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4th Grade

To find out what's happening in 4th Grade classes, read below and visit the pages below for downloads:

First Trimester

4th Grade All:

Week of Sept. 8 to 11th — We learned the rules of the computer lab and then practiced moving objects on the SmartBoard to review names of computer related objects. See 4th Grade All page below if interested in downloading either the slideshow or Notebook interactive activity.

Week of Sept. 14 to 18th — This week fourth graders created acrostic name poems by viewing the Acrostic Slideshow (see Fourth Grade All below to download) and using an  interactive acrostic tool to help create their poems.

Week of Sept. 21 to Sept. 25 —  Fourth graders practiced logging in and out using their own usernames and passwords and then got to explore links of their choice on the  Highland Student Links page.

Week of Sept. 28 to Oct. 2 — Fourth graders practiced logging in and out using their own usernames and passwords and then learned internet safety by viewing the PowerPoint slideshow (see Fourth Grade All page below to download) called Be CyberSmart.

Week of October 5 to October 9: To celebrate Hispanic Heritage Month, fourth graders students selected famous Hispanic people they wanted to learn more about by reading from the Famous Hispanics Biographies Menu
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Oct. 12 to Oct. 16 — To celebrate Hispanic Heritage Month, fourth graders viewed artwork by famous Hispanic artists from the Smithsonian American Art Museum's site Latino Voices in American Art . They listened to artist's voices describing their artwork, and compared and contrasted two pieces of artwork by these artists using a venn diagram interactive tool.

Oct. 19 to Oct. 23 — Make connections to text, within text, and among texts across the subject areas by visiting the  Bookflix

Oct. 26 to Oct 30 — Students will  examine the features of journals and diaries on the  Reading Brain  website and then select any of the related reading activities on that menu to do independently.

Nov. 2 to Nov. 6 — This week students learn to place an icon into their dock for easy access to  Scholastic's SRI  materials. Then they will take a reading placement inventory on a topic of their choice.

Nov. 9 to Nov. 13 — This week students will reflect on the theme of a story by listening to a story on the  website StorylineThank You Mr. Falker.  Listen and read along as Jane Kazmerack reads the story. When finished they record their reflection about the plot and theme and then can either learn more about dyslexia by following the link under "More Activities"  to or they can choose to listen to another story.

Nov. 16 to Nov. 20 — This week 4th grade students learned the history of our country's first Thanksgiving by viewing Discovery Education's United Streaming video  "Animated Hero Classics: William Bradford and The First Thanksgiving.

Nov. 23 to Nov. 27 — Conference Week and Thanksgiving Vacation

4th Grade Math Linger Group:
For the first trimester, students in this intervention group focus on deepening their understanding of place value concepts. For the complete listing of activities, visit the  Developing Place Value Concepts article written for TOMT magazine. Slideshows and Notebook interactive activities created for this trimester can be downloaded on the  4th Grade Math (Linger) page below.

4th Grade Math Moving On Group:
Students will solve a variety of problem solving situations related to the 4th Grade Standards. See  4th Grade Moving On

Second Trimester

4th Grade All:

Nov. 30 to  Dec. 4 — Students will view a Powerpoint slideshow called Family Fables and use it as a springboard for a discussion around the reasons why authors write stories. Then they will view a brainstorming web and listen to a teacher think aloud about ideas for possible writing projects. Finally, they will listen to an original story called The Attack of the Glue Monster written by their teacher.

Dec. 7 to Dec 11 —  Students will play the game  Just Don’t Go Over. Partners share one calculator. They do "rock, paper, scissors" to decide who goes first. The winner starts at 0 on the calculator. Then he or she  adds any number up to 5,000 to the number that is displayed. The object is to try to be the first person who gets to 100,000 without going over.
site to read and compare stories. http://www.funbrain.com/brain/ReadingBrain/ReadingBrain.html website.  Scroll through the "choose a story" menu until they find page  for a description of these activities.  Slideshows, worksheets and  and Notebook interactive files can be downloaded from the 4th Grade Moving on Download page below.
Dec. 14 to Dec. 18 — Students will send  Thank You Cards to servicemen to thank them for their service to our country

Jan. 4 to Jan. 8 — Students learned to log in to the new log in screens on the laptops and then practiced a variety of trouble shooting techniques in case software is slow to respond, there is an error message about connecting the the internet or screen or sound settings are a problem.

