Reading/Writing
Students continue to deepen understanding in social
studies by reading informational texts on the topic
of European exploration, including firsthand
accounts and paraphrase key details to summarize.
Students analyze the cause and effect text structure
to understand the concepts and ideas associated
with the Columbian Exchange. They identify
evidence a speaker provides to support a claim
about Columbus’ contributions. Students read and
collect information about the Chesapeake Bay in
order to write an informational essay.
Social Studies
Students explore a variety of media, including
primary source/firsthand accounts, to gather and
record information about destinations, goals, and
actions of explorers during the age of European
exploration. Students examine interactions and
results of interactions between North American
native societies and European explorers. Students
explore concepts and ideas associated with
Columbian Exchange, the widespread exchange of
animals, plants, culture, human populations,
communicable disease, and ideas following the
voyage to the Americas by Christopher Columbus in
1492.
Important Dates!
Dec 10
Make-up Picture Day
Dec 24-Jan1
No School-Winter Break
Math
Students extend understandings about the
operation of division and the relationship
between multiplication and division
developed in Grade 3 to find whole number
quotients (up to 4-digit dividends and 1-digit
divisors). Students use the terms dividend,
divisor, quotient, and remainder; remainders
are interpreted based on the contexts of
problems. Students use strategies and
explanations based on place value and the
properties of operations to estimate and
calculate quotients. In marking period 2,
students apply their computational fluency
with whole numbers to solve a variety of
word problems. Students assess the
reasonableness of answers using mental
computation and estimation strategies
including rounding.
Science
Students investigate how human activity can
impact an organism’s habitat within an
ecosystem. Students identify and describe
ways individuals and groups assess the
influence of human technologies on the
environment. Students will then investigate
the natural or human-made factors that can
disrupt a stable environment and consider
how human decisions and actions throughout
the state of Maryland can be both beneficial
and harmful to the Chesapeake Bay
ecosystem.
Reading: read for 20 minutes each
night
Math: complete Monday through
Thursday 
Practice Basic Facts 
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