Curriculum

Coronado uses Illustrative Math for our main resource for math instruction.  The big ideas in grade 4 include: developing understanding and fluency with multi-digit multiplication, and developing understanding of dividing to find quotients involving multi-digit dividends; developing an understanding of fraction equivalence, addition and subtraction of fractions with like denominators, and multiplication of fractions by whole numbers; understanding that geometric figures can be analyzed and classified based on their properties, such as having parallel sides, perpendicular sides, particular angle measures, and symmetry.  Instruction is divided into 9 units. 

1. Factors and Multiples Support Material

2. Fraction Equivalence and Comparison Support Material

3. Extending Operations to Fractions Support Material

4. From Hundredths to Hundred-Thousands Support Material

5. Multiplicative Comparison and Measurement Support Material

6. Multiplying and Dividing Multi-Digit Numbers Support Material

7. Angles and Angle Measurement Support Material

8. Properties of Two-Dimensional Shapes Support Material

9. Putting It All Together Support Material

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Coronado uses Illustrative Math for our main resource for math instruction.  The big ideas in grade 5 include: developing fluency with addition and subtraction of fractions, developing understanding of multiplication and division of fractions in limited cases (unit fractions divided by whole numbers and whole numbers divided by unit fractions), extending division to two-digit divisors, developing understanding of operations with decimals to hundredths, developing fluency with whole number and decimal operations, and developing understanding of volume. Instruction is divided into 8 units. 

1. Finding Volume

2. Fractions as Quotients and Fraction Multiplication

3. Multiplying and Dividing Fractions

4. Wrapping Up Multiplication and Division with Multi-digit Numbers

5. Place Value Patterns and Decimal Operations

6. More Decimal and Fraction Operations

7. Shapes on the Coordinate Plane

8. Putting it All Together

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Coronado uses HMH Into Reading as our main resource for literacy instruction.  Instruction is divided into 12 different modules.  

1. What Makes Us Who We Are? Family Letter

2. Come to Your Senses Family Letter

3. Rise to the Occasion Family Letter

4. Heroic Feats Family Letter

5. Art Everywhere Family Letter

6. Marvels of Nature Family Letter

7. Tricksters and Tall Tales Family Letter

8. Food For Thought Family Letter

9. Global Guardians Family Letter

10. Communication Nation Family Letter

11. Genre Study: Nonfiction Family Letter

12. Genre Study: Fiction Family Letter

Additionally, students will use Notice and Note signposts as a strategy for close reading. 

Nonfiction Signposts

Fiction Signposts

4th grade science is divided into four units. 

1. Earth's Systems: Processes That Shape the Earth

Students in this unit are learning about a variety of ways that the Earth changes over time, creating the features we see today. Using this information, students come up with and compare solutions to reduce the impacts of these changes on humans. 

2. Energy

Students in this unit are learning about types of energy beginning with renewable and nonrenewable resources and how they affect the environment. Students then begin to define energy by understanding that the faster an object moves the more energy it has and that energy can be moved (transferred) from place to place by sound, light, or electric current. The contact from a collision can transfer energy and change the motion of an object. Students then take this information to design a device that converts energy from one form to another.  

3. Waves and Information 

Students in this unit explore that waves are regular patterns of motion, looking at water to first understand that waves move up and down and can differ in amplitude and wavelength. Students are using models and the lens of patterns to understand this concept. Students better understand that information is transmitted over long distances and be converted (digitized to voice). 

4. Structure, Function, and Information Processing

Students start this unit by building evidence that plants and animals (organisms) have certain structures that function to support growth, survival , behaviors, and reproduction.  They build an argument that determines the strength and weakness of their reasoning. Students then learn and describe how animals receive and respond to information. 

One of our main resources for science instruction is Mystery Science.  

Mystery Science Standards Alignment

4th grade social studies is divided into five units, all focused on Colorado.  

1. Before the Borders of Colorado

This unit is a study in the ways that human interactions among people and cultures that have been a part of Colorado’s history have helped shape the area before the boundaries of the state of Colorado were put in place during the colonization from Spanish and European peoples. 

2. Becoming Colorado

This unit is a study in the ways that continued settlement by various groups in Colorado impacted the people already living there, shaped the land, and led to both positive and negative interactions. 

3. Defining Colorado

This unit is a study of the ways that Colorado moved from a territory to a state.  

4. Growth of Colorado

This unit is a study in the ways that Colorado developed as a state.  

5. Colorado Today

This unit is a study of the issues facing Colorado today.