4th Grade Newsletter
April 13, 2021
Language Arts
What are we learning?
We will be continuing our research unit! Throughout the unit we will…
- Understand the research process
- Understand how curiosity and knowledge drive research
- Understand that published research represents current understanding which continues to develop based on new discoveries
- Understand that concepts are constructed through a variety of actions and interactions with others
- Engage in inquiry to ask and seek questions to compelling questions
- Synthesize information across multiple texts and experiences in order to construct understandings
- Collaborate and discuss to seek new ideas or clarify unresolved questions
Home/School Connection
- How do researchers use their curiosity to guide their research?
- Why did you pick your research topic?
- How does curiosity and knowledge help the researcher gain a deeper understanding of the topic?
- How can published research drive our research?
- What implications does my research have on our changing world?
- What work do you do as a researcher?
- What was something you did during your research that made you proud today?
- What questions do you still have about your topic?
Math
What are we learning?
We will be completing multiplication and division unit (Part 2)! Throughout this unit we will...
- Estimate products (2 digit x 2 digit)
- Apply strategies to multiply two whole numbers (2 digit x 2 digit)
- Create and solve single-step and multistep problems involving multiplication and division
- Identify and use the appropriate symbol to distinguish between expressions that are equal and not equal, using addition, subtraction, multiplication, and division
- Identify, describe, create, and extend numerical patterns involving multiplication and division, using objects, pictures, numbers, and tables
- Interpret remainders in problem solving settings
Home/School Connection
- How would you represent a remainder in different ways?
- How can estimation support the calculation of an exact product or quotient?
- How can you use multiplication or division to solve the same problem?
- How could the same model be used to represent multiplication and division?
- How might place value understanding help solve a multiplication and division problem?
- How can you show the same value using different models?
- What relationships are there between operations?
- What are different multiplication strategies you have learned? What strategy are you most comfortable using? Why?
- What are different division strategies you have learned? What strategy are you most comfortable using? Why?
Social Studies
What are we learning?
We will be beginning our Civil War unit! In this unit we will…
- Explore the major events during the Civil War time period
- Explore the differences between northern and southern states
- Understand how the divide of Virginians led to secession, war, and the creation of West Virginia
- Describe Virginia’s role in the war
- Identify major battles that took place in Virginia
- Describe the roles of American Indians, whites, enslaved African Americans and free African Americans
Home/School Connection
- What events led to the Civil War?
- What is an abolitionist?
- Who were examples of abolitionists?
- Why might people risk their lives for a cause?
- How was life different during the Civil War time from life today?
- What effects did the conflicts between the North and South have on the people in those regions?
- Was the Civil War necessary?
- How does conflict of the Civil War continue to have lasting effects today?
- What motivates people to take advantage of others?
- How can individuals stop injustice in society?
- Who was ____? What made them important?
- Harriet Tubman
- Abraham Lincoln
- John Brown
- Henry “Box” Brown
- Robert E. Lee
- Ulysses S. Grant