Grade 4 Curriculum Overview Math Social Studies/ Science Language Arts Hebrew Language Arts Judaic Studies: Tefillah, Judaic Studies: Hagim, Parasha, Humash Israel Singapore Math - Primary Social Studies Reading Reading Tefillah Hagim Mathematics - is used in Grades K-5 New Jersey and Local History Literature *Using the Haverim B’Ivrit ● Creating a Makom Kadosh ● Hagei Tishrei ● Whole Numbers Why does geography matter? What ● Non-Fiction Curriculum ● Importance of Accurate Reading ○ Hodesh Ha’Rahamim V’ ○ Ten Thousands, Hundred makes a complex society? What ○ Text Features ● Reading Short Fiction Stories, in the Siddur Ha’Slihot Thousands, and Millions motivates people to explore and ○ Identifying Main Idea and Advertisements, Non-Fiction ● Review the Concepts of Shevah, ○ Shofar - Zikhron T’ruah ○ Approximation colonize other lands? What does it Supporting Details Passages, Poems, and Comics for Hodaya, and Bakasha ○ Yom Kippur - Initem Et ○ Factors mean to be free? ○ Inferencing Meaning ● Add Elu D’varim and Hatzi Kadish Nafshotekhem; Yonah ○ Multiples ● Fiction ● Reading in All Genres with ● Identifying Words of Hodaya ○ V’Samahta B’Hagekhah ○ Order of Operations New Jersey Geography/Map Skills ○ Inferencing Accuracy and Fluency ● Add Hallel and Al Ha’Nisim in ○ Arba’at HaMinim ○ Negative Numbers ● Geographical Features ○ Character Traits - Beyond the Birkat HaMazon ○ Shalosh Regalim ● Four Operations of Whole ● Physical, Political, Contour, Text Vocabulary ● In-Depth Study of Aleinu - Shevah ● Hanukkah Numbers Climate Maps ○ Using Context Clues, ● Haverim B’Ivrit 5 & 6 ● Al Ha’Nisim at Hanukkah ○ The Story of Hanukkah ○ Addition and Subtraction ● Structural Features of Maps and Dictionary, and Thesaurus to ● Mifgash Boker Vocabulary ● Full Minhah ○ Hasidim and Mityavnim ○ Multiplication and Division Interpreting Information Understand New Vocabulary ● Adjectives as Vocabulary ○ Brachot, Mitzvot, and ○ Multiplication by a 2-digit ● Scale, Longitude, Latitude; ● Folktales Parasha Minhagim number Finding Places Based on Latitude ○ Genre Features Grammar ● Understand the Distinction ● Tu B’Shvat ● Fractions and Longitude ○ Themes, Morals, Lessons ● Present and Past Tense; Exposure between P’shat and Drash ○ Parts of the Tree ○ Equivalent Fractions Lenni Lenape ○ Creation Stories to Future Tense ● Introduce Students to the ○ Man Being Sustained by the ○ Adding and Subtracting ● Migration to North American ● Non-Fiction for Research ● Kodem and Aharkakh Concept of Preparing and Sharing Fruits of the Land Fractions ● Physical Features and Climate ○ Reading for Information ● Im and Bli a D’var Torah ○ Our Responsibility to Cultivate ○ Mixed Numbers Affect Settlement and Population ○ Note-Taking ● Omrim sheh... ● Each Parasha is taught with a the Land ○ Improper Fractions Growth ○ Citations ● Haval sheh.../Mazal sheh... focus on a theme or on mitzvot ● Purim ○ Fractions and Division ● Daily Life (Homes, Food, ○ Main Idea and Supporting ● Exceptions to Masc./Fem. and learned, for example: Vayeira - ○ Mishenikhnas Adar… ○ Fractions of a Set Childhood, Tools…) Details Singular/Plural rules Tzedek u Mishpat; Vayigash - ○ Mitzvot and Minhagim for ● Geometry ● Culture, Government, ● Poetry (Shulhan/Shulhanot) Making Peace with Your Brothers; Purim ○ Right Angles Celebrations, Festivals ○ Poetic Language and Devices ● Piel Verbs Trumah - The Joint Contributions ○ Megillah Reading ○ Measuring Angles ● European Effect on Lenni Lenape ○ Organization, Structure, and ● Numbers 1-20 in Masc. and Fem. to Establishing the Mishkan ○ Shushan Purim and Walled ○ Perpendicular Lines (Bridge to Colonial Unit) Patterns ● Structure of Meh/Mee, Meh/Ma Cities (Yerushalayim) ○ Parallel Lines Colonial America: Focus on New ○ Types of Poetry (from whom) Humash ● Pesach ○ Quadrilaterals Jersey ○ Analyzing for Meaning ● Be’Ad and Neged Humash learning is balanced ○ Nisan, the First Month ○ Triangles ● Explorers ● Biography ● Yesh Ba.../Ayn Ba… between making meaning of the ○ Hag vs. Hol HaMoed ○ Circles ● Early Settlements ○ Reading for Information ● Past Tense - Masc./Fem., text linguistically and creating ○ Seder Mitzrayim vs. Seder ○ Solid Figures ● Life in the Colonies ○ Fact vs. Opinion Singular/Plural, with All Pronouns spiritual connections for our Dorot ○ Nets ● Key Events and People in History ○ Summarizing students. ○ The Haggadah ● Area and Perimeter Leading to the