October 2019

Dear 4th grade families,

Welcome to our first monthly update! We are so excited to get to know your students and your families. Thank you for all you do to support us in 4th grade!

 

Language Arts: In Language Arts, we continue getting students acclimated to the 4^th grade setting by reviewing concepts and procedures that should be familiar from earlier years. The following concepts are covered in September and October:

 · Unit 1: Building a Community of Readers/Writers

·  Unit 2: Evaluating Characters in fiction texts and writing Personal Essays

·  Unit 3: Poetry

 The AAP class follows the same curriculum outline and pacing. Mr. Batsel’s class has also completed the first two lessons in Caesar’s English. We will continue with Caesar’s English each full week of school (we will not do CE on short weeks with less than 5 school days). We alternate between “stem” weeks and “classic word” weeks.

 

Math:

Ms. Benson, Mr. Painter, and Mrs. Small’s Classes: We will be ending our Place Value, Addition and Subtraction unit, and beginning our Fractions Part 1 Unit including the following concepts:

· Compare and order no more than four fractions and mixed numbers, with and without models (with denominators of 12 or less)

· Represent equivalent fractions through twelfths, with and without models

· Identify the division statement that represents a fraction, with models and in context

· Determine common multiples and factors, including least common multiple and greatest common factor

· Determine a common denominator for fractions, using common multiples, denominators not exceeding 60

 

Mr. Batsel’s Class: We began with a review of  “Characteristics of  Numbers” (prime, composite, whole, integer, factors, multiples). Going forward in October, we will look at decimal place value and concepts involving fractions:

· Compare and order fractions and mixed numbers         

· Represent equivalent fractions

· Identify the division statement that represents a fraction