4th Grade Weekly Newsletter
March 13, 2020
FRIDAY FIVE
Here are five questions you can ask your child about a specific activity or learning content that took place this week. We are encouraging our students to become effective communicators and to share new knowledge and insights.
- What is a possessive pronoun?
- What are some effective debate strategies?
- What was life like for the Paleo Indians?
- What is the difference between the theoretical and the experimental probability? What did you learn when you worked on your penny flipping and/or dice rolling lab?
- What did you learn when you researched answers for the earth science handout?
Crystal Gardens
Learning Objectives and Assignments for the Week of March 16, 2020
*Student uses various tools to measure, collect, organize, and analyze data.
- Student makes a line plot to display a data set of measurements.
- Student labels and uses different parts of a graph accurately.
- Student uses technology to compute, represent, and evaluate.
- Student predicts, tests, and represents all possible outcomes for a simple probability situation in an organized way and uses appropriate mathematical language.
- Student uses statistical data to identify trends and to make and justify generalizations.
*Math Class Assignments:
-Statistics and Probability Test Mon., Mar. 16
-Statistic Project due Mon., April 20
*Math Homework:
-Practice 7-1 due Fri., Mar. 20
Science Objectives:
*Student examines the universe, Earth’s place in it, and the history of the Earth, with an emphasis on rocks and the rock cycle.
- Student learns about the history of the planet and explains how local, regional, and global patterns of rock formations reveal changes over time due to earth forces, such as earthquakes.
- Student learns the presence and location of certain fossil types indicate the order in which rock layers were formed.
*Science Class Assignments:
-Crystal Garden Project due Tues., Mar. 17
ELA Objectives:
*Student demonstrates command of language and its conventions of standard English grammar and usage when writing, speaking, reading, or listening.
Student spells grade-appropriate words correctly, consulting references as needed.
*Student writes various pieces for a variety of purposes.
Student writes routinely over extended time frames and shorter time frames for a range of discipline-specific tasks, purposes, and audiences.
Student writes opinion pieces on topics or texts, supporting a point of view with reasons and information.
Student introduces a topic or text clearly, states an opinion, and creates an organizational structure in which ideas are logically grouped to support the writer’s purpose.
Student provides logically ordered reasons that are supported by facts/details.
Student links opinion and reason using words, phrases, and clauses (e.g., consequently, specifically).
Student provides a concluding statement related to the opinion presented.
*Student identifies key ideas and details in literature.
- Student refers to details and examples in a text when explaining what the text says explicitly and when drawing inferences from the text.
- Student summarizes the text.
- Student describes in depth a character, setting, or event in a story, drawing on specific details in the text.
- Student determines the theme of a story from details in the text, including how characters respond to challenges.
- Student compares/contrasts two or more characters, settings, or events in a story, drawing on specific details in the text.
- Student determines the meaning of words and phrases as they are used in a text, including figurative language.
- Student determines or clarifies the meaning of unknown and multiple-meaning words and phrases based on reading and content.
ELA Homework:
-Read 20 nightly
ELA Classwork:
-Daily Grammar Activities (Grammar Notebook) - Contractions and Negatives
-Grammar Assessment Fri., Mar. 20
-Daily Word Study Activities (Word Study Notebook) - Prefixes un-, dis-, and in-
-Word Study Assessment Fri., Mar. 20
-Counterarguments for Pizza vs. Hamburger due Tues., Mar. 17
-Book Projects due Wed., Mar. 18
-Novel Groups:
Hatchet - Ch. 11-12 Vocabulary and Questions due Fri., Mar. 20
Esperanza Rising - Ch. 7 Vocabulary and Questions due Fri., Mar. 20
Social Studies Objectives:
*Student uses a variety of maps, graphs, and other representations to describe locations, identify characteristics of various places, and explain their relationships and interactions (people, weather, culture, daily needs).
*Student identifies, explains, and analyzes significant historical events and chronological sequences of events in their state.
Social Studies Classwork:
-Social Studies Week #5 Read “Prehistoric Carolina Natives” and “How Have Tools Changed Over Time?” Describe how tools have changed over time.
-Social Studies Week #5 Read “Maya Angelou” and "Ashville and the Western Mountains.”
-Social Studies Week #5 Read “Courage” and “Gray Squirrel.”
Weekly Social Emotional Learning Activity (S.E.L.)
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Website: Cary.ChesterbrookAcademy.com
Location: 130 Towne Village Drive Cary, NC 27513
Phone: 919-319-9622
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Specialty Schedule
2:35 pm Art
Tuesday - 10:20 am Music
2:35 pm PE
Wednesday - 10:20 am Spanish
2:35 pm Technology
Thursday - 10:20 am Art
2:35 pm Music
Friday - 10:20 am PE
2:35 pm Spanish
*Each specialty class is 45 minutes long.