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ABOUT ME
I love my job and thank you for trusting me with your child's 4th grade education. I enjoy travel, music, & swimming. A Newport Beach native, I was raised in the Central Valley and currently live here in SF with my husband and our dog.

EDUCATION
Because you choose to send your child to a Catholic school, I feel it is important to know the educational background of your child's teacher. I enjoy taking new classes to continue improving my teaching skills. My education includes:
+ Clear California Multiple Subject Credential
+ California Supplementary Authorization in English
+ M.Ed., Curriculum & Instruction, University of the Pacific, Stockton
+ B.A., Literature from University of California, Davis

EXPERIENCE
+ Fourth Grade Teacher, 8th year (SAIC)
+ High School Varsity/Junior Varsity Swim Coach
+ Fifth grade Student Teacher
+ Kindergarten Student Teacher
+ First-Third Grade Playground Leader, Montessori
+ First Grade Aide
+ Stockton Developmental Center Math/Reading Tutor (for incarcerated adults)

CURRICULUM
Areas of focus include, but are not limited to:
+ personal responsibility
+ direction-following
+ elapsed time
+ mass planning
+ Commandments
+ Beatitudes
+ Writing
+ Scientific procedure
+ Reading multiple genres
+ California history
+ Long division
+ Double and triple digit multiplication
+ Measurement
+ Capacity
+ Gardening
+ Note-taking, study & test-taking skills, and more.

COMMUNICATION
1) Please check your child’s Agenda every day so you can see what has been going on in our classroom.
S/he should bring it to you (with a pen!) so you can sign it.

2) Check our website when/if able. www.saicfourthgrade.blogspot.com

3) Email me any time. mgbair@yahoo.com

4) Catch me in carline. Wednesdays & Thursdays 3:10-3:25 p.m.

5) On Wednesdays I send home graded work and a homework notice.
A Homework Notice is a newsletter update and a mini report of any missing or absent work.
Please look at the graded work, read the Homework Notice, sign it, and let your child bring it back to school on Thursday. A study hall is available on Fridays for any students who have missing or absent work. This time is provided so that students do not fall behind.

HOMEWORK
About 30-45 minutes each night. This includes studying for upcoming tests and reading. If your child is taking much more time than this, please let me know. Please also let me know if your child is unable to do the homework on his/her own. The homework is planned so that your child can complete it without assistance. Your child should use the green folder to transport homework to and from school.

TEXTBOOKS AT HOME
Your student has been permitted to take some books home for the school year. This is because at one time we were a double graded school. Therefore, we have double sets of some (but not all) textbooks. This works out well because then students do not need to carry heavy books back and forth.

PE
Wear the PE uniform all day on Tue. & Th.

FIELD TRIPS
We will have them! I will let you know when our first one is coming up in case you’d like to be a chaperone.