2012-2013 Content Map


Discovery School                                                                                                                                           Tegucigalpa, Honduras
Tentative Content Map for 4th Grade 2012-2013


Language Arts
Math
Science
Social Studies
QUARTER
1
Ø       Becoming an independent reader
Ø       The writing process/learning to express ourselves
Ø       Parts of speech, punctuation, editing, and sentence struc.
Ø        “Stone Fox” –realistic fiction genre. 
Ø       Reading non-fiction text  (fact/fiction fact/opinion)  

Ø       Number Sense/Patterns
Ø       Basic Facts
Ø       Addition and Subtraction of greater numbers
Ø       Problem solving
Ø       Algebra





Ø       Land and Water
Ø       Maps and Globes

QUARTER 2
Ø       Narrative writing, understanding plot and pre-writing process
Ø       “Best Christmas”.....humour genre.
Ø       Read and perform: “First Stop Ellis Island”
Ø       Prefixes/suffixes/root words



Ø       Multiplication and Division of greater numbers
Ø       Geometry
Ø       Motion and Design
Ø       Immigration
QUARTER 3
Ø       Similies/metaphors
Ø       Poetry
Ø       “Million Dollar Shot” –realistic fiction
Ø       Proofreading
Ø       “Sounder” –historical fiction
Ø       Probability and Statistics
Ø       Fractions
Ø       Decimals







Ø       Slavery
QUARTER
4

Ø       Biographies
Ø       Persuasive writing
Ø       Word choices
Ø       Exploring the Mystery genre
Ø       “Because of Winn-Dixie”
Ø       Measurement
Ø       Graphing
Ø       Electricity


·        Changes in these plans may occur due to special activities or because of the needs of the group.
·        Reading, Spelling and Grammar are continuous throughout the year.

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