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4th Grade News - November 2017
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Fourth graders will be reading biographies about important people. Students will learn about the significant contributions these important people have made to society.
Students will read and take notes by creating timelines to organize the information. Students will look at timelines and analyze the cause and effect relationships between events.
Fourth graders will work on taking notes from nonfiction texts to gain understanding of topics.
The students will begin writing in a variety of genres. All students will base their writing from a particular event based on our social studies unit. This writing unit will go until the end of the year.
Students will write informational books about Revolutionary War topics, including chapters on “All About the American Revolution” and “All About” a person, battle or event from this time.
Some other examples of writing genres for the unit are:
We will continue our unit on the American Revolution into June. Students will add onto their research on important events. Students will work in small groups and discuss cause and effect relationships between important events.
Students will work on building their vocabulary around this topic in many ways. Students will sort people into categories like loyalists and patriots. They will categories events into battles, new British laws and colonial protests.
Students will create illustrations and label them using content vocabulary to give them more practice.
Websites to support learning:
We will continue to strengthen our multiplication by two digit by two digit and four digit by one digits multiplication and division strategies. Students will learn a multiplication strategy called Break it Up. Students will also learn how multiplication can help them divide.
We will then start an investigation on collecting data and using a line plot to organize it. Students will analyze the data and make conclusions from it.
Finally, we will move into looking at decimals by taking our fraction knowledge from the prior units and applying it to decimals. Our goal is for students to recognize the relationship between fractions and decimals.
Websites that help practice what we are teaching…check these out!
https://www.firstinmath.com/
https://xtramath.org/
www.khanacademy.org
http://www.coolmath-games.com/
Find Fraction Games at:
http://www.mathplayground.com/grade_4_games.html
The fourth grade scientists have completed our Unit of Study, Magnetism and Electricity and they will complete the unit’s assessment. Students are taking home a review sheet with the date of the
exam. When your child receives their graded tests, please be sure to sign it and have your child return it to school.
We will start our next unit of study—Water. The students will explore the properties of water by using their 5 senses and discover that clean water is an odorless, transparent liquid that takes the shape of its container, and that some materials absorb or repel water.
At home, have your child investigate water and see what can be discovered about this liquid we use everyday.
Please note the upcoming dates for the New York State Grade Elementary—Level Science Test:
During the month of May, 4th graders will finish creating their Power Point presentations on the American Revolution.
During the month of May, fourth grade will be working on printmaking using foam and brayers.
This unit we will be practicing volleyball. We will work on our bumping, setting, pike/set skills in a fun competitive and social setting.
➔ What are the big ideas in your reading?
➔ Can you identify the main idea in nonfiction reading?
➔ What are some themes you see in your fiction books?
◆ friendship
◆ family
◆ honesty & trust
◆ overcoming challenges & obstacles
➔ What connections can you make between your book and real life?
➔ Are there a similar book you have read with the same topics or themes?
➔ Can you support your opinions and ideas with evidence from the text?
❖ Read every night for at least 40 minutes.
❖ Read nonfiction books.
❖ Practice multiplication facts every night.
❖ Read out loud for 10 minutes.
❖ Do some exercise every day.
❖ Eat a healthy breakfast and dinner.
❖ Get lots of sleep.
❖ Do your homework.
