John Herbert Phillips Academy
4th Grade
1st Nine Week Syllabus
Math-Number & Operations in Base Ten
CCSS: Generalize place value understanding for multi-digit whole numbers.
- CCSS:Use place value understanding and properties of operations to perform multi-digit arithmetic.
Science-Life Science
- Describe the interdependence of plants and animals.
- Describing behaviors and body structures that help animals survive in particular habitats
- Describing life cycles of various animals to include incomplete and complete metamorphosis
- Classify animals as vertebrates or invertebrates and as endotherms or ectotherms.
- Describing the organization of cells into tissues, organs, and organ systems
- Classifying common organisms into kingdoms, including Animalia, Plantae, Protista, Fungi, Archaebacteria, and Eubacteria
Reading-Scott Foresman, Chapter Book, &Read Aloud / LS.4.5c-Tracing the flow of energy through a food chain
Example: producer, first-level consumer, second-level consumer, and third-level consumer
- CCSS Literature 1. Refer to details and examples in a text when explaining what the text says explicitly and when drawing inferences from the text.
- CCSS Informational Text 2. Determine the main idea of a text and explain how it is supported by key details; summarize the text
Grammar and Spelling-Scott Foresman / LS.4.6b-Describing the grouping of organisms into populations, communities, and ecosystems
- Foundational Skills 3. Know and apply grade-level phonics and word analysis skills in decoding words.
- Foundational Skills 3.a. Use combined knowledge of all letter-sound correspondences, syllabication patterns, and morphology (e.g., roots and affixes) to read accurately unfamiliar multisyllabic words in context and out of context.
- Foundational Skills 4. Read with sufficient accuracy and fluency to support comprehension.
- Foundational Skills 4.a. Read on-level text with purpose and understanding.
- Language 1. Demonstrate command of the conventions of standard English grammar and usage when writing or speaking.
- Language 2. Demonstrate command of the conventions of standard English capitalization, punctuation, and spelling when writing.
- Language 4.c. Consult reference materials (e.g., dictionaries, glossaries, thesauruses), both print and digital, to find the pronunciation and determine or clarify the precise meaning of key words and phrases.
Social Studies- Alabama History
IB- THEME- How We Organize Ourselves (Economy)
- ACOS#1: Identify historical and current economic, political, and geographic information about Alabama on thematic maps.
- ACOS#2: Describe cultures, governments, and economies of prehistoric and historic Native Americans in Alabama.
- ACOS#3: List reasons for European exploration and settlement in Alabama and the impact of Europeans on trade, health, land expansion, and tribal
- ACOS#4: Describe the relationship of the five geographic regions of Alabama to the movement of Alabama settlers during the early nineteenth century.
- ACOS#5: Describe Alabama's entry into statehood, including Alabama's constitutions and the three branches of government.
- ACOS#6: Identify cultural, economic, and political aspects of the lifestyles of early nineteenth-century farmers, plantation owners, slaves, and townspeople.
Writing- ExpressWriting
- Writing 3. Write narratives to develop real or imagined experiences or events using effective technique, descriptive details, and clear event sequences.
- Writing 3.c. Use a variety of transitional words and phrases to manage the sequence of events.
- Writing 2.d. Use precise language and domain-specific vocabulary to inform about or explain the topic. Writing 4. Produce clear and coherent writing in which the development and organization are appropriate to task, purpose, and audience.
- Writing 5. With guidance and support from peers and adults, develop and strengthen writing as needed by planning, revising, and editing.