Reading Standards
RL. 4.3
Describe in depth a character, setting, or event in a story or drama, drawing on specific details in the text (e.g., a character‟s thoughts, words, or actions).
RL 4.2
Determine a theme of a story, drama, or poem from details in the text; summarize the text.
RF 4.4
Read with sufficient accuracy and fluency to support comprehension.
a. Read grade-level text with purpose and understanding.
b. Read grade-level prose and poetry orally with accuracy, appropriate rate, and expression on successive readings.
c. Use context to confirm or self-correct word recognition and understanding, rereading as necessary.
Math Standards
4.NBT.1
Recognize that in a multi-digit whole number, a digit in one place represents ten times what it represents in the place to its right.
4.NBT.2
- Read and write multi-digit whole numbers using base-ten numerals, number names, and expanded form.
Social Studies Standards
- Explain why important buildings, statues, monuments, and place names are associated with the state's history.
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Mrs. Cochran Mrs. Cochran's class is creating their very own website! As her class studies the symbols of North Carolina, each student is responsible for sharing information on one symbol. Students are learning to manage a website, research, and collaborate with classmates! | Mrs. Ervin In fourth grade we review many topics discussed in the lower grades, but the difference is that we dig a little deeper to have a better understanding. In Mrs. Ervin's class, students are learning that when discussing the setting of a story, you should include the time, place, and environment of the story! They are practicing this with their mentor text "Thank you, Mr. Falker." | Ms. Patinka This week's math objective has introduced the power of 10! Mrs. Patinka is the queen of anchor charts where students can anchor their learning through a chart that is created during a lesson and displayed in the room. Students learned that each place in a place value chart has a value that is ten times higher than the place to it's right. |
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Mrs. LaRusso Last week, Mrs. LaRusso's class created a NC Symbols website as they learned about our state. Each student researched a particular symbol and created a page that is intended to teach the rest of the class. To end the lesson, Mrs. LaRusso created a crossword where the NC Symbols website would be the tool to find the answers. Students are in control of their learning in the 4th grade! | Mrs. Villiard Collaboration will be a large part of 4th grade! Students collaborated to find evidence of character traits that describe the two main characters from Thank you, Mr. Falker. | Ms. Willard After reading that Patricia Polacco wrote Thank you, Mr. Falker for a teacher who encouraged her in school, students in Ms. Willard's class wrote thank you letters to people who have encouraged them in life! |
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Ms. Manion This week Ms. Manion's class used "Thank you, Mr. Falker" to track the emotions of the main character Trisha. Reading can be such a struggle for some students and provides a range of emotions for each one. Trisha, who we later find out is actually Patricia Polacco, had a particularly tough time. When she meets Mr. Falker, he changes everything for her! | Mr. Dumford Mr. Dumford's class has been hard at work making a quilt! The NC ABC quilt features people, places, and events that are important to North Carolina's history. Students searched to find a topic for each letter of the alphabet. Then the class collaborated to create one list for letters A-Z. Finally each student had a hand in creating the master quilt. By next week the quilt should be assembled! | Mrs. IzzoStudents have learned how to share a google document with the proper permissions to their teachers! They also have learned how to copy and paste the url for their google docs to the dropboxes in Blackboard Learn! Some students even went so far as to usebitly.com to shorten their links. We have worked with character traits this week as well as answering comprehension questions. We are working diligently on our North Carolina Symbols, learning how to use an outline to take notes on each symbol. We are collecting 5 facts about 5 symbols of our state. We are also using North Carolina Trivia , each day a new trivia fact about our state will be introduced and there will be a quiz on Friday which will not go in the gradebook yet. Our first Wordly Wise test in on Friday, September 16th |
Ms. Manion
Mr. Dumford
Mrs. Izzo
Students have learned how to share a google document with the proper permissions to their teachers! They also have learned how to copy and paste the url for their google docs to the dropboxes in Blackboard Learn! Some students even went so far as to usebitly.com to shorten their links. We have worked with character traits this week as well as answering comprehension questions. We are working diligently on our North Carolina Symbols, learning how to use an outline to take notes on each symbol. We are collecting 5 facts about 5 symbols of our state. We are also using North Carolina Trivia , each day a new trivia fact about our state will be introduced and there will be a quiz on Friday which will not go in the gradebook yet.
Our first Wordly Wise test in on Friday, September 16th
