Daily Schedule
8:25-8:50 Class Meeting
8:50-9:15 Reading Core
9:15-10:00 Specials
10:00-10:40 Reading Core
10:40-11:10 Writing
11:10-12:25 Math
12:25-1:10 Recess and Lunch
1:10-2:00 Writing
2:00-3:00 Reading Groups
3:00-3:20 Reading Skills
3:25 Dismissal
Reading
4th graders at Edison use the CKLA curriculum in which they deepen their vocabulary, reading comprehension and writing skills.
Additionally, 4th graders have one reading unit focusing on Colorado History - This module launches the study of perspectives on Colorado History. Students begin to think about these perspectives by engaging in a Gallery Walk where they examine many primary source documents that connect to various perspectives on the history of Colorado from those of Native Americans, Explorers, Fur Trappers, Prospectors and Miners, and Farmers, Ranchers, and Settlers. In the second part of the module students will read the book A Cabin in Cripple Creek - The story follows a family who moves to Cripple Creek, Colorado during the Gold Rush of 1895. The family faces challenges of being in a new city and working hard to follow their dream. Students will be learning about life during this time period as well as historical people who struck it rich in Colorado during the 1800's. Students will answer text dependent questions based on the text. The last section of the module will focus on students researching significant people in Colorado's history and writing their biographies.Part of this module is also a 4th grade show about the history of Colorado.
Math
Grade 4 Module 1: Place Value, Rounding, and Algorithms for Addition and Subtraction: In this 25-day module of Grade 4, students extend their work with whole numbers. They begin with large numbers using familiar units (hundreds and thousands) and develop their understanding of millions by building knowledge of the pattern of times ten in the base ten system on the place value chart (4.NBT.1). They recognize that each sequence of three digits is read as hundreds, tens, and ones followed by the naming of the corresponding base thousand unit (thousand, million, billion).
Grade 4 Module 2: Unit Conversions and Problem Solving with Metric Measurement: Module 2 uses length, mass and capacity in the metric system to convert between units using place value knowledge. Students recognize patterns of converting units on the place value chart, just as 1000 grams is equal 1 kilogram, 1000 ones is equal to 1 thousand. Conversions are recorded in two-column tables and number lines, and are applied in single- and multi-step word problems solved by the addition and subtraction algorithm or a special strategy. Mixed unit practice prepares students for multi-digit operations and manipulating fractional units in future modules.
Grade 4 Module 3: Multi-Digit Multiplication and Division: In this 43-day module, students use place value understanding and visual representations to solve multiplication and division problems with multi-digit numbers. As a key area of focus for Grade 4, this module moves slowly but comprehensively to develop students’ ability to reason about the methods and models chosen to solve problems with multi-digit factors and dividends.
Grade 4 Module 4: Angle Measure and Plane Figures: This 20-day module introduces points, lines, line segments, rays, and angles, as well as the relationships between them. Students construct, recognize, and define these geometric objects before using their new knowledge and understanding to classify figures and solve problems. With angle measure playing a key role in their work throughout the module, students learn how to create and measure angles, as well as create and solve equations to find unknown angle measures. In these problems, where the unknown angle is represented by a letter, students explore both measuring the unknown angle with a protractor and reasoning through the solving of an equation. Through decomposition and composition activities as well as an exploration of symmetry, students recognize specific attributes present in two-dimensional figures. They further develop their understanding of these attributes as they classify two-dimensional figures based on them.
Grade 4 Module 5: Fraction Equivalence, Ordering, and Operations: In this 40-day module, students build on their Grade 3 work with unit fractions as they explore fraction equivalence and extend this understanding to mixed numbers. This leads to the comparison of fractions and mixed numbers and the representation of both in a variety of models. Benchmark fractions play an important part in students’ ability to generalize and reason about relative fraction and mixed number sizes. Students then have the opportunity to apply what they know to be true for whole number operations to the new concepts of fraction and mixed number operations.
Grade 4 Module 6: Decimal Fractions: This 20-day module gives students their first opportunity to explore decimal numbers via their relationship to decimal fractions, expressing a given quantity in both fraction and decimal forms. Utilizing the understanding of fractions developed throughout Module 5, students apply the same reasoning to decimal numbers, building a solid foundation for Grade 5 work with decimal operations.
Grade 4 Module 7: Exploring Measurement with Multiplication: In this 20-day module, students build their competencies in measurement as they relate multiplication to the conversion of measurement units. Throughout the module, students will explore multiple strategies for solving measurement problems involving unit conversion.
Social Studies
Colorado History, Colorado Geography, Colorado Government, Colorado Economics.
Science
Unit One - Energy Conversions: Students take on the role of systems engineers for Ergstown, a fictional town that experiences frequent blackouts, and explore the reasons why an electrical system can fail. Students apply what they learn to choosing new energy sources and energy converters for the town, and then they prepare arguments for why their design choices will make the town’s electrical system more reliable.
Unit Two - Vision and Light: Working as conservation biologists, students figure out why a population of Tokay geckos has decreased since the installation of new highway lights in the rain forest. Students use their understanding of vision, light, and information processing to figure out why an increase in light in the geckos’ habitat is affecting the population. Then students turn their attention to humans by designing their own investigations in order to learn more about how our senses help us survive.
Unit Three - Earth's Features: Playing the role of geologists, students help the director of Desert Rocks National Park explain how and when a particular fossil formed and how it came to be in its current location. Students figure out what the environment of the park was like in the past and why it has so many visible rock layers.
Unit Four - Waves, Energy and Information: Working in their role as marine scientists, students figure out how mother dolphins communicate with their calves. They write a series of scientific explanations with diagrams to demonstrate their growing understanding of how sound waves travel. Then they apply what they’ve learned about waves, energy, and patterns in communication to figure out how to create patterns that can communicate information over distances, transferring data from one place to another.