Fourth
Grade:The Juniors
| Fourth grade is committed
to creating Life Long Learners
by expanding
on previous learning, incorporating their experiences from home, and introducing
them to new and challenging ideas throughout the year. |
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Reading/ Language
Arts
Fourth grade students apply recently learned reading skills to read books
for information and enjoyment at home and at school. They develop
an idea into a complete piece of writing with a distinctive beginning,
middle, and end. They discern fact, fiction, and inference heard, explain
the effect of cultural and historical periods use quotations, similes,
and metaphors to enhance communication, and use cross-referencing while
gathering information upon a work of literature, |
Math (to
top)
The
standards and expections for students in fourth grade involves them in
estimating addition and subtraction problems with 4-digit numbers, conceptualizing
whole number multiplication as a rectangle, and using equivalent ways to
name fractions. Students use counting, grouping, and displaying to
compare data, use patterns to make predictions, compare the area of shapes
with the same perimeter, use special geometric terms to communicate clearly
about shapes, and express the probability of an event in fractional notation.
A strong emphasis on mathematical concepts and understanding also supports
the development of problem solving. While learning mathematics, students
will be actively engaged through the use of concrete materials an appropriate
technologies such as calculators and computers. Students willbe encouraged
to use, represent, and explain the concepts, skills, symbols, and vocabulary
identified in the fourth grade standards. |
Science (to
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The
fourth grade standards stress the importance of using information, analyzing
data, and validating experimental results. Defining variables in
experimentation is emphasized, and making simple predictions from picture,
bar, and line graphs is utilized. Questioning and hypothesizing
become more detailed at this level. Relationships are investigated
in interactions among the earth and its oceans, and the earth and its atmosphere.
Students are introduced to basic principals of electricity. |
Social Studies
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The
standards for fourth grade require the students to explore regions of the
United States and the world. Historical, economic, and geographical
concepts expand discussions on national topics, developmental stages of
the nation, global issues, supply and demand, and the role of technology,
and geographic patterns. Students will participate in the process
of nomination and election of officers, understand the concept of majority,
and be able to explain motivations that contribute to conflicts and cooperation
amongnations.
(DoDEA Mannuel 2000.4-1
Sept. 1998)
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