August
August 18th we will start Unit 3 in the current curriculum focusing on the following scopes & sequence.
LANGUAGE ARTS Level 4 Unit 3-4 Lessons 51-58
Grammar, Punctuation &
Usage
• Abbreviations: Part 3
• Capitalization and titles
• Commands
• Editing
• Parallel construction
• Run-on sentences
• Verb tenses
Homophones
• knead/need
• mail/male
• marry/merry
• pail/pale
• pain/pane
Writing
• Adding description
• Learning from the masters
• News article writing
• Rewriting in your own words
• Summarizing
• Using sensory language: taste
• Varying first words in a paragraph
• Writing effective paragraphs
• Writing from the heart
Literature,
Art & Geography
• Art study
• Artist: Albert Bierstadt
• Contiguous states
• Idioms
• Light and shadow
• Literature: context clues, judging
books, summarizing
• United States of America
• US Capitol, Washington
Monument, White House, Statue
of Liberty
• US National Parks
• Washington, DC
Spelling Rules: Using DGE
Consonant + LE
Principles
Recognizing: vowel vs. consonant suffixes
Suffix: -al
Prefixes: over-, un
Spelling Patterns: WR, Challenging words with ACC
Contractions: couldn’t, hadn’t, he’s, it’s, she’d, she’ll, where’s,
who’ll
MATH Level 4 Unit 3-4
New Concepts
- add/subtract mixed numbers (uncommon denominators)
- compare decimal numbers to the thousandths place estimation (multiplication and division)
- long division (check quotients using multiplication)
- long division (decimal numbers)
- long division (two-digit divisor) mean, median, mode, and range
- mental math (multiplication)
- multiplication (decimal numbers)
- multiplication (three-digit by two-digit)
- percents
- round decimal numbers to the ones and tenths place
- short division
- write fractions and mixed numbers as decimals
Concepts Reviewed and Expanded Upon
- compare positive and negative numbers
- conversion (units of weight)
- coordinate graph
- fractions of a set
- identify positive and negative numbers
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