Reading
Math
Students will read informational and
technical text related to science
and music content. Using text
related to content, students will
build academic vocabulary to
strategically determine the meaning
of words by consulting reference
materials. Students will examine
two informational text structures:
problem/solution and comparison text
structure and make inferences based
on evidence from the text. Finally,
students will explore literary
nonfiction by reading
autobiographies, biographies, and
memoirs.
Students will extend understandings about
fractions to represent decimals to hundredths.
Students will use visual models to help them
understand equivalency, add and subtract
decimals.
Students will apply and extend strategies for
multiplying to problems involving products of
two 2-digit numbers.
Students are expected to flexibly apply and
explain their strategies based on
understandings of place value, properties of
operations, and the relationship between
multiplication and division. Grade 4 students
are not responsible for the standard algorithms
for multiplication and division.
Writing
Students will gather, record, and analyze
information about the three regions of
colonial America, the New England, Middle,
and Southern regions in order to write an
informational essay about the regions.
Students will use the information to create an
informational writing piece about the
regions.
Science
Students will explore fossils to see how the fossils of organisms
provide insight into organisms and environments of the past. They
will examine fossils to learn about the evidence that fossils provide
about the plants, animals, and the environments in which they lived
on Earth’s surface long ago. Students will identify the relationship
between the formation of rocks and fossils as further evidence of
Earth’s changing surface over time.
Social Studies
Students will continue their study of the colonial
period by determining how geographic
characteristics affected how colonists lived and
worked in the Southern, Middle and New England
regions. Students will explore how colonists in
these regions adapted to and modified the
environment and implemented democratic ideas
and practices. Students will participate in an
historical investigation focused on the French and
Indian War to determine how European policies
affected interactions among colonists and Native
Americans and government policy in colonial
America.
Is your child reading for 20 minutes each day?
Is your child completing math homework?
Is your child fluent with their basic
multiplication and division facts?
Important Dates!
May 24
May 30
Field Trip to St. Mary’s City, MD
8:30 AM -6:30 PM
No School
Contact Us! 4th Grade Teachers
Mrs. Wise: lori_d_wise@mcpsmd.org
Ms. Pickney: carole_e_pinckney@mcpsmd.org
Mr. Haren: joseph_a_haren@mcpsmd.org
Dr. Beck: lindsey_m_beck@mcpsmd.org