4th Grade Home

updated for November 23, 2020

Math:

We spend the first half of this week reviewing all content covered so far, chapters 1 and 2. We spend the second half of the week relaxing. Math in Focus workbook pages 41-48 might take some time. For this reason I’ll encourage fourth graders to work each morning, Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday, but then stop wherever they are and turn in all pages 41-48 regardless of where they are in the process. If they complete 20 problems each day they will finish the review. This is a realistic expectation for some, but not for all. Know that I will encourage your child to work diligently but also feel okay with stopping, even if the work is not complete.

Science:

Last week fourth graders asked, “What is the effect on the force of attraction between two magnets as the distance between them changes?” We measured force in washers. How many washers placed in the balance broke the magnet attraction? We measured distance between magnets with small yellow spacer chips. We asked questions such as “Where should you place the washers in the cup (random or carefully stacked?). Does it make a difference whether you place the washers in the cup gently or drop them in with force?” First, we recorded our data in a T chart. Then we created a graph. Along the way we also used our data to make predictions and tested those predictions. Yes, all this in two zooms.

From FOSS Home School Connections: Find out how magnets are used around the home. Some ways might be to hold kitchen cabinets closed, to keep a refrigerator door shut, or to stick things to the refrigerator door. Talk with your family about the magnets. Can you think of another way to use magnets around the house? Can you invent a magnet game? Talk over some ideas with your family and try out some games, if you can.

Collect any magnets you have at home and compare the strength of each. What items are attracted to the magnets? Can you attract more than one item to the magnet? Compare two magnets and what is attracted to them. Are there any differences? Why do you think? Make a drawing and label the system you used to test the magnet strength.

Social Studies, A Rare Find:

Fourth graders know geography is the study of location, places, culture and how they interact. These elements interact so beautifully in the story of Washington State’s most ancient skeletal remains. Location: North America, United States, once the tribal land of the Umatilla and Colville. Place: the banks of the Columbia River near Kennewick, Washington. Culture: sacred burial practice, scientific investigation, federal law. Fourth graders will be fascinated with the Kennewick Man. The story has everything: a skeleton found on a riverbank, controversy as science clashes with spiritual practice, a look at a life 9,000 years ago. We will read what our textbook has to offer. I’ll do my best to keep students informed with recent updates. There are several interesting video clips on Youtube taken from documentaries, but again, updates are needed and students need prompting to see multiple perspectives. I like these articles from the Burke Museum and npr. I LOVE fourth grade social studies!

https://www.burkemuseum.org/news/ancient-one-kennewick-man

https://www.npr.org/sections/codeswitch/2016/05/05/476631934/a-long-complicated-battle-over-9-000-year-old-bones-is-finally-over

Social Emotional Learning (SEL) Resources:

Check out the SEL page for 4th grade on our school website. Mrs. Dickerson posts corresponding Home Links there for the lessons we’re doing in Second Step. You can scroll down through the document to the lesson we’re learning for any particular week to get reinforcement ideas for home…also available in Spanish.

Dates to Remember:

Wednesday, 11-25: noon dismissal

11-26 and 11-27: No School. Happy Thanksgiving

I count you and your children among my blessings. I am so thankful for our Guadalupe community. Thank you for sending your children to OLG and allowing me to teach them. Happy Thanksgiving. We are blessed, indeed.

Knitting Resources:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1vm6oaYzHyA

