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In The Classroom – As your child’s teacher, I promise to…

• Use the latest research to teach students.

• Provide open communication through folders, conferences, phone calls and notes.

• Establish collaboration with the support teachers for student instruction and scheduling/pull-out.

• Provide materials that are interesting and motivating.

• Help parents understand instructional practices, class expectations, and grading policies.

• Plan meaningful lessons that meet individual student needs.

• Provide a safe school environment that promotes learning and encourages a partnership with the school.

• Employ effective classroom management skills.

• Promote a feeling of belonging for all.

At Home – As the child’s parent/guardian, I promise to…

• Read nightly with my child.

• Help my child with his/her homework.

• Provide an appropriate area for doing  homework.

• Engage in activities that encourage learning.

• Provide encouragement and positive reinforcement.

• Talk with my child about his/her school day.

• Attend school activities & parent-teacher conferences.

• Show respect with my words and actions for my child, other children, and their families, the teachers, and the school.

• Communicate and work with the school to encourage my child’s learning and positive behavior.

• Ask specific questions to stimulate my child’s conversation/oral language skills.

• Encourage regular & prompt attendance.

• Help my child be responsible for school technology (Chromebook/laptop, chargers, and headphones). 

A sample of what your child will be learning in 4th grade Language Arts: 

• Describing basic elements of stories – such as characters, events and settings

• Paying close attention to key features of informational books and articles

• Comparing ideas, characters, events, and settings in stories and myths from different cultures

• Paraphrasing and responding to information presented in discussions

• Reporting orally on a topic or telling a story with enough facts and details

• Writing complete sentences with correct capitalization and punctuation

• Relating words that are common in reading to words with similar and opposite meanings

Some activities you can do to support Language Arts learning at home: 

• Urge your child to use logical arguments to defend his or her opinion.  If your child wants a raise in allowance, ask him or her to research allowance systems and, based on that research, explain reasons why, supported by facts and details.

• Talk about the news together.   Pick one story in the news, read it together, and discuss with your child what it means.

• Keep books, magazines and newspapers at home.  Make sure your child sees you reading.

A sample of what your child will be learning in 4th grade Math:

• Using whole-number arithmetic to solve word problems

• Adding and subtracting whole numbers quickly and accurately

• Multiplying and dividing multi-digit numbers using models.

• Understanding and applying equivalent fractions

• Adding, subtracting, and multiplying fractions in simple cases and solving related word problems

• Understanding simple decimals in terms of fractions

• Measuring angles and finding unknown angles in a diagram

Some activities you can do to support Math learning at home: 

• Look for “word problems” in real life.  Some fourth grade examples might include:

  • Ask your child to compare numbers using phrases like “times as much.”  For example, if the family cat weighs 8 lbs. and the family dog weighs 56 lbs., how many times as much does the dog weigh compared to the cat.

  • Ask your child to help you compare fractional amounts – for example, if one recipes calls for ¾ of a cup of oil, but another calls for 2/3 of a cup of oil, which recipe calls for more oil?