Monday, May 4, 2009

Grade: 4 week of 5/11/09

Grade: 4
Math:

5/11
Aim: Students will read and interpret line graphs.
Vocabulary: line graph Horizontal axis vertical axis
Lesson:
1. Vocabulary review
2. Class-work:
* reading and interpreting data, text p. 246-247 #1-10
3. Homework: text p. 247 #11-18

5/12
Aim: Students will collect and represent data on a line graph
Lesson:
1. Vocabulary review
2. Problem of the day; text p. 239i #4
3. Class-work:
* smartboard activity: line graphs
* collect data create own line graph
4. Homework: workbook p. 81

5/13
Aim: Students will find numbers of combinations using tree diagrams or multiplication.
Vocabulary: tree diagram combination
Lesson:
1. Vocabulary review
2. Problem of the day: text p. 239i #6
3. Readiness activity: t.e. text p. 250
4. Class-work:
* text p. 250 -251 #1-6

5/14
Aim: Students will continue to find numbers of combinations.
Lesson:
1. Vocabulary review
2. Mental Math: text p. 480 set 10, # 8 & 10
3. Class-work: workbook p. 83
4. Homework: text p. 475 test #7, problems #1-8 notebook

5/15
Aim: Students will predict the probability of an event.
Vocabulary: probability outcome at random event
Lesson:
1. Vocabulary review
2. problem of the day; text p. 293i #7
3. Class-work:
* text p. 252-253 #1-6

Grade: 4
Science

5/11
TEST: ORGANISMS OF THE PAST

5/12
SCORING OF 8TH GRADE NYS SCIENCE TEST

5/13
Aim:Students will describe how living and nonliving things interact in the environment.
Vocabulary: ecosystem community population habitat
Lesson:
1. Vocabulary development
2. Class-work: Read/discuss p. a40-a41
* What makes up an ecosystem?
* How do living and nonliving things interact?
3. Homework: workbook p. 25

5/14
Aim: Students will explain the roles played by producers, consumers, and decomposers.
Vocabulary: producer consumer decomposer
Lesson:
1. Vocabulary review
2. Class-work: Read/discuss p. a46-a49
* Identify the different roles organisms play?
* Give examples of producers.
* How do producers affect their environment?

5/15
Aim: Students will explain the roles played by consumers and decomposers.
Vocabulary: food chain
Lesson:
1. vocabulary review
2. Class-work: read/discuss pgs. a48-a49
* What is a food chain?
* What is a consumer?
* How are herbivores, carnivores, and omnivores different?
* Why are decomposers so important in an ecosystem?
*****TEST: ORGANISMS AND WHERE THEY LIVE ON TUESDAY, MAY 19TH*****