GRADE: 4
Week of September 22
MATH
9/22.
AIM: Students To recognize an estimate and explore visual or gross estimation.
Vocabulary: compare/ order/ estimate
LESSON:
1. Vocabulary development
2. Review halfway point. Workbook pg. 9 #1-14 odd/p.s. 15-17
3. Mental Math: pg. 477 set 1, # 1-2
4. Class-work: visual estimation, text pg. 44-45 #1-6
5. Assessment activity t.e. text pg. 45
9/23.
AIM: Students will compare and order money amounts up to $999.99.
Lesson:
1. Vocabulary review
2. Problem of the day: t.e. text pg. 35i #7
3. Class-work: text pg. 53 #1, 4 , 7, 10, 13, 16, 21-22 and 25-26
4. Problem-solving: pg. 53 #27-28
5. Homework: collect newspaper ads or sale flyers. Choose ten items and list them in order from least to most expensive. Due Friday, 9/26.
9/24.
AIM: Students will round whole numbers and money amounts.
Vocabulary: rounding
Lesson:
1. Vocabulary development
2. Problem of the day: t.e. text p. 35i #8
3. Mental Math: text pg. 477 set 1 # 8-9
4. Class-work: Rounding text p. 54-55 #1-10,16-25, 31-34,&43-46
5. HOMEWORK: WORKBOOK PG. 12
9/25.
AIM: Students will make change and find its value.
Vocabulary: change/ make change/ amount given
1. Vocabulary development
2. Problem of the day: t.e. text p. 35i #6
3. Mental Math: text pg. 477, set 3, #5
4. Lesson readiness activity: t.e. text pg. 50
5. Class-work: text pg. 50-51, #1-2, 3-14(odd)
9/26.
AIM: Students will continue to make change using play money.
Lesson:
1. Vocabulary review
2. Warm-up: workbook pg. 11 #1-22 (odd)
3. Students will present homework from 9/23.
4. Class-work (play money) workbook pg. 10
SCIENCE: 4
9/22.
AIM: Students will conclude world water monitoring day, research activity.
Lesson:
1. Vocabulary review
2. Students will draw conclusions based on results from water testing
3. Show how to prepare and record data on a lab sheet
4. HOMEWORK: WB. P. 229 (answers only/ loose-leaf)
9/23.
AIM: Students will review how recycling and reusing matter can reduce waste.
Vocabulary: recycle/ reuse/ reduce/ pollution
Lesson:
1. Vocabulary review
2. List and explain what happens to matter we use?
3. Class-work: text pg. E13 Think and Write # 3-5
4. HOMEWORK: Workbook pg.230 and 232(loose-leaf/answers only)
9/24.
AIM: Review how to identify matter.
Lesson:
1. Vocabulary review.
2. Lab Activity: A. Blowing Bubbles: Activity Workbook p.140.
B. Is Bigger Always More: text p. E10
3. HOMEWORK: a. List and describe the four characteristics of matter.
b. Why is it important to reduce, reuse, and recycle? (4-6 sentences on loose-leaf.)
9/25.
AIM: TEST: MATTER
9/26.
AIM: Students will explore nonstandard and standard units of measure.
Vocabulary: length/ area/ standard units/ nonstandard units
Lesson: 1. Vocabulary development
2. Lab activity: How can you measure matter? Text p. e15
