Welcome to Grade 4

Introductions and Procedures

Grade 4

AGENDA

Welcome to Grade 4
Whos Who?
Overview of Learning
Technology - Student Use/
Communication
Assessments - Common / Grade Level

THE TEAM
4H: Hilary Lockhart
4L: Lisa Lebiecki
AT: Livia Suvada
4B: Dan Browne
4T: Anna Karin Ternsj
EAL: Will Porter
LRC: Pablo Ramirez

WORKSHOP MODEL
Cross disciplinary framework used across all core
subjects
Mini Lesson
Task (individual, partner or small group)
Feedback and Conferencing
Reflection

UNITS OF STUDY
3 Science Units and 2 Social Studies Units
Human Body
Medieval Times
Electricity
Rainforests
Forms of Energy
Geography is embedded throughout the year

LITERACY
Realistic Fiction (Narrative)
Informational Writing
Persuasive Writing
Reading Workshop
Reading Every Day

MATH
7 Math Modules following U.S. Common Core

Place Value, Rounding, and Algorithms for Addition and

Subtraction
Unit Conversions and Problem Solving with Metric Measurement
Multi-Digit Multiplication and Division
Angle Measure and Plane Figures
Fraction Equivalence, Ordering, and Operations
Decimal Fractions
Exploring Measurement with Multiplication

HOME LEARNING
30 - 50 minutes per day
Main Focus is Reading - at least 20 minutes per
day
Occasional math problems/times tables practice
World language
Word study or language review
Occasional Project research

TECHNOLOGY
Student Use
Laptops
Computer Lab
Digital Passport
Communication
Cyberbullying
Creative Credit

Privacy
Searching

COMMUNICATION

Email
Home Folder
Weebly
Conferences

WEEBLY
http://grade4mainaisb.weebly.com

Parent/Student Handbook
Program of Studies
Home Learning Guidelines
Subject Resources
Links to Class Websites
Links to Specials Websites

ASSESSMENTS
Common Grade 4 Assessments
MAP
Fountas & Pinnell
Writing on Demand (Narrative writing in August & May)
Math Benchmark
Class Assessments
Unit Assessments
Math (End of Unit)
All formative and summative assessments are used to differentiate
for individual students and support learning

TAKE-AWAYS
Organisation, Responsibility and
Independence
High Expectations
Safe and Responsible Environment
- Risk Taking
- Mistakes

VIDEO

THANK YOU!
PLEASE MAKE YOUR WAY TO YOUR CHILDS CLASSROOM

Welcome
to
4L!

As soon as I open it, I occupy the book, I stomp around in it.

I underline passages, scribble in the margins, leave my mark
in effect I write my own book, a counterversion. Ive come to
understand that there are two dramas in reading: the drama of
the books internal relations and the drama of its relation to
me. Sometimes, by default, the second is the better one.
Broyard, Anatole. "The Price of Reading Is Eternal Vigilance."
The New York Times 10 Apr. 1988: n. pag. Print.

3 Critical Areas for Grade 4

Mathematics
Developing fluency with multi-digit multiplication and of dividing
to find quotients involving multi-digit dividends
Developing an understanding of fraction equivalence, addition
and subtraction of fractions with like denominators, and
multiplication of fractions by whole numbers
Understanding that geometric figures can be analyzed and
classified based on their properties (such as having parallel
sides, perpendicular sides, particular angle measures, and
symmetry.

C.C.E.
Check, Create, Extend

Ms. L.s iron-clad, insanity-preventing

home learning policy:
You may turn in homework that is incomplete as
long as you (the child) write me (the teacher) a
note that:
1.
2.

Identifies specifically what you didnt

understand.
Describes or shows what you did to try to
figure it out.

Thank you
for coming.