Welcome lifelong learners to 4th grade! Our hope is that your love for reading, writing, math, science, and history will multiply throughout the year. Let's have a great year!


Week of Apr 29th ~ May 3


Language Arts
In reading, students will identify the reasons and evidence to support the point that kids can make a difference and be heroes, paraphrase and take notes on information, and cite text evidence. On Thursday, students will discuss with their peers issues in the community and decide on an issue to take action on and improve, develop an action plan with their project team outlining how they will contribute to the class' project to address an issue in the community. 

In ALL Block, students will identify and use relative pronouns and adverbs, summarize a text, and use prepositional phrases. 


 
Important Vocabulary Words to Know
paraphrase, community, reasons, evidence, categories, issue, contribute, summarize, relative pronoun, relative adverbs, prepositional phrases.

Math
In math, students will review for the GMAS.
Important Vocabulary Words to Know quadrilaterals, polygon, square, rectangle, rhombus, trapezoid, parallelogram, angle, degree, area, perimeter, length, width, formula

Science
Students will explain, design, and construct devices that use light and/or sound to communicate across a distance.
Important Vocabulary Words to Know
sound, vibrations, waves, energy, strength, speed, pitch, volume

Social Studies
In social studies, students will the unit on Reconstruction. We will be discussing the Freedmen's Bureau and sharecropping. 


Important Vocabulary Words to Know
Freedmen’s Bureau, amendments, abolish, slavery, enslaved people, sharecropping, reconstruction