Current Students - Fourth Grade

What We're Working On:
(As reported in the latest Baraga Buzz.)

What’s Cookin’ in Fourth Grade

The fourth graders have been as busy as Santa’s elves! Math class has been spent multiplying two, three and four digits. Natural resources and forces such as erosion is the hot topic in science.

Speaking of hot, the 4th grade heated things up in the kitchen baking To-Die-For Blueberry
Muffins, Cranberry Applesauce muffins and Boston Brown Bread to go along with their study
of the New England States. Hmm�.I wonder what they will be serving up for the Mid-Atlantic
states!

Mrs. Redmond has been working hard training fourth grade altar servers.They will begin serving at school masses December 15th. Good luck. We know you will do a great job!!

Class Curriculum:
Religion - Unit 1: Growing in Jesus Christ Faith, Beatitudes, Liturgical Seasons, Ordinary Time, Penance and Reconciliation, Mass Readings
Unit 2: The Commandments Help Us to Love God - First, Second and Third Commandments, Advent and Christmas
Unit 3: The Commandments Help Us to Love Others - Fourth, Fifth, Sixth, Seventh, Eighth Commandments, Lent and the Triduum
Unit 4: We Are Called to Holiness - The Ninth and Tenth Commandments, Easter, Altar serving and Venture Magazines

Reading -
Skills: Sequence, Author's Purpose, Main Idea, Cause and Effect, Fact and Opinion, Draw Conclusions, Compare and Contrast, Generalize, Setting, Graphic Sources
Strategies: Word Structure, Summarize, Answer Questions, Graphic Organizers, Story Structure, Context Clues, Prior Knowledge, Dictionary/Glossary, Visualize
Fluency: Modeling and practicing fluent reading
Writing: Writing incorporating the Six Traits of Writing

Cursive Writing - Review cursive letters and practice legible handwriting. Improving the five factors: shape, size, smoothness, spacing and slant

Grammar - Sentences, Nouns, Verbs, Adjectives, Capitalization and Punctuation, Pronouns, Adverbs

Michigan History - Geography and regions, Early people, Statehood, Civil War, Growth, Depression, World War and Recovery, Michigan Today: Government, Living and working in Michigan, Enjoying Michigan

Spelling - Weekly Tests, word and sound practice, dictionary skills, Spelling Bee

Science - Matter, Force and Motion; Electricity and Magnetism; Light and Sound; Measuring Weather; The Makeup of the Earth; Exploring the Oceans; Movements in the Solar System; The Digestive, Circulatory and Nervous Systems; Keeping Your Body Systems Healthy;
Michigan Model

Math - Review addition and subtraction, place value, time, money, measurement
Emphasis on multiplication and division, fractions and decimals, geometry, word problems, charts and graphs, probability and statistics