What's Happening in 4th Grade

We are so excited to start our year off with our personal narrative unit. This will let each of us share an exciting moment in our lives and get to know each other better. Here you will find the skills we will be covering in each of the 9 weeks :

• First 9 Weeks Personal Narratives and Poetry

  • Inferencing 

  • Textual Evidence

  • Character Traits

  • Sensory Details

  • Chronological Text Structure

  • Cause and Effect

  • We will also do some Student Inventor activities

• Second 9 Weeks Finish Student Inventor and Geology

  • Persuasive Writing

  • Summarizing 

  • Narrator

  • Compare/Contrast

• Third 9 Weeks American Revolution

  • Cause and Effect

  • Context Clues

  • Sequencing

  • Main Idea

  • Inferencing

  • Paired Passage

  • Informative Writing

• Fourth 9 Weeks Treasure Island

  • Review of all the standards 

• First 9 weeks

  • Data cycle with focus on bar graphs

  • Place Value

  • Addition and Subtraction Computation

• Second 9 weeks

  • Multiplication and Division I

  • Data Cycle with focus on line graphs

  • Elapsed Time

• Third 9 weeks

  • Fraction Computation

  • Start Geometry 

  • Start Measurement

• Fourth 9 weeks

  • Continue Geometry

  • Continue Measurement

  • Multiplication and Division II

First Nine Weeks

• Intro to Virginia, the Mother of Presidents

• Physical Geography

• Virginia in the Global Economy

• Indigenous People of Virginia
  
  

Second Nine Weeks

• Jamestown

• Life in the Virginia Colony

• Virginia & the American Revolution
  
  

Third Nine Weeks

• The New Nation

• Virginia & the Civil War

• Reconstruction

• Changes in the Twentieth Century
  
  

Fourth Nine Weeks

• Roles of Modern Virginians

• The Civil Rights Movement

• SOL Review