Revolutionary War ○ Famous Artist Unit (See Writing ● Review Concept of Big Ideas and ○ Shalosh Regalim ○ Area of Rectangles Fighting for Freedom Writing) ● Writing Short Stories Essential Questions ● Yom HaShoah ○ Perimeter of Rectangles ● Revolutionary War ● Writing in the Past and Present ● Parashat Vayeira: Hakhnasat ○ Commemoration of the Day ○ Composite Figures ● Constitution/Bill of Rights Writing Tense Orhim ○ Respecting and Understanding ● Decimals ● Rights in Early America ● Narrative: Personal Narrative - Life ● Writing Advertisements and ○ The Words of the Torah Are “the Other”; Developing ○ Tenths of a Child in the Tribe Persuasive Pieces Not Always Clear Tolerance ○ Hundredths Science ● Informational: Native American ● Writing Short Poems ○ The Significance of the Words ● Yom HaZikaron ○ Thousandths ● Three Sisters Garden Data Life ● Utilizing New Grammar and “Vayeira HaShem” ○ Siren ○ Rouding Collection ● Informational: Famous Artists Unit Vocabulary in Writing ○ The Interactions between God ○ Conversation about the IDF ○ Addition and Subtraction ● Geomorphology: Glaciers ○ Reading Short Biographies of and Avraham: Similarities and ○ Transition from Sadness to Joy ○ Multiplication and Division ● Simple and Compound Machines Various Artists from Various Conversation Differences ● Yom Ha’Atzmaut ● Congruent and Symmetric Figures Style Periods ● Conversation Developing around ○ *See Israel Unit ○ Congruent Figures ● Simple Machine Challenge: ○ Exposure to Many Books of Art Vocabulary and Grammatical ● Parashat Vayeira: Tzedek ○ Commemoration of the Day ○ Tiling Patterns Engineer a Lacrosse Stick and Painting Structures Taught U’Mishpat ● Yom Yerushalayim ○ Line Symmetry ● Measuring Force and Calculating ○ Choose Artist for Study ● Role-Playing ○ Working towards Tzedek and ○ *See Israel Unit ○ Rotational Symmetry Work ○ Research Artist; Learn Note- Mishpat in the World ○ Commemoration of the Day ● Coordinate Graphs and Changes in ● Energy Transfer taking Skills ○ The Interactions between God ● Lag B’Omer/Shavuot Quantity ● Potential and Kinetic Energy: ○ Three-Paragraph Essay and Avraham: Similarities and ○ Aliyah LaRegel ● Data Analysis and Probability Engineer Slingshots ○ Create Related Poem and Differences ○ Lessons Learned from the ● Measures and Volume ● Solar Energy: Engineer Painting ● Parashat Vayeira: Akedat Yitzhak Story of Ruth Greenhouse Tunnels ● Opinion: Persuasive Writing Piece ○ “Testing” Avraham ○ Accepting the Ger ● Wind Energy: Engineer Wind Tied to Social Studies or Reading ○ Obeying God Can Be Difficult ○ Tikkun Leil Shavuot Turbines ● Fiction: Folktales; Colonial Diary ● Parashat Toldot ○ Mitzvot U’Minhagim ● Wetlands ● Poetry ○ The Role of the Avot and ● Aviary Adaptations ● Writing Process: Brainstorming, Imahot Israel Revision, Editing, Conferring ○ A Gift from God Is Something The Israel Curriculum in Grades 1-5 ● Sentence Structure Everyone Wants is divided into four units to be ○ The Significance of a Blessing studied throughout the year: Yisrael Word Study (Blessings from God vs. Sheli, Tu B’Shvat, Yom Ha’Atzmaut, Rebecca Sitton Spelling Is Used for Blessings from Human Beings) and Yom Yerushalayim. The units Spelling ● Introduction to Rashi look at Israel through the lens of ● Parts of Speech: Nouns and Verbs geography, history, and culture. The ● Parts of Speech: Adjectives and “Enduring Understandings” for all Adverbs grades are as follows: Israel Is an ● Writing Conventions Independent State; Israel Is a home ● Figurative Language for Every Jew. ● Word Choice Yisrael Sheli ● Contractions ● How to Develop Greater ● Quotation Usage Independence ● Prefixes/Suffixes ● Characteristics of an Independent ● Review of Previous Learned State with a Focus on Spelling Rules Government and K’nesset ● New Spelling Patterns ● Borders and Neighbors ● Vocabulary in Relation to Reading ● Characteristics of a Democratic Material Country ● Review of the Map; Geographical Division of the Country Tu B’Shvat ● Helping the Desert Bloom ● Water and Water Conservation ● The JNF and Its Role in Israel’s History ● Fruits of Israel Yom Ha’Atzmaut ● Herzl Realizing the Dream ● The Halutzim and Aliyot ● Israel and the Middle East ● The British Mandate and the Declaration of the State Yom Yerushalayim ● Sources in the Tanakh ● Aliyah LaRegel ● The Four Quarters of the Old City ● The Montefiore Windmill ● Important Sites, Ancient and Modern .