Dallas Elementary

Fourth Grade is filled with interested topics and learning tasks!

READING 

At Dallas Elementary we fully implement a robust reading and writing curriculums called BOOKWORMS. This research-based curriculum emphasizes building readers with strong phonemic awareness, fluency, comprehension skills and wriitng.  It embedds the SCIENCE of reading as the foundation of all learning activities. Your scholar will also receive a very customized small group instruction during what we call NBI ( needs- based instruction). This special 45 minute block is not created by accident. On an ongoing basis, we use both the Dibels (reading fluency) and Reading Inventory (comprehension and vocabulary) to make informed decisions about what your scholar needs.  We will read some really rich titles, explore both fiction and nonfiction texts and write for many purposes. 

As assessments are administered throughout the year you will receive your child's reading Lexile score.

KNOW YOUR CHILD'S NUMBERS!   Please get to know and track your child's LEXILE score. This score will give you a good idea of your 4th grader's college and career readiness. 

Here are the Georgia Standards of Excellence for ELA and how you can help at home:

How Can I Help?

Standards to be Mastered by the END of 4th Grade

Math 

Like Bookworms, Do The Math  is a a researched- based math curriculum created by Marilyn Burns. It helps students develop the skills they need to compute with accuracy and efficiency, the number sense they need to reason, and the ability to apply their skills and reasoning to solve problems. Students develop a love of math while building numerical reasoning, fluency, and problem-solving skills. Each module includes 30 thirty-minute lessons and print assessments. A math inventories are administered on an ongoing basis to ensure that I meet your 4th grader where they are in order to procive needs- based instruction in mathematics,  as well. Please, no worries about the "new math" I am here to make it at painless as possible. 

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Standards and Learning Map.

(These may not be taught in the same order. I will keep you well informed of where we are) 

-If you are wondering what can you do now at home...please begin helping your scholar learn their multiplication facts. 

SCIENCE 

Our first unit of study...Weather and Moon Phases! 

I plan to make science just as important as reading and mathematics. Through hands-on/minds-on, student-centered, inquiry-based lessons, integrated with technology; we will explore many scientific units of study. 

As junior scientist we will make observations, interpret and record data, make sketches, question, wonder, construct and investigate and more. 

Fourth grade scholars will compare and contrast the physical attributes of stars and planets, model the effects of the relative motion of the Earth and moon around the sun, use weather charts/maps to predict weather events, conduct investigations about the water cycle and understand their relationship with heat energy, communicate information about the nature of light and sound, study the effects of balanced and unbalanced forces on an object, and describe the flow of energy in an ecosystem and the roles organisms play in a community.

Check out the science standards here:

Georgia Science Standards of Excellence

SOCIAL STUDIES

In fourth grade, students study United States History integrating history, geography, civics/government, and economics. Fourth grade begins YEAR 2 of a three year study.  We will begin the year learning about the French and Indian War and end with Reconstruction. Our study of geography will place emphasis on the influence of geography on U.S. history during the time periods that we explore.

In the civics/government strand, students learn about concepts and rights contained within our founding documents, the Declaration of Independence, the Constitution of the US and the Bill of Rights. 

Here is the link to access the Social Studies Standards:

Georgia Social Studies Standards of Excellence-See pages 21-26