4th Grade September Newsletter
Welcome to Fourth Grade
Reading/Writing
Math
Students focus on reading historical and realistic
fiction. Students identify the characteristics of
Historical Fiction and analyze the setting and its
relationship to an event in history or time period.
Students explore the impact the setting has on the
characters and the sequence of events. Students use
their knowledge of historical fiction for a writing
project later in the marking period. During the
reading language arts block, students learn routines
and ground rules for collaborative discussions.
Students extend place value understandings
to read, write, and compare numbers to
1,000,000. Students use place value
understandings to round numbers less than or
equal to 1,000,000 to any place. The critical
understanding is that a digit in one place
represents ten times what it represents in the
place to its right. Students continue to review
and practice multiplication and division basic
facts.
Social Studies
Science
Students use different types of maps to locate and
describe natural/physical and human-made
features of Maryland and the United States today.
They analyze information to determine relationships
among geographic characteristics such as humanmade and physical features and settlement
patterns. Students also begin a timeline of history to
which they add throughout the marking period and
year.
Students explore the components of land and
water ecosystems. Students apply the
engineering design process as they construct
models of a land and water ecosystem.
Throughout this marking period students will use
these models to explore the concepts of living
things, their basic needs, and the relationships
between living organisms to each other and to
the non-living components of an ecosystem.
Important Dates!
September 7
No School
September 8
BACK-TO-SCHOOL NIGHT! 6:30 pm
September 14
Fourth grade scientists need your help! We will be building
terrariums and aquariums in order to study an ecosystem.
Please send in 2 liter plastic containers (soda containers).
We need the containers to:
-Be Clear (no color) and clean
-Have lids!
-Labels removed!
-Each class will need about 20 containers!
No School
September 22
Field Trip to Kingsley Science Center
Wise/Beck
September 24
Field Trip to Kingsley Science Center
Pickney/Haren
September 25
Community Picnic @ Daly! 5:00 pm
Thanks!
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