Fourth Grade Discovery Advanced
Fourth grade Discovery Advanced will meet two days a week for about 50 minutes. Students will be pulled out of class during a time that is least disruptive. Discovery on Wednesday is reading/writing, and Friday is math (first semester) / science (second semester). The concepts taught and homework assigned will be on Ren Web. Please check weekly to find out what we are learning and what homework was assigned. Homework assigned is due the following week on the day that the subject re-occurs.
Every month a menu of projects and activities will be given. This will be given out at the beginning of the month and due at the end of the month (unless otherwise posted in Ren Web.) There are nine projects/activities to choose from and students have to complete 7 for an A+, 6 for an A, 5 for a B, and 4 or less will not be accepted. (Students will need to keep working until completed.) The projects should each be completed on full sheets of separate paper or construction paper either hand written or typed and stapled as a booklet. A cover page with the student's name and title should be included. Work should be completed to the best of the student’s capabilities, and as creative as possible! (Another option is that students may complete their projects as a power point presentation or a word document and submit them via e-mail to be presented in class using video technology!)
Here are some of the concepts your child will be discovering:
READING: Poetry books: haiku, tongue twisters, dream poems, author’s techniques
Sign of the Beaver: realistic fiction, plot analysis, vocabulary, character analysis
Windcatcher: realistic narrative, cause / effect, character traits and motivations
The Report Card: realistic fiction, character analysis, analysis, and synthesis
WRITING: Poetry – tongue twisters, alliteration, dream poems
Personification narrative – story structure, personification, character development, writing process
MATH: Proper vs. improper fractions, factors, greatest common factor, simplify/reduce fractions, add fractions, subtract fractions,
multiply fractions, divide fractions, multiples, least common multiple, least common denominator, convert mixed number
to an improper fraction, and cross cancel to simplify/reduce fraction factors
SCIENCE: separate light, prism, make light spectrum, subtraction, path of light, reflection, tessellation, absorption, refraction,
concave, convex, lens crafting, focus, microscopes, telescopes, transparent, opaque, translucent, shadows, light sensitive
paper, pin hole camera, reading and hands on experiments, scientific method and lab write-ups
Please view the WEBSITES tab for links to online math / reading concepts and games.