Marilyn Simmons, Teacher
4th Grade
Reading.
- Read a variety of text including magazines, newspapers, recipes, charts, graphs, brochures, step-by-step instructions, nutrition labels, fiction, nonfiction, poetry, and riddles.
- Tell his/her reaction to narratives, biographies, and autobiographies.
- Use reading as a major source of information.
- Offer reasons for how the story makes you feel.
- Use suffixes (ex: -ly, -er), prefixes (ex: pre-, tri-) and word parts to determine meanings of new words.
- Use a variety of strategies when reading to unlock meaning of the text (ex: predicting, confirming, self-correcting, and sampling).
- Change pace of reading according to the type of text read.
- Ask questions about text while reading.
- Tell in own words what a paragraph or passage is saying.
- Use reference materials: thesaurus, encyclopedia, dictionary, atlas, and Internet to get information.
- Use books and other materials to get information.
- Talk about themes of stories as related to self and others.
- Make assumptions and draw conclusions based on factual information and stories read.
- Know the characteristics of narrative text, both personal and imaginative (make-believe).
- Ask questions to determine point of view of text.
- Organize information using graphic organizers or outline.
- Talk about characters in text and determine possible motives.
- Know that authors and illustrators have different voices and styles.
- Follow written instructions.
Math 4th
Operations and Algebraic Thinking
- Use the four operations with whole numbers to solve problems.
- Gain familiarity with factors and multiples.
- Generate and analyze patterns.
Number and Operations in Base Ten
- Generalize place value understanding for multi-digit whole numbers.
- Use place value understanding and properties of operations to perform multi-digit arithmetic.
Number and Operations—Fractions
- Extend understanding of fraction equivalence and ordering.
- Build fractions from unit fractions by applying and extending previous understandings of operations on whole numbers.
- Understand decimal notation for fractions, and compare decimal fractions.
Measurement and Data
- Solve problems involving measurement and conversion of measurements from a larger unit to a smaller unit.
- Represent and interpret data.
- Geometric measurement: understand concepts of angle and measure angles.
Geometry
- Draw and identify lines and angles, and classify shapes by properties of their lines and angles.
Mathematical Practices
- Make sense of problems and persevere in solving them.
- Reason abstractly and quantitatively.
- Construct viable arguments and critique the reasoning of others.
- Model with mathematics.
- Use appropriate tools strategically.
- Attend to precision.
- Look for and make use of structure.
- Look for and express regularity in repeated reasoning
3rd Grade
Reading:
- Read for pleasure, read to get information, and read to support personal opinions.
- Read a wide variety of materials such as books, magazines, newspapers, lists, letters, personal stories, make-believe stories, factual information (non-fiction), and labels.
- React to poetry, informational, step-by-step, and story text, telling what was liked and what was not liked.
- Recommend books and other materials to friends.
- Make predictions about what happens next using text clues.
- Check self while reading independently using meaning clues, grammar clues, and phonic clues in text.
- Use strategies of reading ahead and review back to check and clarify meaning.
- Use synonyms.
- Summarize
- Know and use headings, subheadings, bold print, italics, and parentheses as help to understand what is read.
- Interpret poetry and know that stanza and verse are characteristics of poems.
- Tell main idea, lesson, or moral of fairy tales, tall tales, fables, legends, and myths.
- Know difference between fact and opinion.
- Tell cause and effect relationships.
- Tell likenesses and differences of characters, events, episodes, and/or stories.
- Tell likenesses and differences of poems, informational texts, and other types of materials read.
- Know simile (comparison using “like” or “as”) and metaphor (comparison which is implied) as figurative language.
- Know and use details.
- Read and understand maps, charts, diagrams, and graphs
Math:
Operations and Algebraic Thinking
- Represent and solve problems involving multiplication and division.
- Understand properties of multiplication and the relationship between multiplication and division.
- Multiply and divide within 100.
- Solve problems involving the four operations, and identify and explain patterns in arithmetic.
Number and Operations in Base Ten
- Use place value understanding and properties of operations to perform multi-digit arithmetic.
