Important
All students have been provided access to various sites posted below. A log in sheet was sent home with them for each individual site. Also, all should have access to our Google Classrooms using their school log ins.
Announcements
Dear Fourth Grade Families,
I would like to take the opportunity to introduce myself. My name is Rory Laverty and I am honored to be your child’s fourth grade teacher.
I am looking forward to working with you and your child in reaching his or her full potential. We will have many wonderful experiences and opportunities to learn and grow in the days and months ahead.
I believe that communication is the key to a great parent-teacher relationship. I encourage you to contact me if you have any questions or concerns at any time. You can send me a note or email me at rlaverty@nyackschools.org. For individual concerns, I will contact you by phone, send a note home, or email you (if an email address is provided).
I am looking forward to a wonderful and exciting year with you and your child!
Assignments and Activities
Please use the below links if you need to access sites for math and reading. Log in information has been provided to all students. Contact me if you are unable to log in!
4th Grade Nyack Google Classroom: https://classroom.google.com/u/0/c/NjI2MzEzMjQ2NzVa
Reading A-Z: https://www.raz-kids.com/
Dreambox: https://www.dreambox.com/
IXL Math: https://www.ixl.com/recommendations/
Zearn Math: https://www.zearn.org/
Brainpop: https://jr.brainpop.com/
Contact Information
Mr. Rory Laverty
You can reach me at rlaverty@nyackschools.org
You can also contact me on ClassDojo!
Class Resources
ELA
We use Fountas and Pinnell as our reading program within the classroom. The program has many components that offers multiple opportunities for differentiation within the classroom.
The program includes:
- A balance of informational and literary texts.
- High-quality, complex texts for close reading and analysis.
- Text-dependent questions and tasks.
- Using text evidence in writing and to answer questions.
- Writing to sources.
- Reading multiple texts about the same domain to facilitate knowledge-building.
- General academic and domain specific vocabulary
- Short texts and extended readings.
Math
- Place Value
- Comparing and Ordering Numbers
- Addition/Subtraction (review)
- Multiplication/Division
- Problem Solving
- Rounding/Estimation
- Perimeter and Area
- Geometry
- Measurement/Time
- Money
- Data and Graphs
- Decimals
- Fractions
Science
- Energy and Speed
- Transfer and Energy in Collisions
- Energy and Electric Currents
- Plant and Animal Parts
- Review for State Test
- Plate Tectonics
- Renewable and Non-Renewable Energy
Social Studies
- Geography of NY
- Native Americans of NY
- Exploration of the Americas
- Colonial Period in NY
- Revolutionary War in NY
- New Nation
- Government
- Industrial Growth and Expansion
- Urbanization