September

History

October
History

Classroom Rules & Environment

Regions & Waterways Unit:
VS.2a Bordering bodies of water & states
VS.2b Regions of VA
VS.2c VA Water Features
VS.10b Products & Industries in each region

American Indian Unit:

VS.2d 3 Language Groups
VS.2e American Indian Adaptations
VS.2f Werowocomoco & Jamestown Sites
VS.2g Identifying current state-recognized tribes

Reading Quarter 1 Strategies:

Reading

Clarify & Connect

Intro to Daily Five & CAFE

Introduce Reading Workshop
Rigby Testing
Setting & Characters = A Visit with Grandpa (U1)
Clarifying & Characters (also Genre & Reading Captions) =
Train to Somewhere

Jamestown Unit Part 1: Homeroom

SOLs listed in November
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Quarter 1 Strategies: Clarify & Connect

Characters & Setting (also Reading Graphic Info) =

Yingtaos Friends
Connections & Story Structure (also Expression in Reading) =
Family Pictures
Characters & Setting (also Non-Fiction Research) =
Addie in Charge
Visualizing (also Predicting & Questioning) =
Cricket in Times Square (U2)

Writing

Writing

*Baseline Writing What were 3 fun things you enjoy about the
summer?
*Words Their Way Assessment
*Introduction to Writers Workshop
*Prompt What do you want to learn this year?

*Prompt
*Prompt
*Prompt
*Prompt
*Prompt

Grammar: Subject/Predicates
Common Nouns

Grammar Proper Nouns

Common vs. Proper Nouns
Regular & Irregular Plural Nouns
Pronouns

Math

Math

Science Both Groups

Science

Multiplication Review (Facts through 12)

4.3abc Place Value & continue X facts/data collection review

4.1 Scientific Investigations

4.9 VA Resources

Where would you travel if you could go anywhere?

What is a special fall event and why do you like it?
Show and tell item - which item and why
Favorite Candy and why
Write about a time you worked hard for something.

4.4abd, 4.5cd, & 4.15 Addition, Subtraction & Estimation Unit

4.4ab & 4.15 Multiplication/Est. Product - Unit 1

4.6 Weather (Both Groups)

4.7 Solar System/Moon Part 1 (Homeroom)

November
History

Jamestown Unit Part 1: Team Class

VS.3a Reason for English Colonization in America & Jamestown
VS.3b Geography influenced decision to settle in Jamestown
VS.3c The Importance of the Virginia Charters
VS.3d Importance of General Assembly
VS.3e The Arrival of Women & Africans to Jamestown
& VS.4a The Importance of agriculture & its influence on slavery
VS.3f The Hardships faced by settlers & changes that
ensured survival
VS.3g Interactions between the English settlers & the
native peoples including the contributions of the
Powhatans to the survival of the settlers
Jamestown Unit Part 2: Homeroom
SOLs listed in December

Reading
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Qtr. 2 Strategies: Predicting, Visualizing, & Questioning

Poetry (pgs. 136-139)

Readers Theater
Visualizing & Questioning (also Problem/Solution & Non-Fiction
Questioning) = A Big City Dream

December
History

Jamestown Unit Part 2: Team Class

VS.4b Cultural Landscapes & Settlement Areas of:
- English
- Africans
- Scotch-Irish
- American Indians
- Germans
VS.4c Geographys Influence of Virginias capital relocation
VS.4d Describe how money, barter, & credit were used
VS.4e Describing everyday life in colonial VA
Begin Revolutionary War Unit Part 1 (VS 5abc): Homeroom
VS.5a Reasons colonies went to war w/ Great Britain
VS.5b Roles of Virginians during the Revolutionary War
VS.5c Battle of Great Bridge, ride of Jouette, & victory @
Yorktown

Reading
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Qtr. 2 Strategies: Predicting, Visualizing, & Questioning

Questioning = I Love Guinea Pigs

Predicting & Visualizing (also Non-Fiction Questioning) =
The Swimming Hole
Projects

Writing

Writing

Grammar: Singular Possessive Nouns

Action Verbs
Helping Verbs

Grammar: Linking Verbs

Linking vs. Action Verbs
Present Tense

Math

Math

4.4abd Multiplication Unit Part 2

4.4ac Division/Est. Quotient Unit

4.4ac Division/Est. Quotient Unit

4.16 Patterns/Algebraic Thinking Unit

Science

Science

*DARE Project
*Prompt What would you do if youre invisible?
*Prompt Write about someone or something special.
*Special Project

4.7 Solar System/Moon Part 2 (Homeroom)

4.7 Solar System/Moon Part 1 (Team Class)

*Prompt Favorite Toy Writing

*Prompt Christmas List Writing

4.7 Solar System/Moon Part 2 (Team Class)

4.2 Force, Motion, & Energy (Homeroom)

January
History

Revolutionary War Unit Part 1 (VS 5abc): Both Classes

VS.5a Reasons colonies went to war w/ Great Britain
VS.5b Roles of Virginians during the Revolutionary War
VS.5c Battle of Great Bridge, ride of Jouette, & victory @
Yorktown
Revolutionary War Unit Part 2 (VS 6abc): Homeroom
VS.6a George Washington & James Madison
VS.6b George Mason & Thomas Jefferson
VS.6c Influence of geography on migration to western territories

Reading
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Qtr. 2 Strategies: Predicting, Visualizing, & Questioning

Review Reading Workshop Procedures

Non-Fiction Qualities (also Review Context Clues &
Compare/Contrast) = Komodo Dragons
Tall Tale Qualities (also Compare/Contrast Characters) =
John Henry (U3)
Poetry (Fluency) = Pgs. 250-253
Projects & Cold Read Instruction

