Mrs. McGarvey’s
Fourth Grade Class
Room 207
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Welcome
Back! I hope everyone had a wonderful vacation. This week we had a 21st
Century Class with Mrs. Marcis. We identified owl pellet bones and began
creating our final projects. In Social
Studies, we finished Chapter 3 on the first people of
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This
week in Language Arts, we read a story called, “My Diary from Here to There”.
We used clues from the story to help us make inferences. In Grammar, we worked
on spelling plural nouns correctly. In Math, we are working on multiplying 3
digits by 2 digit numbers. Please study math facts every night. We compared
parallel circuits to series circuits in Science. Please continue to work on
your Science Fair projects at home. “Designing the Investigation” is due on
Jan. 20.
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This four day work week seemed to go so fast. In Language Arts,
we have been practiced our listening and note taking skills. We learned about
photosynthesis in Science. We continued
to multiply with greater numbers and took a chapter 7 math test this week. We began a read aloud book called, How to
Beat the Bully Without Really Trying by Scott
Starkey and the children are really enjoying it. It gives us many opportunities
to discuss how to treat one another. The author is a fifth grade teacher from
The
Secret Codes to Fourth Grade
Language
Arts
Treasures Activities www.macmillanmh.com/
Treasures Reader http://macmillanmh.com/ose
Access Code: F5
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: Kyle, Eirini
October: Mrs. McGarvey
November: Paige,
Christina, Nicole
December: Gianna, Alex
January: Vincent
February:
March: Sean, Sean
April: Dominic,
Thomas, Madison, Anthony
May:
June: George, Alli, Amy, Adina
July: Lily, Olivia,
Eoin, Kristopher
August: Vignesh
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: 2011-2012
ELA - April 17 & 18
SCIENCE
– May/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 |
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
