Welcome to 4th Grade

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Welcome to 4th Grade!

• Curriculum Night

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Language Arts

• Language Arts now includes reading, writing,
  speaking, listening and viewing.

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Reading

• Focus on reading for comprehension
• Genre units will include novels, short stories
• Other units of study will include Poetry,
  informational text, biographies
• Comprehension strategies will include asking
  questions, visualize, making connections,
  determining most important ideas, repair
  comprehension, inference, synthesis

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Writing

• Writing is the mirror image of reading
• Research shows fine tuning students writing
  skills not only enhances comprehension but aids
  in the development of verbal communication
• We will use the 6 Traits of Writing model Ideas,
  Organization, Voice, Word Choice, Sentence
  Fluency, Conventions, and Presentation
• Childrens writing will also reflect our genre
  units

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Speaking, Listening and Viewing

• Ability to communicate ideas and information
  verbally, and through visual aides
• Children will have numerous opportunities to hone
  their verbal communication skills via
• Oral reading
• Presentations
• Reports
• Readers Theater

I love 4th Grade!!!
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Mathematics

• Units will include
• MEAP review and preparation
• Number sense and place value
• Adding and subtracting
• Multiplication 1 and 2 digit numbers
• Dividing up to 2 digit divisor
• Algebra and algebraic expressions
• Geometry perimeter, area and volume
• Angles
• Fractions
• Addition and subtraction
• Introduction to multiplication and division of
  fractions

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Mathematics

• Units continued
• Decimals
• Measurement
• Customary and metric
• Tables and graphs
• Tools
• Text
• Investigations
• Manipulatives
• Writing in math
• Online math games

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Mathematics

• Skills
• Problem solving
• Reasoning
• Number sense
• Predicting
• Estimating
• Probability

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Social Studies

• Geography and regions of Michigan
• Maps and globes
• Longitude, latitude, prime meridian, equator,
  location of the 7 continents and 4 oceans.
• Michigans first people, the Native Americans and
  their way of life.
• Copper People
• Mound Builders

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Social Studies

• The arrival of the Europeans and their impact on
  the creation of Michigan. 
• Michigans journey from a territory to a state. 
• Life in Michigan as a new state
• Michigans natural resources and their effect on
  developing Michigans economy
• Civil War and Michigans role
• Slavery
• Birth of the Automobile,
• Henry Fords enterprise. 

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Social Studies

• Brief look at the impact the Great Depression had
  on the people of Michigan, as well as, the role
  Michigan had during WWI and WWII. 
• Living and working in Michigan today, as well as,
  Michigans government system at work.

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Social Studies

• Social Studies Curriculum covers the Study of
  Michigan from a territory to a state from about
  3,000 years ago until present day.
• Throughout the year we will be incorporating the
  Core Democratic Values into different subject
  areas.

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Science

• Overall focus on the scientific method via hands
  on scientific experiments.
• Units of study include
• Magnetism
• Magnets and their poles
• Attraction/repulsion
• Electricity
• Hazards
• The meaning of charged vs. uncharged
• Open vs. closed circuits.
• Temperature
• Heat/burning/increase/Fahrenheit/Celsius
• Water Cycle
• Weather
• Matter (states)

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Science

• Geologic Features
• Landforms/glaciers
• Rocks /minerals
• Earthquakes/volcanoes
• Earths materials
• Soil
• Clay
• Rocks and minerals to understand history of the
  earth.
• Earths natural resources
• Recycling
• Erosion
• Weathering

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Field Trips Subject to Change

• Ft. Gratiot Lighthouse/Thomas Edison Museum
  September 25th and 26th
• Lansing Oct 8th and Nov. 17th
• Macomb Center for the Creative Arts (play) March
• Mackinac Trip June 4th and June 5th (4th grade
  meeting to be scheduled at the end of October)
• Cranbrook Institute of Science TBD
• Ford House TBD
• Recycling program (in house) TBD
• Additional in school field trips may be scheduled.