4th Grade Classroms

Fourth Grade Teachers

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Multi-Classroom Leader, Grade 4: Ms. Rachel Patterson

What will I learn?

Reading & Language Arts
- We will make inferences and determine themes in fiction.
- We will determine point-of-view and find evidence for character traits.
- We will use context clues to find the meaning of unknown words and classify texts by their structure.
- We will write narrative, opinion, and expository pieces.

Mathematics
- We will work with place valueup to 100,000.
- We will multiply two 2 digit numbers and divide them with 1 digit divisors and multi-digit dividends using partial products.
- We will do extensive work with fractions and decimals- as well as area and perimeter and geometry.

Science/Social Studies
- We'll explore the relationship between Earth and moon, rocks and minerals, and animal adaptions as well as force and motion including magnetism and electricity.
-For social studies, we'll focus on North Carolina geography, history, and state symbols as well as state government

Here are some other things you can encourage them to do:
-Fluently add, subtract, and multiply
-Practice solving multi-step word problems

-Read both fiction and non-fiction stories
-Ask questions:
         -What's the main idea?
         -How does the character change throughout the story?
         -What lesson (theme) does the character learn?

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