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Welcome to Navarrete Elementary Schools Curriculum Night! Wednesday, August 1, 2018 Mrs. Whitlarks & 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


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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

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Meet the 4th Grade Teachers

  • Mrs. Boucher
  • Mrs. Hack

Miss Miller

  • Mrs. Morse
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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)
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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

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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
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Science Curriculum

  • Scientific Method
  • Classification of Organisms
  • Electricity and Magnetism
  • Weather

Social Studies Curriculum

  • Arizona history
  • Arizona government
  • Arizona geography
  • Economics
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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

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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

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  • 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)

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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.

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Follow the Hawk Nightly to Soar in Fourth Grade!

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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

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Thanks so much for attending fourth grade’s presentation!

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Meet your child’s math teacher before leaving.