Action Math: Grade 4 Full Curriculum

Does your child learn best with a hands-on approach?  By engaging in multi-sensory lessons - movement, hands-on activities, and games - learners will interact with and demonstrate understanding of new skills in several different ways.  I believe in building relationships with students, creating a risk-friendly class environment, and using interactive lessons to motivate students to learn.   The result is typically that we all have fun and the children learn a lot along the way!

Learners should be prepared with paper and pencil for each class.  If students need extra materials to fully participate in class, they will be ones that are typically found around the home and will be used for hands-on activities.  Each week, resources will be provided by the teacher for practice with the skill at home.  Students will apply the skills they've learned by completing project based activities during the semester.  An end-of-class assessment will be given the final week of the class and parents will be provided with a progress report providing information of how well their child mastered the objectives taught.

In class, learners will participate in whole class discussions as well as small group work in breakout rooms.  Learners need to have the tech skills to communicate via Zoom chat, go between tabs, and use interactive learning software.  Nearpod, Google Jamboard, and Classkick will be used to allow learners to collaborate and share work during class.  If your child will be joining class from a tablet, please make sure to download these free apps to their device.  I will provide a username and password for your child to have a Classkick Portfolio which will store their work for the duration of the course.  No personal information is required for the account.  Blooket and Gimkit games will be used to practice skills in a fun way with some friendly competition.  

The sequence of lessons/skills for the 3rd quarter are as follows:
FRACTIONS OPERATIONS – 9 weeks
Week of Jan 29: Equivalent fractions
Week of Feb 5: Comparing fractions
Week of Feb 12: Fractions and decimals
Week of Feb 19: Adding and subtracting fractions
Week of Feb 26: Mixed numbers
Week of Mar 4: Mixed number operations
Week of Mar 11: Multiplying fractions
Week of Mar 18: Fractions on a number line
Week of March 25: NO CLASS - SPRING BREAK
Week of April 1: Fractions review & quiz

Materials needed for 3rd quarter are:
-lined paper and pencil (all classes)
-white board and dry erase marker (all classes)
-sheet protector and dry erase marker (all classes)
-handouts provided by teacher to be printed (all classes)
-building bricks (Lego or other brand) - specific brick list will be provided upon enrollment

The sequence of lessons/skills for the 4th quarter are as follows:
GEOMETRY & MEASUREMENT - 11 weeks
Week of April 8: Convert measurements
Week of April 15: 2-dimensional shapes
Week of April 22: Points, lines, and rays
Week of April 29: Classifying and labeling angles
Week of May 6: Measuring & drawing angles using a protractor
Week of May 13: Combining angle measurements & finding unknown angle measurements 
Week of May 20: Symmetry
Week of May 27: Classify triangles
Week of June 3: Classify 2-dimensional shapes
Week of June 10: Geometry & Measurement review & quiz

Materials needed for Quarter 4 - Geometry & Measurement are:
-lined paper and pencil (all classes)
-white board and dry erase marker (all classes)
-handouts provided by teacher to be printed (all classes)
-ruler (all classes)
-protractor (Weeks 6-7)