WHAT WE'RE STUDYING:
MATH:
Multiplication and Extending Division, Measuring Angles, Analyzing 2-D
Figures.............
Multiplication and Extending Division:
M4A1 a-c
M4N3
M4N4 a-d
M4N7 a-d
Measuring Angles:
M4M2 a-c
Analyzing 2-Dimensional Figures:
M4G1 a-d
M4G3 a-c
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LANGUAGE ARTS:
(Reading)
*How Do I Use What I Know to Understand How Stories Work?
Roots
Prefixes
Playful Language
Words with Multiple Meanings
ELA4R1 a-d, g
ELA4R3 b, c, e-h
ELA4R4 a, c
Multiple Meaning Words
Slang
Homophones
Antonyms
Foreshadowing
ELA4R1 a-c, e-g
ELA4R3 h, i
ELA4R4 c
(Writing)
*How do I write a response to what I read?
*How do I write a realistic short story?
Grammar
Summarizing
Theme and lessons in folktales, tall tales, and fables
Writing a response to literature
Making & supporting judgments
Beginnings & Endings
Extraneous details
Listening & speaking behaviors
Book talks & responding
ELA4C1 b, c, f, g
ELALSV1 a-f
ELA4R1 h
ELA4W2 a-f
ELA4W4 a-c
*How Do I Write a Realistic Short Story?
Improving writing skills
Problem words - homophones
ELA4C1 b, c, g
ELA4W2 a-h
ELA4W4 a-c
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SOCIAL STUDIES:
Unit - Early Explorers:
Historical Understandings:
Describes reasons for, obstacles to, and accomplishments of Spanish, French
and English explorations of Columbus, Balboa, Ponce de Leon, Cartier, John
Cabot and Henry Hudson.
Describe examples of cooperation and conflict between Europeans and Native
Americans
Identify positive character traits of key historic figures
SS4CG5
SS4H2 a, b
Geographical Understandings:
Describe how the early explorers adapted, or failed to adapt, to the various
physical environments in which they traveled.
SS4G2 b
Economic Understandings:
Describe opportunity costs and their relationships to decision making across
time
SS4E1 a
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Unit - Colonization:
Use your Resources:
Locate the thirteen colonies on a map, along with major man made features
such as New York City, Boston, Philadelphia and the Erie Canal.
Explain how physical characteristics of an area help determine economic
activities.
SS4G1 b
SS4G2 c
SS4MG1 a-i
Colonial Lives:
Compare and Contrast the lives of large land owners, farmers, artisans,
women, indentured servants, slaves and Native Americans.
Describe how key colonists (Benjamin Franklin, James Oglethorpe, Ann
Hutchinson, William Penn) exhibited traits of honesty, patriotism, courage,
trustworthiness.
SS4CG5
SS4E1
SS4H3 a, b
Working Together:
Analyze the factors that affected colonial trade.
SS4E1 b-d
SS4IP1 a-q
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Unit - Force & Motion:
Simple Machines
• List and identify the six simple machines - lever, inclined plane, wheel &
axle, pulley, wedge, and screw.
• Explain the uses of the six simple machines; and
• Describe and / or demonstrate the use of the six simple machines. S4P3 a
Force & Motion
• Observe how force affects speed and motion;
• Explain what happens to the speed or direction of an object when a greater
force than the initial one is applied;
• Describe and/or demonstrate how a force affects speed, motion, direction,
and position
• Demonstrate the effect of gravitational force on the motion of an object;
• Predict the force needed to moved different objects; and
• Demonstrate how a force can change the direction of an object already in
motion. S4P3 b-d
Unit - Light:
Properties of Light
• Identify objects that are transparent, opaque, and translucent.
• Investigate how light passes through different objects.
• Describe the properties of light. S4P1 a
Movement of Light
• Recognize that light travels in a straight line.
• Identify sources of light
• Observe the changes of the direction of light when using a mirror.
• Investigate reflections & refractions of light
• Use mirrors to reflect (bounce) light S4P1 b
Lenses and Prisms
• Compare and contrast convex and concave lenses.
• Recognize that convex lenses magnify and concave lenses make things
smaller.
• Recognize that a prism bends/refracts light separating it into colors or
visible spectrum - ROYGBIV
• Use prisms & lenses to refract (bend) light S4P1 c
Unit - Sound:
Characteristics of Sound
• Recognize vibrations cause sound
• Recognize sounds travel at different speeds through different media
(solids, liquids, gases);
• Manipulate a variety of objects to produce vibrations and create sounds
S4P2 a
Sound Changes
• Recognize that fast vibrations create a high pitch; and slow vibrations
create a low pitch.
• Identify conditions which cause changes in pitch, volume, and loudness.
• Demonstrate how to change the pitch of a vibrating object. S4P2 b
