This document welcomes parents to their child's 4th grade class and provides information about the upcoming school year. It outlines that students will be learning under new Common Core standards and taking new EOG tests. It describes various classroom programs and homework expectations, including using NC Write for writing assignments, a Family Treasure project, and Class Dojo for communication. Parents are encouraged to contact teachers with any questions.

1. Welcome parents
to 4th grade
2012-2013
School Year

2. Welcome to Fourth Grade!
• We will try and save
time for questions,
but please use the
comment cards if
we run out of time.
We will post
answers on our
website.

3. Common Core & EOG’s
• Common Core Curriculum – New K-12
More rigorous and challenging for your
students. (More information on our website)
• New Curriculum = New testing
EOG tests in Math and Reading, but there
will be NO SCORES until October 2013.
So, no retesting.

4. Monday Folder
• Sent home every Monday
• Contains important information, student
work and bi-weekly newsletter
• Weekly Progress Report
• Please keep papers at home
Comments included (if necessary)

5. Homework Agenda
• Students should be recording their
homework each day in the agenda
• Daily reading log is used to record
reading each night.

6. NC Write
• New writing program to
improve student writing.
• Students can log-on at
home as well as school
to work on their writing.
www.ncwrite.com

7. NC Write
•The User Name is their ID #
and the password is DDE123
• Have your child show you the
program.
• Students type writing assignment,
submit it, and receive immediate
feedback from the program.

8. NC Write
• Students can then revise their paper,
based on feedback, until they achieve
the desired score.
• In addition to the feedback, a score is
provided based on a six trait rubric.
• The teacher must score the content of
the paper and suggest
improvements.

9. Family Treasure Project
A Family Treasure can be an object or a story that should be
very important to somebody for personal reasons.
 Please help your child select an object or story as their
“Family Treasure” because we will use this to help to start
forming questions for the interviewing process in class.
 After students have interviewed family members about
their treasure, we will use that oral history to prepare a
presentation in class.
 Students will be accountable for all parts of the project
and will be graded based on a rubric that they will help
develop.
 If you have any question please email

10. Class Dojo
www.classdojo.com

11. www.dillard4th.pbworks.com
• Calendar
• Team Information
• Field Trip Information and online
payment
• Tons of Resources
• Always updating….

12. Questions ????
• Add your email to parent list
• Ways to contact us
Mr. Boynton - kboynton@wcpss.net
Ms. Rizzo - srizzo@wcpss.net
Mr. Daniels – adaniels2@wcpss.net
Ms. Kissane – kkissane@wcpss.net
• Dillard Drive Elementary 919-233-4200
• Be sure to check out our weekly updates at:
http://dillard4th.pbworks.com/
Thank you for coming!
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