1. Curriculum Night
4th Grade
Cotswold Elementary

2. Field Trips Biz-Town Monday, October 16 and Tuesday October 17, 2017
Raleigh
~March 16, 2018
Legislative Building
Capitol Building
History Museum
Science Museum

3. Essential Standards-Science
The units that are covered in 4th grade Science include:
Forces and Motion
Matter: Properties and Change
Energy: Conservation and Transfer
Earth and the Universe
Earth History
Ecosystems
Molecular Biology

4. Essential Standards- Social Studies
The units in Social Studies this year include:
Economics and Financial Literacy
Civics and Government
North Carolina History and Culture
Geography and Environmental Literacy
Social Studies and Science will be integrated into the ELA curriculum through Reader’s Workshop studies on historical fiction and nonfiction texts.

5. IB Units
Where We Are In Place and Time- Geography and North Carolina History
Who We Are Civics and Government
How We Express Ourselves North Carolina Culture
How The World Works Forces and Motion
How We Organize Ourselves Economics and Financial Literacy
Sharing the Planet Earth and the Universe Earth History, Ecosystems
See POI for details!

6. Math Common Core Place Value
Read ,write, and compare numbers to one million, use all four operations to answer word problems (multiplication, division, addition, subtraction)
Fractions
Add, subtract, multiply, and compare fractions
Mixed numbers and improper fractions
Algebra
Order of Operations and algebraic expressions
Input/Output charts
Measurement and Data
Measurement conversions and volume
Line plots
Area and Perimeter
Geometry
Draw and identify lines and angles
Classify shapes by properties

7. Reading Lucy Calkins Reading Workshop Interpreting Characters
Non-Fiction
Reading History
Historical Fiction Book Clubs
Emphasize the necessity to provide text evidence! Explain that this is something they can push at home as well!

8. Writing Students will integrate writing across the curriculum.
Students will concentrate on grammar in writing workshop as well.
Not a separate grade on the report card and writing grades will be included in ELA.

9. Grading 100-90 = A 89-80 = B 79-70 = C 69-60 = D 59 and below = F
Students may turn in work late, but 10% will be deducted per day. No late work will be accepted within the week of posting grades for progress reports and report cards. All work must be in to post grades.
Grades will be posted by standard. This is how you will see each assignment in Powerschool. Students must get an 79% on a formal assignment or better. If they do not, the assignment will be re- taught, and a new assignment will be given.

10. Behavior Homework & Communication
Cotswold’s Essential 10
Credits and Debits System (entire grade level).
Homework assigned on the Friday of each week, and it is due the following Friday.
2 1/2 hours of reading a week
Math worksheet
Agenda books are a home/school connection for teachers & parents