Fourth Grade

Mrs. Christine Carlson
CLCarlson@leepublicschools.net
(413) 243-0336 ext. 1214

Mrs. Ruth LeCompte
RDLecompte@leepublicschools.net
(413) 243-0336 ext. 1215
Homework

Mrs. Leslie Hickey
LMHickey@leepublicschools.net
(413) 243-0336 EXT. 1213

Reading

• Read at least 20 minutes per night, including holidays and vacations. Record the title, author, and amount of time in the monthly reading log. The log will be collected on the first day of the next month. Be sure to take the AR test after you complete the book.
• Students will receive a "think mark" book mark each week with an open ended question to focus on during their reading the way "good readers" do. Students will be required to make three entries during the week related to the open ended question. The "think mark" mark will be used to guide the weekly response in the students' reading response journals (RRJ) on Friday during English class.
• ELA intervention: Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday for a 30 minute block. Groups: phonics, fluency, comprehension, and vocabulary.

Mathematics

• Students have a weekly Mad Minute Multiplication Fact timed test weekly. Students keep an in class log to track their weekly improvement and set weekly goals. At the beginning of the school year students are given 15 minutes to complete 120 facts from 1 x 0 through 12 x 12. As the year progresses the time is shortened to 5 minutes by June. It is expected students will have mastered all the facts by the time they leave grade 4.
• Parents can sporadically quiz students during household chores, riding in the car, etc. It only takes a minute with no preparation.
• 2-1/2 hour intervention on Thursday and Friday focusing on current content. 1-45 minute session during chorusof intervention and extension.

Writing/Composition

• Grade 4 focuses on writing a personal narrative.
• Students begin with types of sentences, sentence structure, topic and conclusion sentences, supporting details, voice, and mechanics of writing.
• Weekly writing with a focus to a specific skill.

Handwriting

• Grade 4 focuses on the upper case cursive letters.
• All students will be expected to know how to form and read all cursive letters by the end of grade 4.
• Students will be able to draft many documents in cursive by the end of grade 4.

Spelling

• A word list and packet is sent home each Mondayto be completed and returned by Friday. Each week there is a spcific focus on a phonemic sound. Friday there will be a spelling test in class.

Science

September/October/November

I. Rock Cycle 
a. Types  of rocks
b. Rock cycle 
c. Weathering and Erosion

December/January/February

II. Changes to Earth's surface 
a. Landforms 
b. What causes changes 
c. Fossils

March/April

III. Water cycle 
a. Water cycle 
b. Relation to weather 
c. Predict weather

May/June

IV. Planets and other objects 
a. Earth and moon 
b. Solar system 
c. Other objects

Social Studies

First-Second marking period

• Mapglobe skills with a focus on longitude and latitude
• Location themes

Second-third period

• Landforms of the United States
• How landforms affect style of living/ecconomics

Fourth period

• Regions of the United States
• Research project on states integrated with ELA
• Float parade and exhibit of research paper in June