Come join this class as part of your homeschooling schedule. This class is intended to help build learners community in a virtual setting. 

Classes will be held Monday-Friday each week with chances for individual help with Miss Erika before or after each class.
Looking for a learning pod? Come join our learning pod. Students will be able to work with the same group of students and teacher throughout winter and spring 2022 school year. 

In this full class, students will receive all the necessary tools to be successful in fourth grade. This class will cover everything fourth grade, such as, Math, Reading, Science, and Social Studies. My goal is to ensure that learning is fun and successful to every learner enrolled. We will have learning through music (which we will create), dancing, and chanting. 

This class meets the United States National Council for Social Studies and Common Core standards. This means that this class will cover the following but not limited to geography, American government, history around the world, American history, economics, and civics. In this class students will learn how to use analytic skills and understanding citizens different point of views. 

The cost of the class is for the 4th grade learning experience. Students will have access to IXL as learning interventions. IXL is web-based and easy to set up, and can be accessed through most devices. Teachers can assign specific lessons based on students needs. Once students get going, IXL offers consistent feedback and reinforcement to help them work away at their own pace. Students will also have access to IXL as an overall intervention (this is included in the price of class). Students will only be used during our class time, students will not be assigned homework on the IXL platform. 

All class materials will be provided to students through the Outschool platform.

We will read reading materials during our class visits. All reading materials will be on-grade level.

Reading and Writing will cover the following: For reading we follow the Readworks and Eureka Curriculum. 
-Phonics
- Reading Comprehension (different types of stories)
- Spelling (each week students will receive a new set of words)
- Writing
- Grammar and punctuation
- Literature
- Poetry 

Math will cover the following: 
PLACE VALUE, ROUNDING, AND ALGORITHMS FOR ADDITION AND SUBTRACTION
UNIT CONVERSIONS AND PROBLEM SOLVING WITH METRIC MEASUREMENT
MULTI-DIGIT MULTIPLICATION AND DIVISION
ANGLE MEASURE AND PLANE FIGURES
FRACTION EQUIVALENCE, ORDERING, AND OPERATIONS
DECIMAL FRACTIONS
EXPLORING MULTIPLICATION (using larger numbers)

Social Studies covers the following: (Our Social Studies curriculum is used commonly in the public schools; your learner maybe very familiar with it. We will be using Pearson: Social Studies book. We will also be using 180 Day of Fourth-Grade Social Studies. Students will not need to purchase this book)  

Understanding Maps (Students will be able to create their own Map and share it with the class)
Difference between a continent and a state (Students will be able to build and create their own continents) 
What is a community? How to build a community? 
What is a citizen and how to become a good citizen? 
Maps. How to read a map. 
National and Worldwide Landmarks. 
Continent/Countries/States  
The Government/3 Branches of Government 
Local Government 
Federal Government 
State Government 
World Government (How are governments ran in other countries?)


Science covers the following: 
-Classification of animals: Vertebrates (with a backbone) and invertebrates (without a backbone) and the similarities and differences of animals.
-The human body: The skeletal, muscular, and nervous systems.
-Light and vision: Sunlight can create shadows, and light can be reflective. The color of light hitting an object affects how the object is seen. An object is seen when light traveling from the object enters the eye.
-Astronomy and space: The properties of suns, moons, planets, and stars as well as their locations and movements.
Forces and motion: How and why objects move.


* Please note that printable will be sent out every Friday/Sunday evening.  

Each week is broken into 5 modules (each module includes 5 weeks). The breakdown is below:
Week 1 - Week 3: 
Welcome weeks! 
Creative Writing: We will spend this week getting to know each. Writing for understanding.
                            Focus on parts of speech, similes and metaphors, punctuation, double negatives, and spelling rules
                            Formulate multiple paragraph pieces that focus on a specific purpose or audience
English/Reading: Use knowledge of root words to determine the meaning of unknown words within a passage
Math: PLACE VALUE, ROUNDING, AND ALGORITHMS FOR ADDITION AND SUBTRACTION
Social Studies: State government (students will learn based on their own state, which they reside)