How to cast on, knitting for total beginners

https://youtu.be/Egp4NRhlMDg

The knit stitch

https://youtu.be/xmve4Q5FWEw

Rhyme to help with the knit stitch

4th schedule, 2020-2021

Mrs. Wilson’s Youtube

Mrs. Sommerville walks you through Google Classroom

Mrs. Sommerville walks you through seeing teacher comments on Google Classroom

Remote Learning Math Resources from Mrs. Lawler

specialist-k-5/4th-grade-math-resources/

Helpful Websites

Reading

Kids A-Z

Login Instructions

Use Google Chrome as your browser. Safari does not fully support Kids A-Z

Step 1: Go to www.kidsa-z.com

Step 2: Enter or choose the teacher’s username, cwilson329

Step 3: Your child finds his or her username on the class chart

Step 4: Your child enters his or her password, GUAD4green

Science

https://www.fossweb.com

User Name: OLG4Science

Password: OLG4Science

Cursive Writing Resources

http://www.handwritingforkids.com/handwrite/cursive/animation/lowercase.htm

To see the animation, move your mouse over a letter. Lowercase

http://www.handwritingforkids.com/handwrite/cursive/animation/uppercase.htm

To see the animation, move your mouse over a letter. Uppercase

http://www.donnayoung.org/penmanship/cursive-animations.htm

Scroll down to the bottom of the page for cursive letter animation video clips for each letter.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1PBUYzWXEIQ

Continuous video clip, capital letters first, then lower case… not exactly how OLG teaches them, but clear and concise.

https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/cursiva-lite/id976052613?mt=8

One of several free apps… Try them and share your experience with the rest of us.

Social Studies

Video clips about timelines

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YFu-zMjGJJA

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ccwFRZFsDbk

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xc64qurhFng

Video clip explaining the challenge of showing the world on a flat map

Youtube clip guides you to create a map of Washington State. We call the “Puget Sound Lowlands” the “Western Lowlands”. Otherwise, this is perfect for helping us learn our state’s geography.

Video clip showing timeline and explaining BC/AD

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YFu-zMjGJJA

Typing Website

http://www.typing.com

Math

Xtra Math

MathWhizz

Usernames and passwords sent home week of September 1

Estimation and Number Sense Video Clips

Chapter 2, Math In Focus

Estimating sums using rounding.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qr-xHNNrZeA

Estimating differences using rounding.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-mqFzPCWXYY

Estimating products using rounding

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oHcv7_bf8XQ

Estimating quotients using compatible numbers

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cI290ZVrHbU

Front end estimation.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c4GSf5u80S4

Factors, Prime and Composite Numbers

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nSKfTReVa-g

Finding the Greatest Common Factor using Math In Focus method

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GD5jLpSsN00

Factors, Multiples and Prime Numbers easily explained.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tifyIMpyLYw

Multiples, Common Multiples, Least Common Multiples

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BxPZGv0mLiI

Finding the Least Common Multiple using the Math In Focus method

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gGLpBe46wIY

Using an array model to solve multiplication problems

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iDXH9tfVqAI

Using an array model to solve multiplication problems, shading ones and tens in a similar way to Math In Focus

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t40_Hkf5rj8

Using an area model to solve multiplication problems

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qdYV6i-kXcA

Math, Chapter 1

https://youtu.be/LTGg9LAdbpc

page 2, Recall prior knowledge

Recalling prior knowledge, Survey textbook pages 1-38, Word Form, Standard Form, Expanded Form, Concrete representation, Count by ones, tens, hundreds, thousands, Value of each digit

https://youtu.be/VZSMLG9FbLI

page 3, Recall prior knowledge

Comparing numbers using a place-value chart, Completing a pattern by finding the rule, Concrete ways to show numbers… I ran out of time! Stay tuned.

https://youtu.be/dyjAibK-rdc

Math in Focus, Dots on a Place Value Chart

This video introduces the concrete/visual representation of larger numbers used by Math in Focus at the fourth grade level. We use these dots on a place value chart all year long.

https://youtu.be/akJrwXoqFPQ

Math in Focus, pages 5-8

Practicing larger numbers, standard form, word form, expanded form… catch my mistake in this video (you have to watch to the end).

https://youtu.be/1tCF2K5owkU

Math in Focus, pages 10-11

Showing the value of each digit, Expanded form

https://youtu.be/jbTF077eWQk

Math in Focus, Workbook A, pages 3,4,5

“the digit _______ stands for ________.” “the value of the digit _______ is __________ .”

https://youtu.be/8P5gT-Vkr0Y

Math in Focus, pages 14, 15

Comparing and Ordering larger numbers