Fourth Grade News
December 2018
Meet the Team
Mr. Underwood
Ms. Rice
Ms. Smith
Holiday Dress Up Days
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Student of the Month: Dependable
Anna Arrington
Julia Chang
Kaylyn Blake
Curriculum
Mathematics
For the month of December, students will focus on Geometry concepts.
MGSE.4.G.1 Draw points, lines, line segments, rays, angles (right, acute, obtuse), and perpendicular and parallel lines. Identify these in two-dimensional figures.
MGSE4.G.2 Classify two-dimensional figures based on the presence or absence of parallel or perpendicular lines, or the presence or absence of angles of a specified size. Recognize right triangles as a category, and identify right triangles.
MGSE4.G.3 Recognize a line of symmetry for a two-dimensional figure as a line across the figure such that the figure can be folded along the line into matching parts. Identify line-symmetric figures and draw lines of symmetry.
Vocabulary- angles, ray, line, line segments, perpendicular lines, parallel lines, symmetry
Homework
- homework will be sent home Monday and is due on Friday
- Underwood Math Newsletter will be sent home Monday of each week
Helpful Hints
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Reading & ELA
Overcoming Obstacles
Extended Text: Riding Freedom
Reading Skills
- theme
- comparing/ contrasting theme
- text structure
Grammar Skills
- Relative pronouns and adverbs
- Progressive verbs
- Helping/ Linking verbs
Informational Writing
- Write using the informative Rubric
- practice using the flee map
- Informational Writing
- genre
- chronology
- cause/ effect
- problem/ solution
- comparison
- story
- drama
- poem
- summarize
- compare
- contrast
- relative pronoun
- relative adverb
- progressive verbs
- helping verbs
- linking verbs
- informative
Homework
- Read for at least 20 minutes
- Reading Question (Pride Time book/ Guided Reading Group book)
Social Studies
In social studies, we are currently in unit 3. The students are learning about the foundations of the US government (Articles of Confederation, constitutional convention, US Constitution, Preamble, three branches of government-executive, judicial and legislative, Bill of Rights, etc)
Key Vocabulary/ Important People:
Popular sovereignty
Constitution
Representative
Ratify
Amend
George Washington
James Madison
Benjamin Franklin
Science
Students will develop a model to describe the roles of producers, consumers and decomposers in a community. Students will also develop simple models to illustrate the flow of energy through a food web/food chain beginning with sunlight and including producers, consumers and decomposers. We will also be reading a chapter book called There's an Owl in the Shower that will address deforestation, ecosystems, and the life cycle of an owl.
Vocabulary:
Organisms
Energy
Ecosystem
Producers
Consumers
Decomposers
Food Web
Food Chain
Flow
Scarce
Extinct
Links to Websites & Tools
Items for Sale
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- erasers
- pens
- highlighters
- sharpeners
- lanyards
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