Grade: 4
Math
5/18
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 #1-3
5/19
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: text p. 251
4. Homework: workbook p. 83
5/20
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
4. Homework: text p. 251 Choose one problem, copy and show your work on loos-leaf.
5/21
Ascension Thursday
Aim: Mass at 9 am
5/22
Aim: Students will tell which of two events is more likely or less likely to occur.
Vocabulary: more likely less likely equally likely
Lesson:
1. Vocabulary review
2. Class-work: workbook p. 84
Grade: 4
Science
5/18
Aim: Students will explain the roles played by consumers and decomposers.
Vocabulary: food chain food web
Lesson:
1. vocabulary review
2. Class-work: read/discuss pgs. a48-a49
*A. What is a food chain?
The set of steps in which organisms get the food they need to survive.
*B. What is a consumer?
A consumer is any Organism that eats producers or other consumers, to obtain energy.
*C. What are decomposers?
Organisms that break down living and dead matter into simple chemicals they use for food. The rest gets recycled into the soil.
-Bacteria –Fungi -Worms -Snails –mold etc.
5/19
Aim: Students will trace the path of energy in a food chain and food web.
Vocabulary: food chain food web
Lesson:
1. Vocabulary review
2. Class-work: Read and discuss text p. a50-a51
* What is a food web?
* How do food chains and food webs relate?
5/20
Aim: Students will review organisms and where they live.
Lesson:
1. Vocabulary review
2. Class-work:
* workbook p. 27-28
* text p. a51 questions #1-5
3. Homework: workbook p. 23-24 answers only
5/21
TEST: ORGANISMS AND WHERE THEY LIVE.
5/22
Students will observe and identify characteristics of animals.
Lesson:
1. Vocabulary review
2. Class-work: read/discuss: text p. b6-b7
-How are animals alike? -Describe a food chain.
-Explain the flow of energy through a food chain.
-What role do decomposers play in this food chain?
-Do we get our energy from the Sun? If so, how?
