4th Grade Newsletter
Month of May 2022
4th Grade
We are nearing the end of the school year and looking forward to seeing what all students have learned in 4th grade!
Our EOG's are going to take place during the days of May 19, 20, 23-27, 31, June 1 & 2. Your student will be assigned on 2 different days during this time period to come to a physical location assigned close to your home like a hotel conference room, to take their EOG's. Please do not make any plans during this time that will have you not able to come to your assigned testing site. More information will come about EOG testing soon. You should have gotten an email from Testing Nirvana or testingNCVA to see your assigned times/dates and place for testing.
To prepare your student for testing we can make several suggestions.
- Take your student to a public but quiet location like a library to complete schoolwork. Since we all do schoolwork from home, getting students out to a different location will help them take the EOG in a place other than their home.
- If you are fully supporting your students daily for lessons and classes, slowly start helping your student become more independent with their work. Staff are not allowed to help students at all during EOG's so having students work more independently now will help them when they take their state tests. If students do ask for help from teachers during testing, we typically tell students to try their best and use their strategies they have been taught in classes. By state regulations, this is all teachers are allowed to stay.
- Since testing is a minimum of 2 hours, make sure your student is accustomed to sitting in one area for that length of time doing school related tasks.
Remember that participation is 20% of students overall grades. We use polling options, chat, and mic responses in newrow as well as completion of assignments in Nearpod, Classkick and breakout room activities.
If you are having tech issues with anything for classes, please let your homeroom teacher know.
Learning Targets
Here are our main focus points for 4th quarter of the school year
ELA
- Answering questions for nonfiction text
- Answering questions for fiction text
- Context clues
Math
- Multistep word problems
- Multiplying and dividing numbers
- All Fraction Skills
Re-Registration
Who Should I Call?
NCVA Regions
Regions
It can be a challenge to build connections with other Learning Coaches and parents in the online community.
NCVA’s Regional Parent Groups can help you make those connections.
To join, email the Regional Parent Group for your region (use the map to find your region by county). If you would like to join more than one regional group, feel free to email more than one. Please include your name, county, student(s) grade levels, and phone number.
Region 1 ncvaregion1@gmail.com
Region 2 ncvaregion2@gmail.com
Region 3 ncvaregion3@yahoo.com
Region 4 ncvaregion4@gmail.com
Region 5 ncvaregion5@gmail.com
Region 6 ncvaregion6@gmail.com
Region 7 ncvaregion7@yahoo.com
Region 8 ncvaregion8@gmail.com
Month of May/June
- May 2nd and 3rd-NWEA Testing
- May 6th-Virtual Outings
- May 17th- Last Day for Live Classes
- May 19th-June 2nd EOG Testing
- June 2nd- Last Day of School
Progress
If students began NCVA on Aug 16, this is their expected progress for courses.
ELA: 78%
Math: 78%
Science: 78%
History: 70%
Art: 60%
Total Attendance- 972 hours
Students should be completing 2-3% of coursework each week.
Your student's course may be ending before the last day of school. Please be aware that 6 hours of attendance is required until the last of school which is June 2nd. Your teachers will be sending supplemental ideas you can do in place of OLS lessons and classes. When your student takes their EOGs, you can log that time as attendance as well under Math and ELA.