4th Grade
Welcome to 4th grade at Green Woods Charter School!
Literacy
Green Woods uses American Reading Company (ARC) Core as our ELA curriculum resource. ARC Core is a framework that provides teachers with a structure to promote inquiry through apprenticeship. The resource provides a scope and sequence aligned to the Common Core State
Standards (CCSS), high interest text for teacher modeling, and varying levels of text for student independent work. Along with the framework, ARC provides an Independent Reading Level Assessment that guides teachers through setting individual reading goals for students. read
Standards (CCSS), high interest text for teacher modeling, and varying levels of text for student independent work. Along with the framework, ARC provides an Independent Reading Level Assessment that guides teachers through setting individual reading goals for students. readThe ARC resources support students as developing readers by providing them with strategies they need to be able to read complex text on their own. Reading, Writing, Listening, Speaking, and Language skills are embedded throughout each unit as students study themes connected to Science, Social Studies, and Literature.
There are 4 units of study throughout the school year. In Fourth Grade these units consist of Literacy Lab, Animal Adaptations, Mystery and Forensic Science, and Countries of the World.
In conjunction with ARC, Green Woods also uses the Collins Writing Program. Collins Writing program is a 5 step approach to writing. Students will focus on different skills through each stage of writing, from your typical “rough draft” (Stage 1) all the way through editing and publishing (Stage 5). The framework used in Collins Writing gives clear expectations for students throughout the entire writing process. It incorporates specific focus areas that are mastered before moving forward. Since the method is used in all grades at GWCS, it allows for common language and skills to be developed from kindergarten through eighth grade.
Math
Green Woods uses the Into Math curriculum built for instruction on the Common Core State Standards (CCSS). This curriculum is an intentional and comprehensive mathematics program that centers on student growth. Growth is maximized when instruction, assessment, and mindset are coordinated and aligned. Throughout the year, students build their conceptual understandings, improve their procedural fluency, and apply their knowledge in meaningful contexts and real-world applications. With more focused learning, every student can achieve at their highest levels.
In Fourth Grade the Into Math Program focuses on place value and whole number operations, multiplication and division problems, extend and apply multiplication, fractions and decimals, operations and fractions, two-dimensional figures and symmetry, measurement, data, and time.
Science
Students in the fourth grade will use Bring Science Alive! Exploring Science Practices, to understand the relationship between the structures of plants and animals and how they function; ways energy is used and transferred, what causes the changes to the Earth’s surface and how waves move and travel in patterns that can be observed. They will use science and engineering practices and crosscutting concepts to figure out the science content through active investigations.
Year at a Glance