Week 4 - Week 8:
Writing: Grammar usage 
              Write original compositions, applying what they’ve learned about grammar and mechanics
              Write a variety of pieces (chronological, cause and effect, personal experience)
English/Reading: Distinguish and interpret words with multiple meanings.
                            Define figurative language (simile, metaphor, hyperbole, personification)
                            
Math: UNIT CONVERSIONS AND PROBLEM SOLVING WITH METRIC MEASUREMENT
Social Studies: Local Government 

Below is a week to week breakdown: 
Week one: 
Math: Placement Values: Understanding Placement Values Within Larger Digits and Multiplication by 10's, 100's, and 1,000's
Reading: Authors Purpose: Lesson 1: Identifying Author’s Purpose in a Newspaper, Lesson 2: Lesson 2: Categorizing Texts According to Author’s Purpose, Lesson 3: Lesson 3: Changing an Author’s Purpose
Science: Classification of animals: Vertebrates (with a backbone) and invertebrates (without a backbone) and the similarities and differences of animals.
Social Studies: Government: local, state, and national government 

Week two: 
Math: Placement Values, Rounding to the Nearest 10's, 100's, 1,000's, 
Reading: Lesson 1: Use signal words (as a result, until, therefore, hence, consequently, for this reason) that show cause-and-effect relationships in expository texts, Lesson 2: Identify multiple causes and effects in historical fiction, Lesson 3: Identify cause-and-effect relationships in myths
Science: Classification of animals: Vertebrates (with a backbone) and invertebrates (without a backbone) and the similarities and differences of animals.
Social Studies: Government: local, state, and national government 

Week three: 
Math: Algorithms fr Addition and Subtraction 
Reading: Lesson 1: Identify and describe the protagonist in a story using text evidence and the term “protagonist”, Lesson 2: Identify and describe the antagonist in a story using text evidence and the term “antagonist”, Lesson 3: Identify and describe how the relationship between the protagonist and antagonist affects the plot
Science: The human body: The skeletal, muscular, and nervous systems.
Social Studies: Government: local, state, and national government. This would be the end of our government unit, we will wrap up this unit by completing create our own government using the knowledge we have learned. Students will be able to present the project in class to their peers. 

Week four: 
Math: Unit of Conversion 
Reading: Compare and Contrast: Lesson 1: Compare and contrast two nonfiction passages, Lesson 2: Write a compare and contrast essay, Lesson 3: Compare and contrast two editorials
Science: -The human body: The skeletal, muscular, and nervous systems. What makes the human body function? 
Social Studies: Communities: What makes a community a community? What is a citizen? How can we be good citizens in our country?

Week five: Unit of Conversion and Problem Solving 
Math: Unit of Conversion and Problem Solving 
Reading: Drawing Conclusion: Identify and describe the difference between explicit information and drawing conclusions
Science: 	Astronomy: Describe and graph water on Earth and topographic map
Social Studies: Maps. Read a map: cardinal directions, Identify lines of latitude and longitude, Use lines of latitude and longitude

Week six: Unit of Conversion and Problem Solving 
Math: Units of Conversion and Problem Solving with Metric Measurement 
Reading: Facts and Opinion: Lesson 1:Identify the difference between fact and opinion in newspapers, Lesson 2:Identify facts that are used to support an opinion in an editorial
Science:  The Earth atmosphere. What is a planet and a dwarf planet. 
Social Studies: National and Worldwide Landmarks. 

Week seven: 
Math: Unit of Conversion and Problem Solving: Word Problem Edition 
Reading: Genre: Identify and describe evidence in a text, showing that it is historical fiction, Lesson 2: Identify and describe evidence in a text, showing that it is a biography, Lesson 3: Identify and describe strategies that can be used to determine the genre of a book
Science: Astronomy and space: The properties of suns, moons, planets, and stars as well as their locations and movements.
Social Studies: Identify oceans and continents

Week eight: 
Math: Multiplication with Larger Digits 
Reading: Main Idea: Lesson 1:Identify the main idea of a paragraph using the topic sentence of the paragraph, Lesson 2: Distinguish main details from secondary details in a paragraph
Science: Forces and motion: How and why objects move.
Social Studies: Identify oceans and continents 

The rest of the list will be added as the semester continues.