Elementary Schools Curriculum Night! Wednesday, August 1, 2018 Mrs. - PowerPoint PPT Presentation

Welcome to Navarrete Elementary School’s Curriculum Night! Wednesday, August 1, 2018 Mrs. Whitlark’s & PTO Opening Remarks — 5:00-5:10 PM Fourth Grade Team Session 1 — 5:15-5:35 PM Fourth Grade Team Session 2 — 5:40-6:00 PM

Meet the 4 th Grade Teachers Mrs. Boucher Mrs. Hack Miss Miller Mrs. Morse

Reading Curriculum • Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Journeys  Building vocabulary, fluency, and comprehension • Whole group/Small group instruction • Scholastic News Magazines • Author & Novel Studies • Informational Comprehension • Literature (fictional) Comprehension • Accelerated Reader ( AR )

English Language Arts Curriculum Cross Curricular Writing • Grammar Skills • Writing Process • Explanatory, narrative, opinion pieces – Up to five detailed paragraphs • 6 traits (ideas, organization, sentence fluency, word choice, voice, and conventions) • 25 Spelling words per week, weekly Friday tests

Mathematics • Fourth Grade Math Rotations • Houghton Mifflin Harcourt GO MATH! curriculum • Major Topics Taught: – Place Value & Operations with Whole Numbers (Multiplication & Division) – Fractions & Decimals - Geometry, Measurement, Data

Science Curriculum • Scientific Method • Classification of Organisms • Electricity and Magnetism Weather • Social Studies Curriculum • Arizona history • Arizona government • Arizona geography • Economics

Extra-Curricular Activity Fees • Field Trips – Arizona-Sonora Desert Museum • (NAVA ECA FEE SONORAN DESERT MUSEUM $35 ) – Zelma Basha Salmeri Gallery • On-site activities (NAVA ECA FEE GRADE 4 = $35 ) – Animal Kingdom Lessons – Childsplay Artist-in-Residence – Grand Canyon National Park Ranger

Use Infinite Campus Parent Portal to: • Pay Extra- Curricular Activity (ECA) Fee • Track Your Child’s Academic Progress • Verify Daily Attendance • Access Messages • View Quarterly Progress Reports and Report Cards

• Navarrete Character Traits – Six pillars of good character (Respect, Responsibility, Caring, Trustworthiness, Citizenship, and Fairness) • Positive Reinforcement – Verbal Praise – Awards – Fourth Grade Currency – Quarterly Auctions • Community Building - Community Circle ( Class meetings/Olweus Bullying Program)

Homework • Unfinished classroom assignments • 160 MobyMax Math minutes per quarter • 20 minutes of personal reading • Spelling Lists are introduced on Mondays. Choose activities from the back to practice throughout the week in preparation for Friday’s test.

Follow the Hawk Nightly to Soar in Fourth Grade!

CUSD80 Elementary Handbook • The green acknowledgement form is due on August 3, 2018 • NEW FOR THE PUBLICITY FIELDTHIS YEAR – Marking an “X” next to the NO on the “Welcome to our School” page means no website and no yearbook inclusion

Thanks so much for attending fourth grade’s presentation! + - x ÷ Meet your child’s math teacher before leaving.