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4 Grade Flyer
October 2015
THANK YOU!
We sincerely appreciate the
feedback and praise from all the
parents who attended Back to
School Night.
LITERACY
In October students will
continue to focus on reading
selections from the
historical fiction
genre. They will
also continue to
interact with nonfiction texts
weekly. Students will build their
reading skills in many different
ways. Some of these skills will
include:
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comparing information of
firsthand and secondhand
accounts
identifying main ideas
making inferences
using cause/effect to describe
concepts
describing events using
chronological text structure
determining word meanings
by relating them to their
opposites
The Montgomery County
reading curriculum requires that
fourth graders read a minimum
of 25 chapter
books during
the school year.
Please remind
your child to read a minimum of
20 minutes per night.
WRITING
Students are writing a historical
fiction narrative this month. They
will use facts and information to
compose aspects of
their story. Also,
they will
determine a theme
based on the
problem and solution that their
characters will face. As students
revise and polish their work, they
will focus on proper capitalization,
punctuation, and word choice.
MATH
Students are continuing their
unit on Number and Operations in
Base 10. During
October, students will
focus on addition and
subtraction using the
traditional algorithm.
They will add multiple addends
and subtract numbers across a
middle zero. Also, they will apply
place value understandings to
estimate and reason about sums.
Towards the end of the month,
students will solve word problems
and equations based on addition
and subtraction algorithms.
SCIENCE
We are continuing to
work actively with
our ecosystems.
Aquariums and
terrariums have
been constructed as homes for our
mosquito fish and plants. Students
are making predictions, writing
observations, and labeling
diagrams in their science journals.
This study will culminate with
students describing the interactions
and contributions of plants and
animals living in an ecosystem.
SOCIAL STUDIES
Students are continuing
research into Native American
cultures. They will be researching
information about tribes in
Maryland, as well as these specific
tribal regions:
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Great Plains
Southwest Desert
Eastern Woodlands
Pacific Northwest
An ongoing task will have
students compare ways that these
Native American
societies used the
natural
environment to
meet their needs before the
establishment of the thirteen
British colonies.
CONFERENCES
A letter to all parents
regarding
conferences
will be sent
home at the
end of the month. We look
forward to meeting with you to
discuss your child’s progress.
Have a wonderful October!
Sincerely,
The Fourth Grade Team