4th

4th Grade Google Classroom

4th Grade Distance Learning Plan

Cassie A.Z. ~ calexander@bostonpublicschools.org

Robert Demerjian ~ rdemerjian@gmail.com, rdemerjian@bostonpublicschools.org

Xoland Green ~ xolandgreen@gmail.com, xgreen@bostonpublicschools.org

~All assignments and activities will be posted to our Google Classroom, and also through parent and student email. Each student has accessed our google classroom previously in school. They must log into their Boston Public Schools Clever Account by going to www.clever.com and clicking on “Log in as a student” in the top right corner. On the next screen, they should click on “Log in with Google” and enter their school login info. If they are having trouble accessing google classroom. Here is a link to help guide you and your child through the process:

https://bostonpublicschools.helpdocs.io/article/m4or6jd4t4-accessing-google-classroom-from-home

~We are very available to talk via email, and if absolutely necessary, by phone as well. Mrs. A.Z. is partial to texting if you do want to reach out by phone, but Mr. Demerjian does not text, and would prefer a phone call if necessary. Please do not hesitate to reach out at any time if you need clarification, support, or have any questions going forward. We will respond within 24 hours of your email unless there is some sort of emergency! Also, please remember to email all teachers, not just one! This ensures that all are on the same page, and in case one teacher is busy, the other can respond!~

Math Expectations

Topics Covered ~

Over the next few weeks, we will continue to work on fractions and related topics, where we will try to keep it to 1-2 general topics per week. This is the general timeline for the next couple of weeks:

• March 23rd - 27th ~ Fractions on a number line and Fraction word problems using mixed numbers, proper and improper fractions.

• March 30th - April 3rd ~ Converting Fractions and Multiplying Fractions by Whole Numbers.

• April 6th - 10th ~ Relating Decimals to Fractions and Working with Decimals.

• April 13th - 17th ~ Reviewing Fractions & Decimals

When & How much ~

All students should be doing some sort of math every weekday for 30 minutes to 1 hour. This should consist of any combination of the following activities:

1. Assignments posted to our google classroom using Pearson Realize, Khan Academy, or google documents.

• These assignments will be due on either Wednesdays or Fridays - due dates will be posted clearly on google classroom.

• Your child is expected to at least attempt each assignment. Please contact teachers if your child is struggling with the material, or cannot access the material for some reason.

2. Videos posted to google classroom, or sent via email, to help support learning and clarify confusion on assignments.

• Some examples of companies that we love in 4th grade that create videos are - Math Antics, Numberrock, Khan Academy and Schmoop. Feel free to google these to help get a better idea!

• *The Manning School is working on getting youtube unblocked so that we can add videos on youtube to google classroom so that students can actually watch them!*

3. Online “game-based” math programs that help support specific content areas. Our class has subscriptions to the following programs (please email teachers if your child is having trouble remembering their login info.

• Reflex Math - Support in learning times tables and addition and subtraction: www.reflexmath.com

• Prodigy Math - Game where students can “battle” other classmates while solving grade level problems. I will be updating standards and topics weekly: www.prodigygame.com

• Amplify Fractions - Lessons/Practice using Fractions. Please limit your child to 1-2 Lessons per week: my.amplify.com

ELA Expectations

Topics Covered:

Over the next few weeks, we will be doing a good amount of reading from guided reading books and responding to text in writing. Sometimes this will be annotations and sometimes this will be literature responses. We will practice revising our writing based on teacher feedback and we will also continue to meet for video chat guided reading sessions on Google Hangouts.

We will also be restarting our City Upon a Hill unit with colonial era Boston and how the city grew. The work for this portion of the unit will be based on reading complex text, making gist statements, and plotting ideas on a timeline. Eventually, kids will be asked to go to Sora and listen to our class read aloud, I Survived the Molasses Flood 1919 for whole group Hangouts discussions.

As we engage in guided reading and our Boston unit, we will be making the Genre Challenge an ongoing priority. Kids will be asked to write summaries for each book and to apply a skill from our in class work as well (for example, story structure or characterization)

When and How Much:

All children should be reading for 25 minutes per day.

All children should be submitting 4 words from their reading each Friday, plus definitions for those words as proof of having read.

All children will meet for guided reading once per week. There will be one- two (around the mid way point of the book and the end of the book) literature responses per book. They will be revised with teacher feedback.

All children will work on the Genre Challenge and submit three book summaries along with one other activity for the books (noted above), one per week starting in the second week of the month.

The City Upon a Hill unit will have assignments posted on a weekly basis. Kids will submit work via Google Docs. They will create a timeline and add to it each week.