What Your Fourth Grader Will Learn This Year
Fourth grade students will learn the following concepts and ideas by the end of the school year:
Reading
- Identifies main idea and details
- Distinguishes between fact and opinion
- Recognizes cause and effect, sequence of events, author’s purpose and story structure
- Writes short and extended responses for questions
- Summarizes stories; and compares and contrasts
- Makes inferences and predictions
- Develops vocabulary knowledge
Social Studies
- The students learn about Florida’s past, present and future. The themes that relate to Florida are: Geography, Native Floridians, Explorers, Colonization, Statehood, Economic Growth, Modern Florida and Government.
Writing
- Students prepare for FCAT Writes as they learn how to write 5 paragraph narrative and expository essays.
Math
- Number sense, concepts & operation (counting, order, estimation, fractions, decimals, percents, exponents, number stories, facts, algorithms, and mental math)
- Algebraic Thinking (properties, sequences, functions, number sentences, variables and formulas)
- Data Probability (mean, median, mode, range, tally charts, line plots, graphs and probability)
- Measurement (weight, capacity, money, time, temperature, perimeter, area, volume, diameter, circumference and angle)
- Geometry (2 and 3 dimensional shapes, symmetry, congruence and angles)
Science
- Earth Science (water cycle, weather, earth’s surface, rapid and slow changes and natural resources)
- Physical Science (matter, heat, electricity, magnetism, sound, light, motion, and simple machines)
- Space and Technology (the solar system and the effects of technology)
- Life Science (plants, animals, food webs, ecosystems, and the human body)