Jan. 11 to Jan. 15 —  Students will log into the Highland  Timez Attack site to practice basic multiplication facts for fluency.

Jan. 18 to Jan. 22 — Students will practice math test taking strategies on Eduplace's Test Quest: Be a Better Test Taker site.

Jan. 25 to Jan. 29 — Students will learn to utilize the calculator found in their dashboard to truncate and understand how to represent the decimal remainder for a division problem displayed in the calculator to the whole number remainder. 

Feb. 1 to Feb. 5 — Students will practice taking an online math test on fraction concepts found on  Eduplace Test Practice:Chapter 7  site.

Feb. 8 to Feb. 12 — Students will examine the Aesop's Fable The Tortoise and the Hare from the Hare's point of view. They will learn to copy text from a pdf file and paste it into a word document to construct a creative excuse for why Hare did not win the race.

Feb. 15 to Feb. 19 — Students will discuss together test taking strategies as they take the 4th Grade Math Mock Test 1  as a whole group. For independent practice they can select from any of the Mock Tests 2-5.

Feb. 22 to Feb. 26 — Students will view a couple videos from the  "Kids Against Bullying" website including the "Mean Girl" and "Together We Stand" Webisodes. They will listen to several poems and a song and then write their own reflective journal entries or poems and practice saving them to the desktop.

Mar. 1 to Mar. 5 — Students will order and compare fractional amounts by participating in the interactive lessons on: http://www.sheppardsoftware.com/mathgames/fractions/Balloons_fractions1.htm

Mar. 8 to Mar. 12 — Students will listen to my hero stories about my Grandpa and Dad by viewing my video and then 
will write their first draft and practice saving it to the desktop.

Mar. 15 to Mar. 18 — Students will practice saving documents  to the server.


4th Grade Math Linger:
For the second trimester, students in this intervention group focus on the operations of addition and subtraction and counting money. For the complete listing of activities visit the  Addition, Subtraction and Money page. Slideshows, Notebook interactive files and worksheets created for this trimester unit can be downloaded on the 4th Grade Math (Linger) page below.

4th Grade Math Moving On:
Students will solve a variety of problem solving situations related to the 4th Grade Standards. See  4th Grade Moving On page  for a description of these activities.  Slideshows, worksheets and  and Notebook interactive files can be downloaded from the 4th Grade Moving on Download page below.

Third Trimester

4th Grade All:

Mar. 29 to Apr 2 — Students will examine the relationship between area and perimeter  of irregular shapes by participating in the following online lesson.

Apr. 5 to Apr. 9 — Students are introduced to sample constructed response items and then practice logging in to the SRI program.

Apr. 12 to Apr. 16 — Students complete the SRI reading lexile levels test.

Apr. 19 to Apr. 23 — Students practice Multidigit Multiplication of Whole Numbers by working through Math Live Lesson # 8.

Apr. 26 to Apr. 30 — Students view the photographs from my trip to Ellis Island to illustrate my idea for the content of a Hero Story abut my grandfather. Then they will practice logging in to the Google Applications and opening up a new Google Document.

May 3 to May 7 Students will learn how to save Google document files and then brainstorm and begin the first draft of their own Hero Stories.

May 3 to May 7 — Students review how to save document files and then continue their drafts of their own Hero Stories.

May 10 to May 14 — Students complete their final drafts of Hero Stories.

May 17 to May 21 — Students review the ROSE problem solving method and then solve fraction task warm ups.

May 24 to May 28 — Students record their answers to a student survey and then have Free Choice time.

May 31 to June 4 — Students view frequency charts of the data collected from the student survey completed last week. They choose one frequency table to record on an Excel spreadsheet and use the chart making feature to create a graph of their selected data.

June 7 to June 11 — Students review math concepts presented this year by selecting from among and play games on the  Calculation Nation website.



4th Grade Math Linger: For the third trimester, students in this intervention group focus on understanding fraction and decimal concepts. For the complete listing of activities visit the Fraction and Decimals page. Slideshows, Notebook interactive files and worksheets created for this trimester unit can be downloaded on the 4th Grade Math (Linger) page below.



4th Grade Math Moving On:
Students will solve a variety of problem solving situations related to the 4th Grade Standards. See  4th Grade Moving On page  for a description of these activities.  Slide shows, worksheets and  and Notebook interactive files can be downloaded from the 4th Grade Moving on Download page below.