Mrs. McGarvey’s
Fourth Grade Class
Room 207
The Secret Codes to Fourth
Grade
Language
Arts
Treasures Activities www.macmillanmh.com/
Treasures Reader http://macmillanmh.com/ose
Access Code: F5BAB9FOCB
Math
Access Code: B9F9244F00
Links For Kids
Character Education
Each month our school focuses on a different character trait. These traits will be discussed during our
morning meetings and reinforced throughout the day.
September-Responsibility
October-Perseverance
November-Personal
Best
December-Respect
January-Citizenship
February-Honesty
March-Good
Judgment
April-Integrity
May-
Empathy
June-Kindness
September: Sabrina,
Matthew
October: Mrs. McGarvey, Marissa, Vasudha,
Andrew
November: Michaela,
December: Carlos,
Afrin
January: Peter,
Andrew, Samantha
February: Devin
March: Scott,
Clayton
April: Adam, Soham, Jesse
May: Alexa, Anderson
June:
July: Mateo,
Gerald, Mate, Gabriela
August: William
Extra Help
Tuesday
Thursday
Our new Math
Series is by McMillan-McGraw-Hill titled
Math
Connects.
You can view the text by clicking on
the website link below.
NY State Learning Standards for English Language
Arts
· Standard
1: Language for Information and Understanding
· Standard
2: Language for Literacy Response and Expression
· Standard 3: Language for Critical Analysis and Evaluation
· Standard
4: Language for Social Interaction
.
Our reading series is
Treasures from Macmillan
McGraw-Hill
You can check it out
online by clicking the website link below.
Reminders: State
requires that each student read 25 books a year.
READ!! READ!!
READ!! READ!!
STATE
TESTS: 2010-2011
ELA - May
MATH –
May
SCIENCE
- June
ELA Assessment: The Fourth grade ELA test will be
administered in May. It is a 3 day exam
with three sections:
|
Part I |
Reading Comprehension
(multiple choice questions after several reading passages) |
|
Part II |
Listening/Writing Section:
take notes after listening to a story, answer questions, and complete a
writing piece about what you heard |
|
Part III |
Reading/Writing Section:
Short response questions
followed by an essay question |
To view a sample of the assessment, click
on the link below:
http://www.nysedregents.org/testing/elaei/07exams/home.htm
Math Assessment: The Fourth
grade math assessment will be given in May.
|
Part I |
Multiple choice
questions |
|
Part II |
Short/extended response
questions |
To view a sample of the assessment, click
on the link below:
http://www.emsc.nysed.gov/3-8/math-sample/home.htm
Science Assessment: The fourth grade science assessment will be
administered in June. It is a two day
exam with the following components:
|
Part I (no time limit) |
30 multiple choice
questions plus 12 open-ended questions |
|
Part II Performance |
|
To view a sample of the assessment, click
on the link below:
http://www.nysedregents.org/testing/sciei/science4.html
