Reading language arts

Reading sparks the imagination! In fourth grade it is our expectation that students read at least 100 minutes per week. Allow your child to read books of their interest. Chapter books are the preferred options to read independently or with your child. Spark your child's curiosity by making predictions or changing the outcome of a story.

WORD STUDY

This year in fourth grade we will be concentrating on building a word work program. This means your students will be working with a set of words that provides opportunities to grow their word knowledge at their own pre-assessed level. Each week we focus on a different pattern/prefix or suffix meaning/ and or word derivatives. Students will have their lists written in their agendas if you would like to see the list we are currently working on. In class we practice analyzing patterns, spelling the words, and using the words in writing. There is a weekly review over patterns to help build foundations for spelling and usage in writing. Sometimes in the agenda you will see stars by certain words (NOT EVERY WEEK), and on those weeks students will be responsible for spelling those words correctly in dictated sentences.

Unit 1 target skills:

• S1 using metacognitive skills to both develop and deepen comprehension of increasingly complex texts.
• S2 responding to an increasingly challenging variety of sources that are read, heard or viewed.
• S3 recognizing and analyzing literary elements within and across increasingly complex traditional, contemporary, classical, and diverse literary text.
• S4 recognizing and analyzing genre-specific characteristics, structures, and purposes within and across increasingly complex traditional, contemporary, classical, and diverse texts.
• S5 using critical inquiry to analyze the author’s choice and how they influence and communicate meaning in a variety of text.
• S6 analyzing and applying author’s craft purposefully in order to develop their own product and performances.
• S7 using the writing process recursively to compose multiple texts that are legible and uses appropriate conventions.
• S8 composing a personal narrative composition.
• S9 composing an informational composition.

Reminder: Library is on Fridays. Please be sure your child brings their library books on Fridays for check out.

math

Welcome to Fourth Grade Math! The fourth grade experience at the Shepard Elementary School is exciting and challenging. Building on the skills developed in the primary grades, we guide fourth graders to use those skills along with number talks to further and inspire their learning. In addition to the academic work, student experience is broadened through our Mathematical Mindset model by Jo Boaler.

Unit 1 place value, Addition and subtraction

Students will know…

K1 the names of the place values.

K2 rational numbers can be represented as a decimal.

K3 rational numbers allow us to solve problems that are not possible to solve with just whole numbers.

K4 our number system is based on groups of 10.

K5 place value can be used to compare and order numbers.

K6 the location (place) of a digit in a number determines its value.

K7 numbers can be rounded to approximate their value.

K8 a number line represents the distance of a number from zero.

K9 decimal numeration is just an extension of whole number place value.

K10 points on a number line can represent whole numbers, decimals, and fractions.

K11 points on a number line represents a distance from 0.

Critical Vocabulary

• Decimals
• Ten millions
• Millions
• Tenths
• Hundred million
• Hundredths
• Billions