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4th Grade - Second 9 Week Resources
Language Arts Skills:

4.3b Explain words with multiple meanings.
4.4a Explain the author’s purpose. (fiction)
4.4b Describe how the choice of language, setting, and information contributes to the author’s purpose.
4.5c Explain the author’s purpose (nonfiction
4.5e Draw conclusions, using information from texts
4.5f Summarize content of selection, identifying important ideas and providing details for each important idea.
4.6a Construct questions about a topic.
4.7g Use available technology
4.8a Use subject-verb agreement.

Math skills:

4.1a Identify the place value for each digit through millions.
4.1b Compare two whole numbers expressed through millions (<,>, =).
4.5 Estimate whole numbers sums and differences.  Describe the method of estimation.  Use language such a closer to, between, a little more than.
4.6 Add and subtract whole numbers written in vertical and horizontal forms.
4.7 Find the product of two whole numbers when one factor has up to two digits, and the other factor has up to three digits.
4.8 Division

 

Social Studies :
Colonization to American Revolution
VS.4    The student will demonstrate knowledge of life in the Virginia colony by
explaining the importance of agriculture and its influence on the institution of slavery;
     1. describing how European (English, Scotch-Irish, German) immigrants, Africans, and American Indians (First Americans)      influenced the cultural landscape and changed the relationship between the Virginia colony and      England;
     2. explaining how geography influenced the relocation of Virginia’s capital from Jamestown to Williamsburg to Richmond;
     3. describing how money, barter, and credit were used.
VS.5    The student will demonstrate knowledge of the role of Virginia in the American Revolution by
     1. identifying the reasons why the colonies went to war with England as expressed in the Declaration of      Independence;
     2. identifying the various roles played by Virginians in the Revolutionary War era, with emphasis on George Washington,      Thomas Jefferson, and Patrick Henry;
     3. identifying the importance of the American victory at Yorktown.
Political Growth and Western Expansion: 1781 to the Mid 1800s
VS.6    The student will demonstrate knowledge of the role of Virginia in the establishment of the new American nation by
     1. explaining why George Washington is called the “Father of our Country” and James Madison is called the      “Father of the Constitution”;
     2. identifying the ideas of George Mason and Thomas Jefferson as expressed in the Virginia Declaration of      Rights and the Virginia Statute for Religious Freedom;
     3. explaining the influence of geography on the migration of Virginians into western territories.
Declaring Independence - 2 min. movie clip
Schoolhouse Rock No More Kings Video
Lyrics

Science:
Force, Energy, Motion
4.2     The student will investigate and understand characteristics and interaction of moving objects. Key concepts include

  • motion is described by an object’s direction and speed;
  • forces cause changes in motion;
  • friction is a force that opposes motion; and
  • moving objects have kinetic energy
Division Web Site
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