ast Ms. Stedeford s Fourth Grade Week of March 4 th March 8 th They ELA: The anchor story this week is a fantasy: The World According to Humphrey. The students will use literary strategies to comprehend the text at a deeper level. Other topics include: Theme, point of view, comparative & superlative adjectives & adverbs, & using context to define vocabulary. Math: This week students will finish geometry with finding unknown angle measures, classifying triangles, & finding examples of geometry vocabulary in the world around us. Science: Energy & Ecosystems: Natural resources, renewable & nonrenewable resources, recycling, the importance of water, environment, conservation, & pollution. Social Studies: This week the students will learn about the Southeast today and its place with the rest of the United States. March 11- What s the Scoop? NewsELA (topic: Opinion) March 13- Math Test March 14- Science Test March 15- Grammar & Spelling Tests March 18- Recipe Due March 22- Spelling Test ½ Day (noon dismissal) Upcoming Dates: April 1-5- Spring Break (school closed) April 16-18- Report Card Conferences (half days for students) April 19- School Closed (Good Friday) Please make sure students are emptying out their Homework Folders on the Take Home Side. What s the Scoop? NewsELA (March 11 th ) Ad Prima Recipe (March 18 th ) March Book Report- Mystery (March 29 th ) Picture Book Project (April 15 th ) AStedeford@adprimacharterschools.org
ELA Goals Spelling Words 1. Event 2. Humor 3. Rapid 4. Music 5. Relief 6. Planet 7. Detail 8. Unite 9. Frozen 10. Figure 11. Siren 12. Polite 13. Hotel 14. Protest 15. Punish 16. Defend 17. Relay 18. Habit 19. Student 20. Moment Vocabulary Words 1. Appreciate 2. Blaring 3. Combination 4. Racket 5. Suggest 6. Nocturnal 7. Effort 8. Promptly 9. Introduce 10. Feats Standards: Determine theme from details/summarize (RL.4.2) Explain major differences between poems, drama, and prose/refer to their structural elements (RL.4.5) Read and comprehend literature (RL.4.10) Refer to details and examples when explaining what the text says explicitly and when drawing inferences (RI.4.1) Determine the main idea and explain how it is supported by details/summarize (RI.4.2) Explain events, procedures, ideas, and concepts in a text (RI.4.3) Determine the meaning of general academic and domain-specific words and phrases (RI.4.4) Describe the overall structure of a text or part of a text (RI.4.5) Interpret information presented visually, orally, or quantitatively (RI.4.7) Use knowledge of letter-sound correspondences, syllabication patterns, and morphology to read accurately (RF.4.3a) Read on-level text with purpose and understanding (RF.4.4a) Read orally with accuracy, appropriate rate, and expression (RF.4.4b) AStedeford@adprimacharterschools.org
Use precise language and domain-specific vocabulary (W.4.2d) Provide a concluding statement or section (W.4.2e) Orient the reader by establishing a situation and introducing a narrator or characters/organize an event sequence (W.4.3a) Use dialogue and description to develop experiences and events or show characters responses (W.4.3b) Use transitional words and phrases to manage the sequence of events (W.4.3c) Use concrete words and phrases and sensory details (W.4.3d) Provide a conclusion (W.4.3e) Develop and strengthen writing by planning, revising, and editing (W.4.5) Conduct short research projects that build knowledge through investigation (W.4.7) Write routinely over extended time frames and shorter time frames (W.4.10) Pose and respond to questions and make comments that contribute to the discussion and link to others remarks (SL.4.1c) Paraphrase portions of a text read aloud or information presented in diverse media and formats (SL.4.2) Identify reasons and evidence a speaker provides to support points (SL.4.3) Report on a topic or text, tell a story, or recount an experience/speak clearly at an understandable pace (SL.4.4) Choose words and phrases to convey ideas precisely (L.4.3a) Choose punctuation for effect (L.4.3b) Explain the meaning of similes and metaphors in context (L.4.5a) Recognize and explain the meaning of idioms, adages, and proverbs (L.4.5b) Demonstrate understanding of words by relating them to their opposites and t words with similar meanings (L.4.5c) Acquire and use general academic and domain-specific words and phrases (L.4.6) Listen to fluent reading Identify reasons and evidence Acquire and use vocabulary Identify main ideas and details in a biography Use details from the text to visualize Notice the text structure or the way an author organizes ideas Recognize idioms and its purpose in a text Explain how the main idea is supported by key details Use details and examples to explain the text Write an explanation Read and comprehend informational text Refer to details and examples to analyze a text independently Write about an explorer Acquire and use vocabulary in speaking and writing Recognize the different shades of meaning among words
