All About 4th Grade

Our Year-at-a-Glance is attached below as well as a brief description of each subject's curriculum throughout the year.

Year at a Glance

Reading:

Fourth grade follows a Literacy Workshop Model. This means we will view shared texts together to analyze how authors create a text. Then students will have time to apply their thinking in their own read to self book. A strong focus is on accuracy, fluency, comprehension and vocabulary strategies. Students will also engage in both fiction and non-fiction texts throughout the school year.

Reading Strategies:

Making connections - text to self, text to text, and text to world - activate schema
Visualizing - what do you see as you read?
Questioning - use to set purpose and clarify
Inferring - use clues from the text and schema to draw conclusions
Determine Importance - use the text features, details, and the story structure to determine the main idea and to aid in summarizing the text
Synthesize - Go beyond the text to dig deeper for the meaning or theme and to add to schema

Writing:

Our first unit of study is Launching the Writing Workshop. Lessons will focus on Writer's Workshop and the daily writing targets. Writing will often include language instruction. Our writing time will also focus on the writing process and writing traits. Throughout the year we will focus on Personal Narrative, Short Story, Writing to Explain, Persuasive Writing, and Informational Writing. The students will produce some personal stories, poetry, explanation paragraphs, how-to's, and research-driven projects, all while working on specific writing targets.

This year, students will have a digital writing portfolio since finished pieces will be compiled in Google Classroom. We will continue to work on handwriting and cursive practice in their writer's notebooks. Students are encouraged to practice typing skills on Typing Club.

Math:

In fourth grade, Math will focus on building stamina with increasing mathematical concepts. Our units include Place Value and Multi-digit Addition and Subtraction, Multiplication with whole numbers, Division with whole numbers, Equations with word problems (including multi-step), Fractions and Decimals, Measurement, Geometry, and finally pulling the learning all together.

We also focus on the "WHY" to help students deepen their understanding of mathematical practices and concepts. Sometimes there are many different ways to solve a problem and we want to highlight that throughout the year.

Science:

We will compare and contrast Earth's System: Processes that Shape the Earth, Energy, Waves: Waves and Information, and Structure, Function, and Information Processing.

Social Studies:

This year, we will study Colorado's history which includes geography and major people groups throughout the years. We will start with Prehistoric People, Native Colorado Tribes, Pioneers, Miners, Trappers, and Traders. Our major focus will be on the relationship of people, animals, and their effects on the land up to present day.

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