4th Grade News

November 2021

Reading:

Our in depth author study continues. Students are focusing on recognizing various types of figurative language in the novels they are reading. Further, students are honing in on what it is they enjoy about their chosen author and making wonderful connections to the style of writing and use of figurative language by individual authors. To wrap up this project, students are creating an advertisement to convince their audience that their author is the BEST one of all. Students are developing a presentation of their informed opinion for our AIG class.

Project directions and expectations are posted in our Google Classroom.

September and October 2021

Math

We have begun exploring the concept of area and perimeter while looking for the best house. Students are working in teams to finish a project titled Digital House Hunters. Our focus centers around the NCSS standard which is as follows:

NC.4.MD.3

Solve problems with area and perimeter.

• Find areas of rectilinear figures with known side lengths.

• Solve problems involving a fixed area and varying perimeters, and with a fixed perimeter and varying areas.

Reading:

We have begun our in depth author study in a PBL format. PBLs are Problem Based Learning projects. Students will be examining and evaluating specific author writing styles, comparing them to each other and to their own style of writing and book genre preferences. We will also, integrate the use of various types of figurative language found in novels and how this type of language can enhance a story. In class, we are referring to this PBL as a quest with the title, 'My Kind of Author' and 'Author Said What?'. Our project expands the NCSS RL.4.1 and RL.4.2 (identifying themes and how characters are developed through actions, words and thoughts).