial
LiteracyCulture
SOCIAL STUDIES
Science & Social Studies Curriculum
Daily logs
Caught Being a Hawk (individual and class)
Minor Incident Reports (MIR): In classroom write up, used as documentation before office referral
Office Referral From (ORF): Handled out of classroom, major infractions or series of repetitive MIRs
•Behavior System and REACH
Alamance Battleground- “Colonial Living”
Raleigh Trip (Spring)
Possible in school field trips for science
•Field Trips
*Check teachers’ websites weekly for updates, documents, and classroom happenings!
*Thank you for attending Curriculum Night! We hope to stay in close contact with you this school year in order to ensure your child’s academic and social success!
*Questions?
•General Questions/Information