February
History

Revolutionary War Unit VS 6a-6c: Team Class

Civil War Unit: Homeroom
VS.7a Differences between the southern & the northern states
VS.7a Creation of West VA
VS.7a Events leading to secession and war
VS.7b Virginias role in the war
VS.7b Major Civil War battles fought in Virginia
VS.7c Roles played by Virginians during the Civil War
Begin Reconstruction Unit: Homeroom

Reading Qtr. 3: Determining Importance, Inference, & Summarizing

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Summarizing (also Authors Purpose & Resources) =

Marven of the Great North Woods
Summarizing (also Cause & Effect and Main Idea & Detail) =
On the Pampas
Poetry (pgs. 366-369) & Cold Read Instruction
Summarizing (also Inference and Non-Fiction: Main Idea &
Details) = The Storm

Writing

Writing

Grammar: Past Tense

Future Tense
All 3 Tenses
Subject Verb Agreement

Grammar: Adjectives
Adverbs

Math

Math

Science

Science

4.2 Force, Motion, & Energy (Both Classes)

4.3 Electricity (Homeroom)

4.3 Electricity (Team Class)

4.5 Living Systems/Animal Adaptations - Part 1 (Homeroom)
Living Systems/Animal Adaptations - Part 2 (Homeroom)

*Prompt Write about a time you were brave.

*Prompt Think about a time someone did something special for you
and write about that time.
*Prompt Write about a funny or exciting experience.

4.10, 4.11, 4.12, & 4.15 Geometry Unit

4.2 & 4.5abc Fractions

*Prompt
*Prompt
*Prompt
*Prompt

Fantasy car writing

Special Valentine writing
A helpful wish writing
3 Picture writing

4.2 & 4.5abc Fractions

March
History

Civil War Unit: Team Class

Reconstruction Unit: Team Class
VS.8a The effects of Reconstruction on life in VA
VS.8b Effects of segregation & Jim Crow on life in VA
VS.8c Virginias growth after the Civil War

Reading Qtr. 3: Determining Importance, Inference, & Summarizing

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Main Idea & Details (also Paraphrasing) = Half-Chicken (U4)

Fluency (also Compare/Contrast & Non-Fiction: Content
Vocabulary) = Blame It on the Wolf
Sequencing, Determining importance of Facts (also Text
Structure & Non-Fiction: Graphic Sources) = Lou Gehrig
Inference (also Summarizing & Non-Fiction: KWL Charts) =
The Disguise

April
History

20th/21st Unit: Both Groups

VS.9a Decline of Agricultural Society & the Growth of Virginias
Cities
VS.9b Impact of Woodrow Wilson & George C. Marshall
VS.9d Contributions of Maggie L. Walker; Harry F. Byrd, Sr.;
Oliver W. Hill; Arthur R. Ashe, Jr.; Linwood Holton, Jr.; & L.
Douglas Wilder
VS.9c Desegregation & Massive Resistance
VS.10a 3 Branches of Virginia Government
VS.10c Transportation, Communication, & Technology

Reading
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Quarter 4 Strategies: Review of Skills

Problem/Solution (also Main Idea and Details & Non-Fiction:

Sequence) = Keepers
Text Structure and Graphic Sources (also Summarizing &
Non-Fiction: Sequence) = Amazing Alice (U5)
Poetry (pgs. 486 489)
Text Structure and Graphic Sources (also Authors Purpose &
Non-Fiction: Sequence) = Into the Sea

Writing

Writing

Grammar: Adverbs
Prepositions

Grammar: Commas in a Series

Commas in Dates and Addresses
Homophones

Math

Math

Science

Science

*Prompt
*Prompt
*Prompt
*Prompt

Writing about your familys reaction to lion in a house.

Exciting school announcement writing
An animal for a day writing.
Super hero writing

4.3 & 4.5cd Decimal Review & Relating Fractions through Models
4.13 Probability
4.9 Elapsed Time
4.5 Living Systems/Animal Adaptations - Part 2 (Both Classes)
Living Systems/Animal Adaptations - Part 1 (Team Class)

*Prompt
*Prompt
*Prompt
*Prompt

What color would you like to be and why?

Are tests important? Why or why not?
Creative writing about a gate and a key
Design your own classroom writing.

4.6, 4.7, & 4.8 Measurement Unit

4.4 Life Processes/ Plants (Both Classes)

May
History

20 /21 Unit: Team Class

VS.9a Decline of Agricultural Society & the Growth of Virginias
Cities
VS.9b Impact of Woodrow Wilson & George C. Marshall
VS.9d Contributions of Maggie L. Walker; Harry F. Byrd, Sr.;
Oliver W. Hill; Arthur R. Ashe, Jr.; Linwood Holton, Jr.; & L.
Douglas Wilder
VS.9c Desegregation & Massive Resistance
VS.10a 3 Branches of Virginia Government
VS.10c Transportation, Communication, & Technology
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June
History
Should be already tested

Review of SOLs for Test

Reading
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Quarter 4 Strategies: Review of Skills

Text Structure & Graphic Sources (also Compare/Contrast &

Non-Fiction Inference) = Space Probes
Biography Genre (also Main Idea/Detail & Graphic Sources) =
Out of the Blue (U6)
Mystery Genre (also Authors Purpose & Graphic Sources) =
Chocolate is Missing
Projects

Reading
**Read Out

Writing

Writing

*Prompt Universe travel writing

*Prompt Favorite day of the week writing
*Prompt Best and worst of 4th grade
*Poetry Unit

*Poetry Unit
*Projects

Grammar: Homophones

Math

Math

Science

Science

4.6, 4.7, & 4.8 Measurement Unit

4.14 Data Collection
Review all skills taught SOL Review & Testing
4.4 Life Processes/Plants (Team Class)