This Month in 4th Grade

                                           What’s Happening in 4th Grade

during April/May

Our Learner Goals

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Reading: Students will gain knowledge about the Adventure story genre, read "Treasure Island", use context clues to make meaning of unknown words/vocabulary, and make inferences to aid in comprehension. 

Spelling/Phonics; Our lists this month will focus on words that have "-le" ending spelling patterns

See the following link for practicing spelling words using technology

https://www.spellingcity.com/users/cparks2

Language Arts; Writing/Grammar/Speaking & Listening:. Writing; develop our opinion and adventure story writing skills and engage in planning and revising of their writing. Grammar; review parts of speech; correctly identify and use conjunctions, word roots and homophones. Introduce prepositions 

Speaking and Listening; develop speaking and listening skills during small group discussions and readers' theater

Math: Geometry; The students will use strategies to identify and draw different lines and 3 and 4 sided figures as well as recognize and draw shapes with symmetry

Religion: The students will develop a deeper understanding about the Beatitudes, Apostles Creed, and the Works of Mercy

Science: The students will demonstrate understanding of Life Science concepts; how the brain responds, plant and animal structures and adaptations

Social Studies: The students will learn about economic concepts 

Technology: The students will continue improving keyboarding fluency, draft and submit writing in Google Docs and use IXL and Read Theory to support and enrich mastery of math and language arts standards