4th Grade news at Virtual Schoolhouse

April Class News - Mrs. Hadden

Language Arts

• Sentence structure
• Compound sentences
• Prefix and suffix
• Writing a newspaper article
• Vocabulary words used in writing
• Choral reading
• We are reading short stories, answering comprehension questions then writing a story summary

Math

• Review rounding numbers, subtraction with regrouping, greater than/less than, fractions with common denominators
• Review lines, angles, translation, rotation, reflection
• Introduce 2-digit multiplication
• Introduce measurement linear, liquid
• Practice reading and creating graphs
• Money and decimals
• Introduce range, median, mode
• Math 5 minute facts

Science

• Matter
• Conduct experiments dealing with matter, force and motion
• Force
• Motion

Social Studies

• Ohioans at work 1870-1970
• Industry and immigration
• Modern Ohio: unemployment, the depression
• WW1
• Women go to war
• Post war Ohio 1945-2000

Bring gym clothes on Wednesdays

 

February Class News - Mrs. Hadden

Language Arts

• Sentence structure
• Adjectives and adverbs
• Descriptive story writing: a paragraph using a topic sentence, supporting details and a conclusion
• Vocabulary words used in writing
• Choral reading
• We are reading short stories, answering comprehension questions then writing a story summary

Math

• Review rounding numbers, subtraction with regrouping, greater than/less than, fractions with common denominators
• Introduce multiplication
• Introduce linear measurement
• Practice reading and creating graphs
• Money and decimals
• Math 5 minute facts

Science

• Weather unit
• Conduct experiments dealing with weather
• Create a water cycle
• Weather related disasters

Social Studies

• Ohio Growth and expansion 1780-1880
• Civil war
• Ohio becomes a state
• Battle of the Fallen Timbers

Bring gym clothes on Wednesdays