Our Partnership This Year Will Help Your Child Be Successful

Student+Parent+Teacher=Success

Meet the Teacher• 40 years teaching experience• 20th year of teaching in Robbinsville• Reviewer of professional literature for

teachers –www.middleweb.com• Teacher Consultant-National Writing

Project@Rider University• Member of the NJDOE Teacher Advisory

Panel, 2012-ongoing• ECET2 Member• Loves teaching more and more each day

Not another survey!

Positive Behavior Support

•Realistic Fiction•Historical Fiction•Traditional Literature-Myths and Pourquoi Tales•Interpreting Poetry•Nonfiction-Science•Nonfiction-Social Studies•Analyzing Persuasive Writing Techniques•Biographies

Workshop Daily Format Mini-lesson (Whole Class Direct Instruction)Independent Reading/Writing Individual Reading Conferences

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Did You Know?

• If a child reads for 20 minutes every day, they are exposed to about 1.8 million words of text every year. That is 137 new words per minute!

• If families read together for 20 minutes a day, 7 days a week, they get more than 121 hours of bonding time every year!

• For every year you read with your child, average lifetime earnings increase by $50,000. You make a $250,000 gift to your child from birth to age five by reading aloud, just 20 minutes a day

Our fourth-grade math curriculum helps students to learn to think, reason, solve problems and apply mathematics in real life situations.

Math Workshop Approach•Mini-lesson•Whole Class Direct Instruction using whiteboards•Practice

•Games, Activities, & Written Practice •Small Group Instruction•Rocket Math •First in Math

EcosystemsElectrical Circuits

Astronomy Mini UnitMotion and Design

Hands on/inquiry based approach

•Immigration/Culture•Constitution•Regions of the United States -what determines a region•Cities and suburbs/urban growth•Civil rights•Economics-tourism, products

•ConnectedEd•First in Math•Raz-Kids•Word Processing•Class Blog •Research

•Practice (math facts)•Processing (Example: write a short diary entry, reflection)•Checking for understanding (short reading and response)•To practice skills taught in class To practice skills taught in class •To increase reading fluency (20 minutes To increase reading fluency (20 minutes a night/Readers Notebook response)a night/Readers Notebook response)

Time each nightTime each night: about forty minutes a : about forty minutes a night, including readingnight, including reading

Goal is to support classroom learning through:

Useful Information

“•Snack•” Dress for the weather—keep a sweatshirt in the class

Activities

Communication…The Key to a Successful Year