Below are the topics fourth graders have been working on this year. A reminder that not every topic is found in the textbook. Therefore students should refer to their notebooks and weekly quizzes as their primary study guide.
I. Mathematics:
Place Value: (chapter 1 and in notebook)
- expanded from, word form, standard form up to one-million
- place value
- comparing and ordering multi-digit numbers
- rounding
- chapter review and practice: p. 64
Addition and Subtraction: ( chapter 2 and 3 and notebook)
- adding and subtracting up to six digit numbers
- relating addition and subtraction
- adding/subtracting with regrouping
- chapter 2 review and practice p. 92
- chapter 3 review and practice p. 120
Area and Perimeter: (chapter 11 and notebook)
- Using perimeter area and formulas, text p. 358-363
- comparing areas of different shapes
- comparing perimeter of different shapes
- comparing area and perimeter
Multiplication and Division: (chapter 4 and 5)
- using arrays to model multiplication and division
- missing factors: 4 x ? = 12
- multiplying up to four digits by one digit factors
- mutliplying two digit by two digit factors
- patterns in multiplication
- comparing multiplication equations and expressions
- relating multiplication and division
- two digit divided by single digit number
- identifying prime and composite numbers
II. Science
Unit I: The Nature of Science
- The scientific method
- Why do scientist follow the scientific method?
- Why is it important to collect information or data?
- How is a hypothesis different than a guess?
Unit II: Interactions of Air, Water, and Land (textbook unit-D, chapter 9 Earths Weather))
- what are natural events?
- how do natural events affect our world?
- How is weather and climate alike and different?
- What job do meteorologist do?
- What are the four properties of weather meteorologists measure?
- What Makes up the atmosphere?
- How does the sun and water affect the atmosphere?
- Compare four layers of the atmosphere?
- How does water and gravity shape earths surface? (p. c32-c39)
- What is weathering?
- what are extreme natural events?
Unit III: Properties of Water: (textbook unit-D, chapter 8 Earth's water)
- Where can water be found?
- How can water exist in different states?
- How does a change in temperature affect the state of water?
- How does earth recycle water?
- How does evaporation and condensation affect the water cycle?
- Why do clouds form?
- where does water come from?
- How does temperature affect precipitation?
