WELCOME TO FOURTH GRADE

Mrs. Kazdan

SPECIAL HIGHLIGHTS!Service SquadBuddies Speech Contest Historical American Biography ProjectField Trips Henry Ford – If I Had a Hammer Lansing R.I.F. (?) Last Day Picnic – Spencer Park

READING WORKSHOP!Genre Study Fiction: Realistic and Historical Fiction, Fantasy,

Poetry, Myths/Legends, Adventure Non-Fiction: Autobiography, Biography, Almanac,

NewspaperRead AloudsMaking Meaning ProgramReading Groups/Book ClubsStoryworks and Scholastic NewsReading Log (To, With, and By!)Book Reports

READING WORKSHOP!

Make Connections Ask Questions Make Predictions Visualize Summarize Draw conclusions Determine Main Idea Recognize Text Structure Infer Repair Comprehension (Does it make sense?) Retelling (character, setting, problem, solution, main idea, theme)

Reader’s Notebook:

READING! Intensive amounts of reading and writing are the soul of learning. Learning of the most complex kind is acquired through old-fashioned, simple activities like meaningful reading and writing.

Once students begin to read, they learn to read better by reading – just reading. (Mike Schmoker: Focus)

READING!

Adolescents entering the adult world of the 21st century will read and write more than at any other time in human history. They will need advanced levels of literacy to perform their jobs, run their households, act as citizens, and conduct their personal lives.

Richard Vacca

SPELLING AND GRAMMAR!

Words their Way Program

Words assigned every Monday

Test every Friday

Grammar, usage and mechanics

WRITING WORKSHOP!Genres:NarrativeExpositoryPersuasiveCreative Writing

PoetryAdvertisements Recipes Fun, fun, fun!

Writing ProcessPre-Write -

BrainstormRough Draft - WriteConference - TalkRevise – Look and

ChangeEdit – CheckPublish – Final Copy!

WRITING WORKSHOP!Six (Plus One) Traits!

Sent

ence

Flu

ency

Ideas

Conventions

Conventions

Organization

Wor

d Choic

e

Voice

MATH!Number Sense and Operations: Place value to 1,000,000 Addition/Subtraction to 4-5 digits Multiplication/Division of 2-digit numbers Addition/Subtraction of fractions

Patterns, Relationships, and AlgebraGeometryMeasurementData Analysis, Statistics, and

Probability

By the end of Fourth Grade, students should be able to do:

100 Multiplication Facts in 5 minutes

and

100 Division Facts in 5 minutes

PROBLEM SOLVING STEPS!

Circle the question

Underline important information

Choose a strategy

Check your work

Write a complete answer

ADD sheets due daily

PROBLEM SOLVING STRATEGIES!Draw a diagram or a pictureMake a modelMake an organized listMake a table/graphFind a patternPredict and testGuess and checkWork backwardSolve a simpler problemWrite a number sentenceLogical reasoningProcess of elimination

MATH!

Please help your child to study math facts EVERY NIGHT! It is our school goal that all students will have the basic facts memorized!

SCIENCE!Scientific ProcessQuestion, hypothesis, experiment, data

collection, and conclusion

Hands on Experiences

Science UnitsSun, Earth, and MoonMagnets and ElectricityEcosystems

SOCIAL STUDIES!Concepts will be taught through: Geography History Government Economy

Core Democratic ValuesU.S. RegionsMaps, charts, timelines, tablesCurrent EventsHistorical Americans biographies

COMPUTERS!

Word ProcessingGraphsGraphic OrganizersInternet SearchesSkill and Concept Practice

MISCELLANEOUSMEAP Testing Healthy breakfast, good night’s sleep, positive attitude!

Grades + , , - and A, B, C, D, E

High Five/Bucket Fillers Be responsible, kind, respectful, safe, and cooperative

Homework/Planner Please continue signing the planner and reading log every night.

School Improvement Goals

Writing:

All students will increase their proficiency in written expression.

Math:

All students will increase their ability to compute math facts.

Reading:

All students will increase reading comprehension.

Students will use their three ring binders

to track the progress of these goals.

The best way to contact me is through e-mail!

kazdana@royaloakschools.com

I look forward to a

wonderful year working

with you and your

child!