Fourth Grade Goals

    Fourth grade is a year of growing independence.  It is where students become more responsible for their academic growth and learning.  In addition to academics, students become more involved in their school community through extra curricular activities.

 
English
Mathematics
Science
 History/ Social Studies
Use effective oral communication skills in a variety of settings Read, write and identify place value; and compare/round numbers through millions Investigate and understand: Demonstrate knowledge of:
Make and listen to oral presentations and reports Identify and represent equivalent fractions and relate fractions to decimals Energy is needed to do work; machines make work easier geography and early inhabitants of Virginia
Read and learn the meaning of unfamiliar words Compare numerical value of fractions having denominators of 12 or less Characteristics of electricity First permanent English settlement in America
Read fiction and nonfiction, including biographies and historical fiction Create and solve problems involving addition and subtraction of money Basic plant anatomy and life processes Life in the Virginia colony
Demonstrate comprehension of a variety of literary forms Add and subtract whole numbers in horizontal and vertical form How plants and animals in an ecosystem interact with one another and the non living environment Role of Virginia in the American Revolution
Read a variety of poetry Find products of two whole numbers How weather conditions and phenomena occur and can be predicted Role of Virginia in the establishment of the new American Nation
Write effective narratives and explanations Estimate and find quotients of two whole numbers Relationships among the Earth, moon, and sun Issues that divided our nation and led to the Civil War
Edit final copies of writings Add, subtract and solve problems with fractions with like and unlike denominators to 12 Important Virginia natural resources Government, geography and economics in Virginia from 1900 to the present
Use information resources to research a topic Estimate, measure and compare measurements of weight/mass, length and liquid volume. Estimate conversions between US Customary and Metric units Skills for historical and geographical analysis
Identify and describe situations using perimeter; measure perimeter using standard and nonstandard units
Investigate and describe relationships between and among points, lines, line segments, and rays
Identify and draw points, lines, line segments, rays, and right angles using a straight edge or ruler
Identify parallel, intersecting and perpendicular lines
Determine probability
Collect, organize and display data in graphs
Identify and locate missing whole numbers on a number line
Use pattern identification and completion to solve problems
Extend patterns