Fourth Grade

Ms. Kali Chappell

Ms. Abby Holtzclaw


A Typical Fourth Grader

• is exuberant.
• is interested in friends more than family.
• wants independence and respect.
• worries and complains.
• is influenced by opinions of friends.
• has difficulty handling stressful situations.

Novel Studies

• Lion to Guard Us by Bulla
• The Keeping Room by Myers
• Shh! We’re Writing the Constitution by Fritz
• Weasel by DeFelice
• Trouble River by Byars
• Grasshopper Summer by Turner
• The Big Wave by Buck
• Turn Homeward Hannalee by Beatty
• One Day in a Tropical Rainforest by Craighead-George

How can you help?

• Encourage your child’s unlimited creativity.
• Review multiplication facts 0-12.
• Reinforce working and thinking independently.
• Provide adequate planning time for long-term projects.
• Encourage the practice of making good choices.
• Admire budding responsibility.
• Set up a monitoring system that is comfortable for parent and child to communicate about daily assignments.
• Be a part of your child’s education.  Visit the school as often as possible.

Units of Study

Mathematics

• Multiplication facts 0-12
• Adding/Subtraction with regrouping
• Three by two digits multiplication
• Two by four digits division
• Fractions
• Word Problems
• Elapsed time
• Metric and standard measurements
• Geometry      

Language Arts

• Basal Reader
• Skills lessons
• Guided Reading
• Reading Centers
• Daily Oral Language
• Parts of Speech
• Novel Studies  

Writing Focus

• Personal narrative
• Imaginative story
• Responding to Literature
• Persuasive writing
• Research paper

Social Studies

• Explorers
• Colonization
• American Revolution
• The Forming of a New Nation       

Science

• Self-awareness
• Nutrition
• Digestion
• Weather
• Light/Color
• Sound
• Space
• Simple machines
• Ecosystem