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English Language Arts

Standards

• (Revised 2020)

Resources

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Fourth Grade Units

Parent Resources for ELA

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• Act 20 Resources & Family Activities

Math

Standards

• (revised 2020)

Resources

Fourth Grade Units

Parent Resources

• – collection of activities, organized by mathematical content, uses familiar routines that can be used by students and families.
• – free apps that are based on the visual models student use in Bridges in Mathematics

Social Studies

Standards

Fourth Grade Units

Science

Standards

Fourth Grade Units

Social Emotional Learning

Social-Emotional Learning (SEL) helps children develop the skills they need to succeed in school and in life. These include:

• Understanding and managing emotions
• Making responsible decisions
• Showing empathy and kindness
• Building positive friendships
• Solving problems in peaceful ways

SEL supports the whole child—academically, socially, and emotionally—helping students feel safe, confident, and ready to learn.

Elementary school is a time when children are learning how to navigate the world around them. As they grow, they begin to understand themselves, others, and how to work together. SEL helps students:

• Develop self-confidence and independence
• Learn how to handle big emotions
• Build friendships and resolve conflicts
• Follow directions and stay focused in class
• Create a strong sense of belonging at school

When students feel supported socially and emotionally, they are more engaged in learning and better prepared for future academic success.

91ÖÆƬ³§ uses the Second Step Elementary program, a trusted, research-based curriculum that teaches SEL skills in a developmentally appropriate and engaging way.Ìý Second Step lessons are taught in the elementary classroom and focus on:

• Skills for Learning – Listening, focusing attention, and being assertive
• Empathy – Understanding and caring about others’ feelings
• Emotion Management – Recognizing strong emotions and calming down
• Problem-Solving – Using step-by-step strategies to make good choices

Lessons include stories, songs, discussions, games, and role-playing to help students practice their skills in fun and meaningful ways.

Physical Education

All K-5 students in the 91ÖÆƬ³§ participate in physical education for 75 minutes per week.

Music

All K-5 students in the 91ÖÆƬ³§ participate in general music for 45 minutes per week.

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Fourth Grade Learning Objectives for Music

Students will demonstrate and understand the following concepts:

• Rhythm
  • Sixteenth Notes
  • Whole Note
  • Triplets
• PitchÌý
  • Read and notate notes on the lines and spaces of the treble clef staff

Students will experience and interact with the following:

• Tonality
  • Major vs. minor
  • Pentatonic scale
  • Blues scale
• Harmony
  • Major and minor chords

Demonstrated Vocal Skills

• Sing accurately in head voice, with or without accompaniment
• Perform a variety of songs including rounds, partner songs, and two-part songs, and speech pieces

Demonstrated Instrumental Skills

• Perform pulse, rhythm, and melodies on classroom percussion instruments
• Improvise an original rhythm/melody/tune
• Proper Recorder performance technique
• Proper playing technique on classroom instruments

Demonstrated Performance Skills

• Follow the cues of a conductor with regard to nuance
• Perform various dynamics and tempi
• Perform with an ensemble

Demonstrated Interaction with Music

• Form
  • Explore theme and variations
  • Identify musical phrases
• Timbre
  • Identify the timbre of the string, percussion, woodwind and brass families
  • Identify the timbre of the soprano, alto, tenor, and bass voices
• Dynamics (Loud and soft)
  • Pianissimo and fortissimo
• Slow and fast tempos
  • Adagio and vivace
  • Molto and poco
• Identify the expressive intent of music
• Identify characteristics of various styles/genres of music
• Creatively move to music with or without form

Art

All K-5 students in the 91ÖÆƬ³§ participate in art for 45 minutes per week.Ìý

Fourth Grade Learning Objectives for Visual Art

Elements and Principles of Art

• Color
  
  • Understands and uses monochromatic colors.
• Space
  • Understands and demonstrates ways to create the illusion of space: overlapping shapes, size variation, placement of objects on the page, light and shadow, intensity and color (less brightness and color further away), focus (Less detail further away).
• Value
  • Uses value to create the illusion of 3D forms by including highlight, shadow, and midtones.
  • Incorporates tint, tone, and shades into artwork.
• Balance
  • Compares and contrasts different forms of symmetry including: symmetric, asymmetric, radial symmetry.

Artistic Process

• Collaboratively works through the artist process to create artwork.Ìý

Craftsmanship

• Discusses personal artwork with their peers and decides on revisions based on the feedback.Ìý

Responding

• Applies one set of criteria to evaluate more than one work of art.
• Analyzes message and mood communicated by an image.
  

Connecting

• Creates works of art that reflect community cultural traditions.ÌýÌý
• Compares and contrasts purposes of art museums, art galleries and other venues.

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