Welcome to Fourth Grade

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Welcome to Fourth Grade!!!

• Fourth Grade Team
• Mrs. Biondi Ms. Fink
• Mrs. Bender Ms. McCarthy
• Ms. Unger Ms. Soares
• Ms. Mering Ms. Ellerbroek
• Ms. Eisinger Mrs. Berkey

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Parent Orientation Highlights

• Differences at Pond Road
• Trips and Special Events
• Cycles
• Teaming Science and Social Studies
• Reminders

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Activities and Events

• Iditarod Unit
• Read Iditarod/Stone Fox
• Follow the race on the Internet
• Iditarod Assembly
• Field Trips
• Franklin Institute
• NJ Museum of Agriculture

• Lenape Unit
• Lenape Feast (volunteers)
• NJ Museum of Agriculture
• Poetry Café
• Parents are invited to share in their childs
  creativity

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Cycles

• Students will remain with
• their homerooms
• Cycles are for a period of thirty-six days.
• Cycles are twice a day
• Students have physical education three times a
  year

• Specials same as Sharon
• Art
• Music
• Computers
• Technology
• Guidance
• Physical Education
• Health
• Spanish

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Teaming Science

• Teaming Experience in Fourth Grade
• Switching Teachers for Science and Social Studies

• Science Curriculum
• Inquiry Based Units
• Topics
• Ideas Inventions
• Electricity
• Ecosystems
• Motion and Design
• Oceans

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Teaming Social Studies

• Begin Year With
• Map Skills
• Land of NJ

• What Role Did NJ Play In the History of Our
  Country?
• Lenape Indians
• Exploration
• Change from British Rule to Rule of the People
• Revolutionary War
• Government
• Industrial Revolution
• Immigration
• Present Day NJ

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Balanced Literacy

• Reading
• Guided Reading
• Shared Reading
• Independent Reading
• Word Works
• Whole Class Novels
• Focus on comprehension strategies

• Writing
• New program Units of Study by Lucy Calkins
  where authors are used as mentors to study
  various genres of writing
• Integrates reading and writing by using a
  writers notebook to practice areas of study

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Math

• Everyday Math
• Spiraling curriculum
• Children work daily in small groups, partners,
  and individually
• Student success
• Improvement in skills

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Reminders

• It will help make a difference if you.
• Help your child master multiplication facts
• Practice working with a combination lock
• Encourage healthy lunch choices
• Check website for updated information
  (http//wtpsmercer.k12.nj.us )
• Also look for.
• Teachers introductory note in late August
• Fourth Grade Supply List

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Thank You

• Thank you for your anticipated support, effort,
  and cooperation.
• We look forward to meeting you and your child
  soon.