Fourth Grade 

Throughout our students’ Fourth Grade year, we aim to have successfully learn the following:
Language Arts:

• Create writing which utilizes: organization, transitions, and word choice
• Write Opinion, Informative, and Narrative pieces
• Correctly uses capitalization, punctuation, and spelling
• Grade level phonics

Reading:

• Uses text evidence to describe a character, setting, or event and explain why events, procedures, and concepts happen. 
• Determine the meaning of words and phrases, within a text.
• Summarize a variety of texts, and explain how it is supported by key details.
• Locate and refer to relevant details and evidence when explaining what a text says.
• Identify and analyze structural elements using terms such as  rhythm, characters, settings, and dialogue.

Math:

• Use place value understanding to round multi-digit whole numbers to any place.
• Fluently adds and subtracts multi-digit whole numbers using the standard algorithm.
• Multiply a whole number of up to four digits by a one-digit whole number, and multiply two two-digit numbers using any method. 
• Compare two fractions with different numerators and different denominators.
• Understand addition and subtraction of fractions as joining and separating parts referring to the same whole.
• Draw points, lines, line segments, rays, angles (right, acute, obtuse), and perpendicular and parallel lines. Identify these in two-dimensional figures.

Science:

• Develop a model to describe how light reflecting from objects and entering the eyes allows objects to be seen.
• Make observations and/or measurements to provide evidence of the effects of weathering or the rate of erosion by water, ice, wind, or vegetation.
• Identify evidence from patterns in rock formations and fossils in rock layers to support an explanation for changes in a landscape over time. 
• Apply scientific ideas to design, test, and refine a device that converts energy from one form to another 
• Develop a model of waves to describe patterns in terms of amplitude and wavelength and that waves can cause objects to move.

Social Studies:

• Construct maps, charts, and graphs using appropriate elements (i.e., date, orientation, grid, scale, title, author, index, legend, situation)
• Identify and construct regions in Wisconsin and the United States
• Identify and describe the intended purpose of a specific primary or secondary source
• Identifies  Native American groups in Wisconsin and key treaties
• Analyzes Wisconsin resources, good and services today and in the past