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Who is Ms. Zelano, your teacher?
Ms. Zelano holds Bachelor’s (Fitchburg State) and Master’s (Lesley University) degrees in elementary and special education. Although she has taught all core subjects in the past, she currently teaches 4th grade math and STEM science. Ms. Zelano has taught grades 2 through 10, but admits her most favorite grade to teach is 4th!
She firmly believes in helping her students understand what type of learner they are, teaching her students to self assess, and likes to learn from mistakes in math. Often her students are amazed to find out she LOVES mistakes! Ms. Zelano’s goal is to motivate all of her students to be challenged, inspired, and improved. She strives to develop independence in all of her students, which helps empower them for success during their 5th grade middle school transition.
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Welcome to the room website! This site is here for the convenience of both parents and students in Ms. Zelano's class! I am looking forward to a wonderful year filled with fun learning. Some of our focus areas for fourth grade science and math are multiplication of large numbers, division of larger numbers, fractions, geometry, as well as engineering, animal classification and electricity! This year, students have the opportunity to not only participate in science experiments, but they will learn and practice the engineering design process taught during STEM science exploration.
What is this Growth Mindset I keep hearing about? click here video explanation here
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Please do not hesitate to email at tzelano@nps.org should you have questions, comments or concerns. I look forward to this being a positive year for all of us and communication is key to its success. I encourage all parents to contact me directly though email so I can save your email address directly into my contacts for the year.
Please label your child’s belongings such as coats, hats, backpacks (no wheels please) and lunchboxes with both their first and last names. Should they get lost it will make it easy to return to your child. I would recommend an insulated lunchbox if your child is bring his/her lunch.
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Year at a Glance- MATH
Year at a Glance- MATH
In Grade 4, instructional time should focus on three critical areas: (1) developing understanding and fluency with multi-digit multiplication, and developing understanding of dividing to find quotients involving multi-digit dividends; (2) developing an understanding of fraction equivalence, addition and subtraction of fractions with like denominators, and multiplication of fractions by whole numbers; (3) understanding that geometric figures can be analyzed and classified based on their properties, such as having parallel sides, perpendicular sides, particular angle measures, and symmetry; (4) embedding the 8 mathematical practices.
5 Principals of EXTRAORDINARY MATH TEACHING TED TALK: click here
1. Please see 'standards explained' file uploads below:
2. Please feel free to contact me via email, note, or phone call should you have any questions throughout the school year. This site is a work in progress and I am always open to input along the way!
Overview Academic Website for most topics
1. Various Common Core support videos for 'HOW TO' for MATH :
2. How to incorporate math conversation into your daily life (research shows this helps children VERY much):
Talking Math with Kids and Bedtime Math
3. What students should be able to do at the end of 4th grade:
What are Mathematical Practices?
Click here to find out:
Math apps to support learning: click
iPad apps to support learning: click
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What's ADHD and What's NOT in the classroom? click here
Anxiety in Children: click here
OCD in the Classroom: click here
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Child Struggling?
A site that houses various resources: Intervention Central
My goals in teaching science are:
1. 1. Students are engaged; finding meaning and value in their learning and have an opportunity to examine, reflect, and communicate their understandings.
2. 2. Investigations build upon an objective based on MA Science Standards, integrating vocabulary that builds on prior knowledge and inquiry to create a learning experience which clarifies misconceptions and addresses all learning styles.
3. 3. Students know what the lesson outcomes should be and all students participate.
4. 4. The classroom establishes an environment where students are willing to take risks and tests hypotheses. The community should be one of respect, safety, and order (which doesn’t always mean neat! Sometimes learning gets messy, particularly in science!).
5. 5. Students know how they will record their learning; either by documenting data, sharing whole class, reflecting on what worked and what didn’t and in time, making guesses as to how things could be improved upon.
~Science concepts are broad and build on student interest. Engineering design is integrated when possible.
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