Grade Level News

Fourth Grade - January

Literacy

Students will focus on the themes of Realistic Fiction as well as Non-fiction text.  Students will be exploring Fantasy vs. Realism by the end of the month.  In addition they will continue to focus on the skills of learning how to understand and organize their own plays.  Their comprehension skills focus will be on summarizing, monitoring/clarifying, comparing/contrasting stories, questions in stories, evaluation of text/stories.

Writing

Students will focus on learning to use end punctuations, commas, underlining titles, italics, quotation marks, and capital letters in writing.  Also, students will use the indenting of new paragraphs in their writing.  Students will focus on writing facts on a selected topic to prepare a presentation or report.

Math

Students will continue to learn about factors, multiples, equations and inequalities, multiplication and division processes as well as divisibility rules and estimation.  Mainly, students will be preparing for the quarterly assessment on January 6th-7th.  After the assessments students will be continue to focus on these recurring skills. 

Accelerated Math:

Students will continue to work with geometric figures and comparing plane figures to surfaces of solids.  Also, transformations will be explored as well as manipulation of parallel and perpendicular lines, angles, classifying quadrilaterals and congruent shapes, Geometry will continue to be the focus.

Health

This months Great Body Shop lessons will be Titled: It's My Body.  The lessons will focus on making healthy decision in regards to your personal health.  When put in unhealthy situations it is responsible to always choose the healthiest thing for your body.  Common sense decision making and avoiding unhealthy situations will be discussed as well as displaying a decision making model for kids to follow. 

Social Studies

Students will focus on the Maryland's Colonial Americans.  They will be learning and discussing their cultures, and how the early colonist exchanged goods with the existing tribes in Maryland.  Also, research of a virtual field trip which will cost nothing to the parents will be planned to substitute the field trip missed earlier in the year.  Also, students will perform a cumulative assessment as the quarter comes to an end.