1. Welcome to fourth-grade in Room 309 Please sign in and take any handouts you need from the front table.
2. Contact Mrs. Tiggs My blog: http://mrstiggs.blogspot.com Comment directly on blog under a post Phone: 313.874.9800 x 2309 Email: jtiggs@uprep.com Please note: I am much faster at returning emails than phone messages. Conferences/meetings: Please call or email for an appointment
4. Friday Folders Each Friday a folder will come home with a weekly behavior & work habits report called a Friday Form. A check mark next to a category for the current week means that is an area where improvement is needed. A parent/guardian should initial the bottom of the page each week. These folders are due back on Mondays. The side labeled “Keep at Home” has graded papers and other notes that you should READ and keep at home.
7. What do we need from you? Help your child practice If there’s a test, replicate the conditions of the test No TV, stereo, iPod Practice math facts with triangle cards or flash cards everyday Check Homework/ELO folder and homework everyday (blog: http://mrstiggs.blogspot.com) Look for returned/checked papers, notes and Friday Forms in the yellow “Friday Folder.”
8. What do we need from you? (cont.) Help with exhibition requirements Make sure they read everyday and DISCUSS THE BOOKS WITH THEM
9. Daily Class Work Reading-Weekly Reading letters to Mrs. Tiggs, read guided & independent reading books Writing-Writing projects, entries in writer’s notebooks, grammar assignments & poetry assignments Word Study-Word Study assignments & quizzes Math-Student Math Journal pages, independent practice assignments, play EDM game assigned, & weekly quizzes Science & Social Studies-Journal pages and group projects
10. What can I expect every week? Math homework everyday!! Facts for 15 minutes Study links Journal pages Weekend Writing homework assignment on Fridays, due Monday. Post on www.schoology.com or write in Weekend Writing notebook.
12. ELO/Homework ELO Points & Grading Full credit (3 pts) is given when ELO is on time, neat, completed to student’s best ability, andall work is shown. Partial credit (2 pts) is given to on time ELO, neat and some work shown. Partial credit (1 pt) is given to on time ELO, sloppy, and little effort. No points are if work is not turned in at all. 1 point is deducted from what the total score would be if homework is turned in late. Make-up work will only be given to students who were absent. That work is expected to be handed in the following day (after the work is given).
13. What can you expect from Mrs. Tiggs? Check and return homework by Friday. Let you know what learning is going on using the blog. Be consistent and fair with students.
14. Writing This year will work on grammar and writing genre projects (eg. Personal narrative, fantasy, tall tales, position paper). The kids will collect poems, read, write poems and come to learn more about figurative language, rhyming, non-rhyming, free-verse and structured poems. Write a compare and contrast piece Use pre-writing strategies, draft and revise drafts Write simple and compound sentences, use prepositional phrases, adjectives, common & proper nouns, pronouns, use apostrophes, commas, & quotes
15. Reading Guided Reading groups/ READ 180 Identify structure of myths, poetry, legends, fantasy and adventure Understand character roles (hero/anti-hero), first person point of view, conflict and resolution Explain how authors use flash-forward and flashback to show time, setting, conflicts and resolution Identify text patterns of info text like: compare/contrast & cause and effect
16. Reading Summarize Text to self, text to text and text to world connections Predicting, Visualizing, Questioning, Rereading, Inferring
17. Mathematics Right now we are reviewing concepts from last year in preparation for MEAP. Soon we will be working on: Place value up to 1,000,000 Use factors and multiples Add and subtract whole numbers fluently Multiply (up to 3-digit by two-digit) and divide whole numbers (4-digit by 1-digit) Read, interpret & compare decimals up to hundredths place. Add and subtract decimals Understand fractions up to twelfths and compare them. Write improper fractions as mixed numbers. Add and subtract fractions. Multiply fractions by whole numbers
18. Mathematics (cont) Measure with common tools Convert measurements between units Use perimeter and area formulas Understand right angles Understand perpendicular, parallel and intersecting lines Identify basic shapes: isosceles, equilateral and right triangles Recognize symmetry, slides, flips and turns Construct bar graphs from given data. Use bar graphs to solve problems. Find the median of a set of data
