4th Grade Curriculum
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Trade Books We Read Together in Class
Voyage of the Half Moon
A Lion to Guard Us
Matchlock Gun
Gold Laced Coat
River Burning
Treasure in the Little Trunk
The Amazing Impossible Erie Canal
Timmy O’Dowd
Freedom Crossing -
Science Units
Animals
Magnetism and Electricity
Plants -
Social Studies Units
Maps and Geography of New York State
First People of New York
Colonial New York
The American Revolution
New York – From Colony to State
Early Years of Statehood -
Math Units
Number and Operations in Base Ten
Place Value, Addition and Subtraction of multi-digit numbers, Perimeter, Multiplication,
Area, Division
Operations Algebraic Thinking
Patterns, Sequencing
Number and Operations
Fractions and Decimals
Measurement and Data
Graphs, Customary and Metric Measurement
Geometry -
Writer's Workshop Units
Launching
Fiction
Raising the Quality
Non-Fiction
Punctuation
Memoir
Poetry -
Reading Expectations
Students are expected to read 20 – 30 minutes at home every day. It is the goal that by June, all students will have read 20 chapter books at their reading level.