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4th Grade Supply List

  • eraser 
  • #2 pencils (2 in desk at all times) 
  • wide ruled, 3-holed, loose leaf notebook paper 
  • 8 pocket folders with center paper fasteners (various colors)
    PLEASE DO NOT LABEL AT HOME! 
  • 1 standard box of unopened tissues or paper towels 
  • 1 sturdy zippered pencil bag 
  • 2 blue ink ball point pen 
  • 1 yellow highlighter 
  • 24 count crayons 
  • glue stick 
  • paperback thesaurus 
  • composition notebook 
  • 2 spiral notebooks (Mrs. de Vignier's class only) 
  • OPTIONAL: one ream of paper 
  • no large notebooks please, including Trapper Keepers


4th Grade Field Trips

St.Augustine 
Date to be announced
Please make sure to have a ride home at 4:00 p.m. 

Canaveral National Seashore 
Date to be announced
Bring extra shoes and socks and a sack lunch. 

Jimmy Sawgrass 
Date to be announced
We will be eating regular school lunch. 


Fourth Grade Curriculum

Reading & Language Arts

Sunshine State Standards for 4th Grade

Students will:

  • Make, confirm, and revise predictions based on illustrations, title, author and genre in fourth grade or higher text.
  • Establish a purpose for reading.
  • Read and organize information by main idea/details or by sequence of events to summarize ideas.
  • Gather specific information from a single source to complete a task.
  • Use a variety of decoding strategies to clarify pronunciation of multi-syllable words.
  • Use a variety of strategies to prewrite including graphic organizers.
  • Group related ideas into paragraphs.
  • Use meaningful transitions.
  • Edit conventions of punctuation, capitalization, and spelling.
  • Use manuscript and cursive according to situation or task.
  • Write for a variety of occasions and audiences.
  • Interact verbally with peers in a variety of situations.
  • Use correct grammar in speech and writing.
  • Distinguish features of literary and informational text.
  • Compare the similarities or differences of settings, characters, or events across text.
  • Read a variety of literary and informative texts.
  • Make, confirm, and revise predictions based on text features such as headings, bold type, or italics.
  • Identify and discuss author’s purpose in literary, information, and functional text.
  • Read and organize information to explain cause/effect relationships, compare/contrast ideas, or fact/opinion.
  • Gather and organize information from multiple sources.
  • Use context clues such as known words and phrases to infer meaning of new words or multiple-meaning words.
  • Keep audience and purpose in mind throughout writing.
  • Develop story line or organizational pattern that is easily followed.
  • Develop supporting ideas.
  • Evaluate own writing and that of others using a rubric.
  • Use varied sentence structure.
  • Write to respond to literal and inferential questions.
  • Speak clearly in front of a group or in small groups.
  • Recognize simile, metaphor, analogy, and alliteration.
  • Identify major theme or essential message in a story.
  • Understand how conflicts are resolved in a story.
  • Select books for independent reading.
  • Apply knowledge of a variety of text organizational patterns to predict content of text.
  • Recognize when text is meant primarily to persuade.
  • Apply knowledge of text organizational patterns to respond to literal and inferential questions orally or in writing.
  • Use a systematic research method to prepare a report or presentation.
  • Use a variety of word structures and forms to construct meaning such as affixes, synonyms, roots and analogies.
  • Exhibit consistent awareness of topic.
  • Achieve sense of completeness or wholeness in writing.
  • Develop anecdotes and examples to extend and elaborate ideas.
  • Revise and edit writing based on knowledge of the writing rubric.
  • Use descriptive and precise language
  • Write to explain information related to content area texts.
  • Participate effectively in discussions.
  • Recognize choices shape reactions, perceptions and beliefs.
  • Understand how the story events contribute to the plot or solution.
  • Explain how the causes of events compare with his/her own life.
  • Vary choice of genres read, including poetry, fiction and nonfiction selections.
  • Apply appropriate strategies to preview and predict content from a variety of text formats.
  • Vary reading rate according to the reading task such as reading for pleasure or for information, skimming or scanning.
  • Read a variety of text materials and create literal and inferential questions to demonstrate comprehension of the text.
  • Prepare and present information for a specific audience or purpose.
  • Extend content vocabulary through independent reading and knowledge of Greek and Latin roots related to common math, science and social studies terms.
  • Avoid irrelevant or repetitious information.
  • Logically organize ideas within paragraphs.
  • Elaborate and extend ideas with specific details, personal experiences, and factual information.
  • Revise and edit a variety of writing formats and products.
  • Present facts and examples objectively.
  • Write letters to request information for a project or report.
  • Present an oral report or speech in an organized manner.
  • Interpret message conveyed through mass media.
  • Understand relationship between the development of plot and changes in other story elements.
  • Explain how the motives of the characters compare with his/her own life.
  • Develop preferences for authors, genres, or styles.
  • Continue to practice those skills previously taught. 


Math Curriculum

"The Big Ideas"

  • Data Analysis 
  • Place Value 
  • Geometry I 
  • Addition / Subtraction with whole numbers 
  • Multiply / Divide with whole numbers 
  • Geometry II 
  • Fractions 
  • Probability 
  • Measurement 
  • Algebraic Thinking 

Textbook: Scott Foresman - Addison Wesley, Grade 4 

Visit the Knowzone to practice math skills


Science Curriculum

We enjoy learning about:

  • The Nature of Science 
  • A World of Living Things
  • Patterns on Earth and in Space
  • Matter & Energy
  • Forces & Motion
          
  • Ecosystems


Social Studies Curriculum

Textbook: Harcourt Brace, Florida Edition

Florida History including:

  • Map Skills 
  • The Land and Early People 
  • Newcomers to Florida: Explorers and Colonial Florida 
  • Florida Joins the United States 
  • Progress as a State 
  • Modern Florida