4th Grade Newsletter
April 18, 2022
Language Arts
What are we learning?
- Identify important information and key elements on a functional text
- Interpret the purpose of an advertisement
- Understand the components of fiction (setting, characters, plot, theme, problem, solution)
- Create a fictional story using all elements of a story
Home/School Connection
- Look at advertisements and commercials together and discuss the audience and author’s purpose
- How are these texts different then other nonfiction texts?
- Identify key elements in a story, show, and/or movie
Math
What are we learning?
- Find perimeter in Customary and metric units
- Estimate and measure length in Customary and metric units
- Identify equivalent measures of length, weight/mass, and liquid volume
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- Identify and describe the diameter, radius, chord, and circumference of a circle
- Classify and measure right, acute, obtuse, and straight angles
- Classify triangles as right, acute, or obtuse and equilateral, scalene, or isoscele
- Investigate the sum of the interior angles in a triangle and determine an unknown angle measure
Home/School Connection
- Estimate and measure length/weight/liquid volume of items at home
- Compare lengths, weights, and volumes.
- Discuss the best unit for measuring different things- when to measure with inches, pounds, or kilometers.
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- Find circles and triangles in the home and identify their parts and/or names.
- IF a protractor is available, have them measure angles of triangles.
Science
What are we learning?
- They should be able to describe the major characteristics of the sun.
- We’ll compare and contrast the surface conditions of Earth, the moon and the sun.
- They’ll find out about the contributions of the NASA Apollo missions to our knowledge of the moon.
Home/School Connection
- Ask about our solar system's star and have them describe it.
- Discuss the NASA missions to the moon and what they discovered by landing on the moon.
- Ask why the moon and earth have different surface’s.
Social Studies
What are we learning?
- Identify ideas and actions of people and groups have consequences and can shape events.
- Understand that conflict has consequences on culture, society, or a group of people.
- Realize that people respond to and resolve conflicts in many different ways.
- Develop an understanding of cause and effect and how it can help people solve problems and make decisions.
Home/School Connection
- What did freedom mean to Virginians after the Civil War? How did its meaning change over time?
- How can individuals stop injustices in society?
- Will there always be resistance to equality?
- What does it mean to be free? What does it mean to be oppressed?
- How do people draw on their culture and family to resist oppression?