GREETINGS!!!
HAPPY SPRING!!!!
CONGRATULATIONS to all our AR students who reached their goal!!
Special thanks to all the parents who generoulsy donated items to make this NINE WEEK PIZZA PARLOR A SUCCESS!!
I can't believe it is almost spring break...only two more weeks!!!
Well....until then we need to WORK HARD AND BUCKLE DOWN!!!
CRCT IS JUST AROUND THE CORNER! PLEASE CHECK YOUR SON/DAUGTHER'S AGENDA IN THE NEXT COMING WEEKS FOR CONCEPTS THAT NEED TO BE REVIEWED AT HOME.
UPCOMING EVENTS:
FIELD TRIP TO KENNESAW MOUNTAIN HIGH SCHOOL DRAMA PERFORMANCE
SPRING BREAK APRIL 6 - 10
SPRING FLING APRIL 18
This fourth nine weeks we will be focusing on the following concepts and topics:
Language Arts: Persuasive Writing and an Author Study
EQ: How do I read and understand the work of a particular author?
EQ: How do I write a persuasive essay?
Math: data, multiplying and dividing decimals, 3-D geometry, algebra and coordinate systems
EQ: How do I compute with decimals?
EQ: How can I gather and display mathematical information?
EQ: How can I identify and classify solid figures?
EQ: How do I locate points on a grid?
Social Studies: Westward Expansion and The Civil War
EQ: How were the western territories explored and aquired?
EQ: What were the causes and effects of the Civil War?
EQ: How was the U.S changed as a result of the war?
Science: Ecosystems and Adaptations
EQ: What are ecosystems?
Extinction to Ecosystems
Life Science
S4L1. Students will describe the roles of organisms and the flow of energy within an ecosystem.
a. Identify the roles of producers, consumers, and decomposers in a community.
b. Demonstrate the flow of energy through a food web/food chain beginning with sunlight and including producers, consumers, and decomposers.
c. Predict how changes in the environment would affect a community (ecosystem) of organisms.
d. Predict effects on a population if some of the plants or animals in the community are scarce or if there are too many.
S4L2. Students will identify factors that affect the survival or extinction of organisms such as adaptation, variation of behaviors (hibernation), and external features (camouflage and protection).
a. Identify external features of organisms that allow them to survive or reproduce better than organisms that do not have these features (for example: camouflage, use of hibernation, protection, etc.).
b. Identify factors that may have led to the extinction of some organisms.
Food Webs and the Energy Flow Food webs and food chains show the flow of energy through an ecosystem.
Nature's Web - Check out the connections between animals that live thousands of miles apart.
Ball of Wool Game : This activity demonstrates the complexity of food webs and how living things in a habitat are interrelated.
Interdependence and Adaptation - interactive activity
E-Trip: Biscayne National Park - an underwater ecosystem adventure
Unique Animal Adaptions:
Shoreline Animals
Temperate Ocean Animals
Tropical Ocean Animals
Plant Adaptions in Different Ecosystems
Plants and Life on Earth
E-Trip: Glacier Bay - A Living Laboratory for Studying Marine Mammals
Threat of Extinctions:
Georgia's Threatened and Extinct Plants and Animals
Wildlife at Risk from the National Federation of Wildlife
Endangered and Threatened Species
The following tests are due this TUESDAY, March 24
4th SCIENCE 2
4th MATH 3
4th SOCIAL STUDIES 2
TESTS THAT ARE DUE ON TUESDAY, MARCH 31 ARE THE FOLLOWING:
4TH SCIENCE 3
4TH MATH 2
4TH LANGUAGE ARTS 3
Please start using these words at home with your child.
Trace - outline, sequence, step-by-step, time line
Analyze - break down, separate, small pieces
Infer - read between the lines, find clues
Evaluate - judge, decide, rate
Formulate - solve, create, plan, decide, build
Describe - tell about, include the 5W's and H (who, what, when, where, why, how)
Support - defend, tell why, prove it, give reasons
Explain - tell about, give reasons, how does it work
Summarize - tell about, retell, main idea
Compare - same
Contrast - different
Predict - future, what will happen, forecast
TASK OF THE WEEK: WHAT ARE THE THREE TYPES OF CONSUMERS? GIVE A DEFINITION AND SPECIFIC EXAMPLE FOR EACH. ( 2 STICKS )...USE COMMENT SECTION TO ANSWER THIS TASK!!!
Download Gr4plenglishq4[1] - Here the concepts we will be studying in MATH this last nine weeks.
