About 4th Grade

Welcome to the 2022-2023 school year and to the FOURTH GRADE!  I am eager to work with you and your child and help prepare them for their future. Fourth grade is a fabulous year! They will be working hard to become independent learners and thinkers with strong academic and social skills.

Folders will be sent home each Friday and will contain graded work from the week. This work is yours to keep, and I encourage you to look over the work with your child so that there are not any surprises when report cards come.

  I will rarely assign homework, although your child may have homework if he/she does not complete the assigned work for the day. USING CLASSTIME WISELY IS ESSENTIAL!

 The school will provide a healthy snack for students each afternoon. You may also send in a snack for your child to keep in their backpack. Please do not send candy or soda. If you wish to send in a treat for your child’s birthday, please let me know ahead of time so I can plan for this in our schedule. These treats must be prepackaged.

 Please review the student handbook with your child and make sure you are familiar with all the information it contains. As parents, you are a vital link in your child's education. I encourage you to talk with your child about the things he/she is learning in school each day.

I can be reached by school phone or email.

(573-729-3902)

shovey@gfr2.k12.mo.us

Green Forest R-2 is a Title 1 program school. Students are provided extra help when needed by our Title 1 teachers. If you feel your child needs extra help, please let me know.

Parent Engagement

In order to better engage in your child's learning, please look over the following homework tips for some things your family can do together:

HOMEWORK TIPS FOR PARENTS

Make sure your child has a quiet, well-lit place to do homework.
Avoid having your child do homework with the television on or in places with other distractions, such as people coming and going.

Make sure the materials your child needs, such as paper, pencils and a dictionary, are available.
Ask your child if special materials will be needed for some projects and get them in advance.

Help your child with time management.
Establish a set time each day for doing homework. Don‘t let your child leave homework until just before bedtime. Think about using a weekend morning or afternoon for working on big projects, especially if the project involves getting together with classmates.

Be positive about homework.
Tell your child how important school is. The attitude you express about homework will be the attitude your child acquires.

When your child does homework, you do homework.
Show your child that the skills they are learning are related to things you do as an adult. If your child is reading, you read too. If your child is doing math, balance your checkbook.

When your child asks for help, provide guidance, not answers.
Giving answers means your child will not learn the material. Too much help teaches your child that when the going gets rough, someone will do the work for him or her.

Stay informed.
Talk with your child‘s teacher. Make sure you know the purpose of homework and what your child‘s class rules are.

Help your child figure out what is hard homework and what is easy homework.
Have your child do the hard work first. This will mean he will be most alert when facing the biggest challenges. Easy material will seem to go fast when fatigue begins to set in.


In order to better engage in your child's learning, please visit the following websites for some things your family can do together:

Websites
Game quarium   
http://gamequarium.com/   
Funbrain   
http://www.funbrain.com/index.html
Computer Lab Kids   http://computerlabkids.com 
Math Magician  
http://www.oswego.org/ocsd-web/games/Mathmagician/cathymath.html