Grade: 4
Math
12/8.
Aim: Students will use front-end estimation and rounding to estimate products.
Vocabulary: front-end estimation rounding
Lesson:
1. Vocabulary review
2. Mental math: text p. 479, set 9, #4 & 10
3. Independent practice: text p. 137 #16-33
12/9.
Aim: Students will use front-end estimation and rounding to estimate products.
Vocabulary: front-end estimation rounding
1. Vocabulary review
2. Problem solving: addition and subtraction practice using technology.
3. Group work: Problem solving estimating products using front-end digits.
4. *** Homework: Textbook p. 136 #1-15 (notebook)***
12/10.
Aim: Students will use front-end estimation and rounding to estimate products.
Lesson:
1. Vocabulary review.
2. Mental Math: text p. 480, set 11 #1
3. Problem of the day: t.e. text p. 125i, #11
4. Review front-end product estimation, text p. 137 #37-40
5. Estimating products by rounding factors, text p. 148 #1-15
6. *** HOMEWORK: Workbook p. 38 in notebook. ***
12/11.
Aim: To estimate products using rounding.
Lesson:
1. Vocabulary review.
2. Mental Math: text p. 479 set 9, #7-8 & p. 478 set 6, #6
3. Multiplying with regrouping, text pgs. 140-141 & 144-145
4. *** HOMEWORK: WORKBOOK P. 44 in notebook ***
12/12.
Aim: To multiply 3-4 digit multipliers with regrouping.
Lesson:
1. Vocabulary review
2. Problem of the day: t.e. text p. 125i, #7 & 9
3. Multiplying with regrouping, text pgs. 141 & 145
4. Problem solving; text p. 141 #19-27 & p. 145 #21-28
Grade: 4
Science
12/8.
Aim: Explore what you see when you mix colors of light.
Vocabulary: spectrum
Lesson:
1. Lab activity #10:
-What do you see when you mix colors of light? text p. F41
OR
-Seeing Different Colors, activity workbook p. 182
12/9.
Aim: Students will continue exploring what happens when you mix colors of light.
Lesson:
1. Vocabulary review
2. Lab activity #10, continued.
12/10.
Aim: Students will describe visible light as a part of the electromagnetic spectrum.
Vocabulary: wavelengths spectrum
Lesson:
1. Vocabulary development
2. Read/discuss: What is light? Text p. f42-f43
3. *** Homework: workbook p. 293 ***
12/11.
Aim: Students will compare refraction and reflection of light.
Vocabulary: refraction reflection
Lesson:
1. Vocabulary review
2. Read/discuss, text p. f44-f47
-How does light travel?
-What is reflection?
-What is refraction?
12/12.
Aim: Comparing reflection and refraction, continued.
Lesson:
1. Vocabulary review
2. Class-work: workbook p. 294
