What Will Fourth Graders Learn This Year?

English- Nouns, Pronouns, Adjectives, Adverbs, Verbs

- Writer’s Workshop three days per week

- Daily practice of writing skills

- Essay writing- Narratives, Research, Persuasive, Informative, How-to

- Improving public speaking through demonstrations, sharing their writing

Social - Studying the five regions of the United States and their

Studies geography, environment, culture, and history

- Learning about the state of Illinois

- Learning the 50 states and capitals (not all at once!)

- Projects on various time periods in U.S. history

Reading- Reading different reading genres while covering the five components

of Reading-Fluency, comprehension, Phonemic Awareness, Vocabulary and Decoding.

- Response to Intervention Program to monitor reading skills three times weekly

Spelling- Weekly spelling lists that include words from the reading series

and a few challenging words as well

- Pretests are usually on Mondays and final tests on Fridays

- Daily practice of spelling words through the workbook pages and spelling games

Science- Topics that include both life science and physical science

- Animals, Matter, Magnetism and Electricity, Weather, The Human Body Systems, Earth’s Land and Resources

- Regular experiments that offer a “hands-on” chance to learn

- Science Lab beginning in February

- Group work that encourages cooperation

Math- The Basics- addition, subtraction, multiplication, and division

- An extension of the operations- double digit mult., long division

- Working with larger numbers

- How to become great problem solvers

- Measuring money, time, length, capacity

- Graphing and Data

- Geometry

- Applying math to real life situations every day!