Number and Operations—Fractions
- Develop understanding of fractions as numbers.
Measurement and Data
- Solve problems involving measurement and estimation of intervals of time, liquid volumes, and masses of objects.
- Represent and interpret data.
- Geometric measurement: understand concepts of area and relate area to multiplication and to addition.
- Geometric measurement: recognize perimeter as an attribute of plane figures and distinguish between linear and area measures.
Geometry
- Reason with shapes and their attributes.
Mathematical Practices
- Make sense of problems and persevere in solving them.
- Construct viable arguments and critique the reasoning of others.
- Model with mathematics.
- Use appropriate tools strategically.
- Attend to precision.
- Look for and make use of structure.
- Look for and express regularity in repeated reasoning
3rd/4th
Science:
Students will become scientifically literate citizens who develop and apply the skills of scientific inquiry by:
- Solving problems by applying scientific/mathematical reasoning
- Safely using the tools of science through active, hand on experiences
- Analyzing and synthesizing information and communication understanding of science concepts
Language Arts 3rd /4th
- Analyzing the impact of authors’ word choice and context.
- Examining the reasons for characters’ actions.
- Identifying and examining characters’ motives.
- Considering a situation or problem from different characters’ points of view.
- Analyzing differences among genres.
- making inferences and drawing conclusions about characters, events and themes
- Paraphrasing what was said.
- Interpreting speaker’s verbal and non-verbal messages.
- Interpreting speaker’s purposes and/or intent.
- Proofread and correct most misspellings independently with reference to resources
- (e.g., dictionaries, thesauri, glossaries, computer spell-checks, and other classroom
- Use correct capitalization (e.g., names of languages, nationalities,
- musical compositions) and punctuation (e.g., commas in a series, commas in direct address, commas and quotation marks in dialogue, apostrophes in possessives.
- Use oral and written language present information and ideas in a clear, concise manner.
- Discuss, solve problems and make decisions
Social Studies:
Describes how communities work to accomplish common tasks:
§ Students will understand that a community’s established location is affected by a variety of factors.
§ Students will understand that cultural diversity enhances a community.
§ How do natural and economic resources effect the establishment of a community?
§ How do climate and physical features affect the establishment of a community?
§ What is cultural diversity and how does it contribute to a community’s identify?
§ Writing:
§ Write for extended periods of time.
§ Use standard spelling most of the time.
§ Use correct punctuation most of the time.
§ Pre-write, using a drawing, brainstorming, webbing, or story boarding activity.
§ Use paragraphs and concepts of order and time to organize information.
§ Use the writing process: pre-writing, drafting, revising, editing, and publishing.
§ Proofread and edit writing to check spelling, punctuation, and grammar.
§ Revise what is written by adding and/or deleting information to make it clear and understandable.
§ Use a variety of sentences when writing (for example: dialogue, question, exclamation, and statement).
§ Write personal and make-believe stories, each with a beginning, a middle, and ending.
§ Know and understand that main idea, supporting detail, organization, and coherence are the criteria upon which the stories are scored.
§ Write fairy tales, poetry, recipes, news articles, interviews, letters, notes, lists, and instructions.
§ Write for pleasure, to respond to text, and to record learning.
Spelling
§ Demonstrate an understanding of the relationship between letters and sounds.
§ Use knowledge of structural analysis to decode words.
§ Spell words correctly.
§ Use spelling strategies to achieve accuracy (e.g., prediction, visualization, and association).
CHRISTIAN EDUCATION:
St. Paul Evangelical Lutheran School exists to bring children to know Jesus Christ through (1) His Creation, (2) His Son, Jesus Christ and (3) His Holy Word, through the Bible. Biblical stories are taught that stress that Jesus wants us to be a sharing, loving, caring and forgiving community of Christians.
Our Christian Education classes are based on the teachings and practices from the Holy Bible. We believe in God, the Son, and the Holy Spirit. The purpose of Christian education is to help direct the process of human development towards God’s objective for man; 2 Timothy 3:17 King James Version (KJV) 17 “That the man of God may be perfect, thoroughly furnished unto all good works.”