Back-to-School+Night

To: 4th Grade & 5th Grade Parents From: Carol Errichetti

I would like to extend a warm welcome to everyone. Thank you for taking the time to attend “Back-to-School” night at Our Lady of Good Counsel School. As we all know, communication is of the utmost importance in working together as a team to foster the development of the great family of students we have here at our school.

__4th & 5th Grade Math and 5th Grade Honors Math__

Mathematics will consist of Problem Solving, Modeling to Represent Concepts, Computation, and Communicating Mathematically. Although one numeric grade will be given for Mathematics, a check or plus will be given for each of these components. See below for an overview of the curriculum for each grade level. (The 6th grade Math curriculum is utilized for 5th grade Honors Math students.) The textbook utilized for Math is __Scott-Foresman-Addison Wesley Mathematics__ (Pearson Education, Inc.). Marks will be determined by tests, quizzes, class work, homework, class participation, projects and/or presentations, journal entries, and completion of homework assignments. If the students play First-in-Math this year, a mark for it will be factored into the Mathematics grade as well.

It is my hope that my students will continuously recognize the use and value of mathematics in the world we live in and develop a life-long love for mathematics, thereby embracing and utilizing it to become great problem solvers in society.

__5th Grade English Language Arts__ English Language Arts will consist of Reading, Writing, Language, and Listening and Speaking this year. Mrs. Kennedy will be teaching Reading, Grammar and Vocabulary. I will be teaching Writing and Listening and Speaking. The Language component will consist of Spelling, Vocabulary, and Grammar. The //__Storytown__// series will be used for Reading and Spelling, and //__Voyages in English__// will be used for Writing and Grammar. In addition Vocabulary Workshop will be used as well. With respect to the portion of ELA that I will be teaching, book reports will be required each trimester and the students will be expected to write journal entries. In addition, the students will be expected to complete writing assignments and orally present their work as well. One numeric grade will be given for ELA; however a check or a plus will be given for each of the four components – Reading, Writing, Language, and Listening and Speaking.

Homework will be written on the board in class and posted daily at olgc.org. It is the responsibility of each student to record and complete all of his or her homework assignments.

If you should have any questions, please feel free to contact me. You can email me at carol_errichetti@yahoo.com or call me at (215) 357-1300, ext. 256.

Thank you, in advance, for all your support. I am looking forward to teaching your children this year.



Grade 4 Overview of Mathematics Standards • Use the four operations with whole numbers to solve problems. • Gain familiarity with factors and multiples. • Generate and analyze patterns. • Generalize place value understanding for multi-digit whole numbers. • Use place value understanding and properties of operations to perform multi-digit arithmetic. • Extend understanding of fraction equivalence and ordering. • Build fractions from unit fractions by applying and extending previous understandings of operations on whole numbers. • Understand decimal notations for fractions, and compare decimal fractions. • Solve problems involving measurement and conversion of measurements from a larger unit to a smaller unit. • Represent and interpret data. • Geometric measurement: understand concepts of angle and measure angles. • Draw and identify lines and angles, and classify shapes by properties of their lines and angles.
 * Operations and Algebraic Thinking**
 * Number and Operations in Base Ten**
 * Number and Operations—Fractions**
 * Measurement and Data**
 * Geometry**

Grade 5 Overview of Mathematics Standards • Write and interpret numerical expressions. • Analyze patterns and relationships. • Understand the place value system. • Perform operations with multi-digit whole numbers and with decimals to hundredths. • Use equivalent fractions as a strategy to add and subtract fractions. • Apply and extend previous understanding of multiplication and division to multiply and divide fractions. • Convert like measurement units within a given measurement system. • Represent and interpret data. • Geometric measurement: understand concepts of volume and relate volume to multiplication and to addition. • Graph points on the coordinate plane to solve real-world and mathematical problems. • Classify two-dimensional figures into categories based on their properties.
 * Operations and Algebraic Thinking**
 * Number and Operations in Base Ten**
 * Number and Operations—Fractions**
 * Measurement and Data**
 * Geometry**

Grade 6 Overview of Mathematics Standards • Understand ratio concepts and use ratio reasoning to solve problems. • Apply and extend previous understandings of multiplication and division to divide fractions by fractions. • Multiply and divide multi-digit numbers and find common factors and multiples. • Apply and extend previous understanding of numbers to the system of rational numbers. • Apply and extend previous understanding of arithmetic to algebraic expressions. • Reason about and solve one-variable equations and inequalities. • Represent and analyze quantitative relationships between dependent and independent variables. • Solve real-world and mathematical problems involving area, surface area, and volume • Develop understanding of statistical variability. • Summarize and describe distributions.
 * Ratios and Proportional Relationships**
 * The Number System**
 * Expressions and Equations**
 * Geometry**
 * Statistics and Probability**