In April Students Will Explore the Major Differences Between the Structure of Poems, Plays

LITERACY Students will soon be introduced Students will apply these to angles as geometric shapes, and properties specifically to rocks. they will determine angle This will combine our studies of measurement. They will be Physical Sciences and Earth Space responsible for the following terms Sciences and lead students to the and concepts involving lines, understanding that rocks are made points, and angles: point, endpoint, of a combination of materials. Towards the end of the month In April students will explore vertex, line, line segment, parallel, students will explore a variety of the major differences between the perpendicular, ray, angle, degree, minerals to identify and describe structure of poems, plays, and intersecting, acute angle, right these materials. prose. After exploring with each angle, obtuse angle, and straight structure separately, students will angle. Students will also classify 2- compare all three text structures dimensional shapes by their lines and describe the differences and angles. After this short unit on FIELD TRIP! between them. Towards the end of geometry students will begin a the month students will determine study of decimals and fraction theme, compare and contrast comparisons. similar events, and explain the meaning of similes, metaphors, idioms, adages, and proverbs. SOCIAL STUDIES They will also determine the theme of a novel, summarize portions of On Tuesday, May 31st the fourth text, discuss point of view, and grade classes are going to determine meanings of words and Annapolis. Three Centuries Tours phrases. will guide us around the State House, historic neighborhoods, and the Naval Academy’s Chapel. WRITING Permission slips will be sent home towards the end of the month.

This month begins with a focus on the structure of Have a wonderful April! government in Maryland. Students will explore the Maryland State Constitution to discover its democratic values and principles. They will examine the During the month students Office of the Governor, the will examine literary mood and structure and function of the analyze the components of poetry Maryland General Assembly, and Sincerely, to draft poems that reflect real or the importance of the Maryland The Fourth Grade Team imagined life experiences. After Court of Appeals. This study will this study on poems students will lead to an exploration of civic use research to answer the science participation on shaping or social studies inquiry questions government policy in and around they developed earlier in the Maryland. month. Towards the end of the month students will draft SCIENCE paragraphs that develop ideas from across categories of information. They will focus on using words and phrases that incorporate domain specific vocabulary.

MATH MATTERS The month will begin by focusing on the Earth’s changing surface over time through the identification and comparison of observable properties of matter.