Reading
Over the next weeks in Reading, our class will build our knowledge about healthful food, with a focus on the informational/argumentative text genre. We will discuss how this genre uses facts to persuade readers to agree with an opinion. We will read texts and view videos about what we can do to make more healthful food choices.
Writing
In writing, our class will continue to write responses with relevant details that demonstrate understanding of texts in short and long constructed responses including comparing and contrasting ideas across a variety of sources. In grammar, we will focus on editing and revising to review for STAAR Assessment. Also, after STAAR Assessment we will continue with Module 7- grammar: Abbreviations for people and places & Comparative forms of adjectives.
Math
This month in math, students will continue their learning about measurement conversions. The assessment for this unit will be on April 3rd. During the second week of April, we will begin our Rockin' Review to prepare for STAAR testing at the end of the month. This review program emphasizes the use of math games to promote student discourse in the classroom. By participating in discussions using key vocabulary, students will review important 4th grade math concepts to prepare for the STAAR test at the end of the month.
Science
In science, we will begin April by reviewing for the Alief Interim Assessment #2 on April 2nd. Then, we will practice skills and knowledge not mastered during the assessment. The second week of April, we will continue our curriculum and complete Chapter 9 regarding the difference between inherited and acquired physical traits of organisms. We will then complete the first two lessons of Chapter 10. Students will investigate and explain how most producers can make their own food using sunlight, water, and carbon dioxide through the cycling of matter in the first lesson of Chapter 10. In the second lesson of Chapter 10, they will describe the cycling of matter and flow of energy through food webs, including the roles of the Sun, producers, consumers, and decomposers.
Social Studies
In Social Studies we will be reading about The Great Depression and World War II. We will learn how The Great Depression impacted the people of Texas and the United States involvement in World War II. We will continue learning about Texas Today, particularly The Economy of Texas. We will learn a lot in Social Studies in the month of April!