Ms. Gomes Fourth Grade School Back to

Ms. Gomes Fourth Grade

Back to School NightAugust 18, 2021

Welcome parents!

• Welcome to our classroom

• Goals for open house:

o To help parents understand the work students will be doing throughout the school year.

o To explain expectations for all students.

o To share information about how parents can support student learning.

Classroom Management

• We implement the Responsive Classroom program into our teaching sessions to build a social emotional learning foundation for our students. The goal of Responsive Classroom is to encourage respectful, responsible and collaborative learners. We will use Morning Meetings each day to check in and have an element of sharing and fun.

• Marble Jar• Group points• Individual tickets

Digital CitizenshipDigital citizenship is more important now than ever for the safety and effectiveness of online learning. To help with this, we highly recommend that you go to the Common Sense Media website and familiarize yourself with “Parents Need to Know” in the “For Parents” tab.

https://www.commonsensemedia.org

I will be moderating all comments and questions on Google Classroom. I will often enable and disable this feature as the social commenting can become excessive. Please direct your child to use the comments feature for academic related questions and let’s save our community chats for Fridays. We also ask that students DO NOT start a private google doc and share it with friends for private chatting purposes. Thanks!

Classroom Expectations

• Turn in work on time

• Communicate with the teacher and others respectfully

• Read all instructions and show quality work

• Keep desk and classroom clean

• Come dressed appropriately

• Come ready to learn

• Always be kind

• Growth mindset – positive attitude, self efficacy

• Be organized - implementation of planner

English Language Arts

The fourth-grade team will be using the following curriculum to support Common Core skills mastery:

• Benchmark Advance Reading & Grammar

• i-ready reading

• Spelling

• Step up to writing

• Novel Studies: Island of the Blue Dolphins, Esperanza Rising, The Great Horn Spoon

• Writing topics will include: opinion essays, persuasive, informational reports, mystery narratives, journaling, summaries

Math

Fourth grade will be using envision 4th grade math, i-ready, and stations to help students master the Common Core State Standards for fourth grade mathematics

Please practice multiplication facts each night with your student!!

Science

Students will be taught utilizing Next Generation Science Standards (NGSS) through the following curriculum:

• Mystery Science

• Amplify

• Hands on experiments and activities

History

Fourth grade is an exciting year learning about California history including the Gold Rush!!

We will be using TCI which offers informational text, online notebook, formative assessments and activities.

I will also set up a gold rush store during this unit in which students will earn gold pieces to spend at the end of the unit (more information to come)

Physical Education and Music

• Our class is scheduled for P.E. lessons with Coach James each Wednesday at 11:45 am. Please have students dress accordingly.

• Music will take place twice a week on Monday and Tuesday mornings from 8:30-9:05am. Please arrive on time so that you do not miss valuable music time.

• We have an amazing PTO and encourage you to sign up! Spirit wear sales will begin soon, more information to come.

• Sadly, we are NOT expecting any field trips this school year. We will be looking to supplement with virtual opportunities instead.

• Contact me: [email protected] – email is the best way to contact me.

Wrapping it up