Welcome to Fourth Grade!

Three Report CardsNovember 18th March 1st May 31st

Sign up for conferences online for the week of Thanksgiving – November 21st and 22nd

Letter requesting information

ILLINOIS

Map skills

State project REGIONS of the UNITED STATES

States and capitals

Salt Dough Map

Hands-on Map

Students contact a state requesting information for reports.

At home, students complete a state project to display information they have learned about their state. Students will

then present their project to their classmates. Float

Song

Presentation board

Brochure

Game

Technology/video presentation

Abraham Lincoln Report Famous Person Report

Lincoln Report

Research Completed in Classroom

Lincoln Totem Pole

Lincoln’s Springfield

Home

Illinois Famous Person Reports Use the Same Format as the Lincoln

Report

Mr. Lincoln Comes to Tell Us Tales of His Early and Adult Life

Each Student Selects a Famous Person to

Research

The project is done in first person and orally presented

Students become the person they researched by dressing in costume

$ Checkbook

$ Partnerships

$ Advertising

$ Money Market

$ Teachers’ Store

Students write checks and balance checkbooks with real-world situations.

Students form companies and manufacture a product to sell at the Money Market.

Posters containing company names, logos and a picture of the product are created

by students.

The students buy and sell their products at the Money Market.

Students spend company profits at the Teachers’ Store.

Project Due DateState Project November 1st

Final Famous Person Project

More information coming in November

Money Market More information coming in March

Apply for a Loan

Survey

Develop Math Skills

Make Decisions

Create Advertisements

Collect and Fill Orders

Machines & Motion Rocks & Minerals

Mystery Powders

Food Chains and Webs

Body Systems Safety

Scientific Method

Students study digestive, circulatory, skeletal, nervous and respiratory systems.

Students do hands-on exploration with six simple machines.

Students investigate the properties of rocks. They also observe and study

calcite and granite.

Unknown powders are tested, fingerprinting is explored and secret

pen pals are matched...

while solving the mystery in a selected novel.

Students study food chains with a focus on owls and anoles.

Students work in teams during reading incentive contests.

Individual assignment books are completed on a daily

basis.

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