Use the relationship between synonyms to better understand word meanings Read orally with accuracy, appropriate rate, and expression Spell words with the VCCV pattern Draft, revise, proofread, edit, and publish a personal narrative Vocabulary Math Goals 1. Acute angle 2. Acute triangle 3. Adjacent angle 4. Angle 5. Arc 6. Collinear 7. Complementary angles 8. Diagonal 9. Equilateral triangle 10. Figure 11. Interior of an angle 12. Intersecting lines 13. Isosceles triangle 14. Line 15. Line of symmetry 16. Line segment 17. Obtuse angle 18. Obtuse triangle 19. Parallel 20. Perpendicular 21. Point 22. Protractor 23. Ray 24. Right angle 25. Right triangle 26. Scalene triangle 27. Straight angle 28. Supplementary angles 29. Triangle 30. Vertex 31. Vertical angles Standards: Recognize angles as geometric shapes that are formed whenever two rays share a common endpoint, and understand concepts of angle measurement (4.MD.5) o An angle is measured with reference to a circle with its center at the common endpoint of the rays, by considering the fraction of the circular arc between the points where the two rays intersect the circle. An angle that turns through 1/360 of a circle is called a one-degree angle, and can be used to measure angles o An angle that turns through n one-degree angles is said to have an angle measure of n degrees Measure angles in whole-number degrees using a protractor. Sketch angles of specified measure (4.MD.6) Recognize angle measure as additive. When an angle is decomposed into nonoverlapping parts, the angle measure of the whole is the sum of the angle measures of the parts. Solve addition and subtraction problems to find unknown angles on a diagram in real world and mathematical problems (4.MD.7) Draw points, lines, line segments, rays, angles (right, acute, obtuse), and perpendicular and parallel lines, Identify these in two-dimensional figures (4.G.1)
Classify two-dimensional figures based on the presence or absence of parallel or perpendicular lines, or the presence or absence of angles of a specified size. Recognize right triangles as a category, and identify right triangles (4.G.2) Recognize a line of symmetry for a two-dimensional figure as a line across the figure such that the figure can be folded along the line into matching parts. Identify linesymmetric figures and draw lines of symmetry (4.G.3) Reason abstractly and quantitatively. Students represent angle measures within equations, and when determining the measure of an unknown angle, they represent the unknown angle with a letter or symbol both in the diagram and in the equation. They reason about the properties of groups of figures during classification activities (MP.2) Generate a number or shape pattern that follows a given rule. Identify apparent features of the pattern (4.CA.5) Use right angles to determine whether angles are equal to, greater than, or less than right angles. Draw right, obtuse, and acute angles Identify, define, and draw perpendicular and parallel lines Use a circular protractor to understand a 1-degress angle as 1/360 of a turn. Explore benchmark angles using the protractor Use varied protractors to distinguish angle measure from length measurement Measure and draw angles. Sketch given angle measures, and verify with a protractor Identify and measure angles as turns and recognize them in various contexts Decompose angles using pattern blocks Use the addition of adjacent angle measures to solve problems using a symbol for the unknown angle measure Science Goals Distinguish between habitat and niche Distinguish between population and community Explain the organization of populations, communities, and ecosystems Describe an organism s niche at various stages of its life cycle Demonstrate that a food chain shows how energy moves from producers to consumers Recognize that energy for most food chains begins with energy from the sun Distinguish between herbivores, carnivores, and omnivores Recognize the organisms higher in the food chain are affected by changes in the number of organisms lower in the food chain Explain why all animals depend on producers such as plants Define and explain the term natural resource Explain the importance of natural resources such as water, animals, and plants
Explain the importance of rocks, minerals, and ores Explain the importance of energy sources Explain the importance of forests, soil, and land Define pollution and conservation Describe how human activity affects ecosystems Social Studies Goals Categorize places, people, and events related to the Southeast Organize information in an outline Compare and contrast physical features of the Southeast Understand how people in the region use natural resources Understand how and why Americans protect and preserve their environment, history, and culture Understand how the geography of the Southeast affected settlement and early life in the region Analyze the causes and effects of the Civil War Understand rights and responsibilities of United States citizenship Understand regional and global interdependence and trade Analyze the economic effects of advance in transportation