FOURTH

GRADE NEWS

North Metro Academy

of Performing Arts
Norcross, GA
Tel: (770) 903-3400
LBryant@northmetroacadey.org

January 2016

What Are We Learning?

Math

Reading

During this third quarter, poetry (rhythm

and rhyme), figurative language (similes,
metaphors, imagery, alliteration,
exaggeration, personification), and idioms
are the focus of study using a variety of
texts. (AKS: 24, 41, 52) Students will
write poetry and show how figurative
language and emotive responses can
persuade a reader. We will also continue
our new spelling and vocabulary building
word study using Greek/Latin roots to
determine meanings (photo, auto-,
multi-, -ology, phon-) (AKS: 49). Share
your favorite poem with your student.
Perhaps, this can be a memory project a
great for reading enhancement!

Writing

Every day come

prepared to be the apple

Writing ties in with Reading with the

creation of personal poems and a
persuasive essay that states a clear
position, supports the position, and
excludes unnecessary information.
Students will select a focus, an
organizational structure, and point of
view based on purpose, genre
expectations, audience, length, and
format requirements. (AKS: 91, 92)
Poetry writing may give your student a
new means of personal expression.

Language Arts
Using Standard English gives students
the ability to write to all audiences.
Learning how to use positive,
comparative, and superlative adjectives
and adverbs will enhance student
creativity in writing. (AKS: 60)

Please continuously work on multiplication/

division facts with your student. The first six
weeks of the third quarter involve the study of
decimals and fractions which still uses
multiplication and division skills. (AKS: 20,
24, 33-41) Students will identify hundredths-millions, round decimals with number lines or
hundred chart, read, model, compare and
order 2-digit decimals, +/- decimals, model
and x/ decimals, investigate relationships
between fractions/decimals, model, compare,
order fractions, identify/represent equivalent
fractions, +/- fractions/mixed numbers,
convert/use mixed numbers. This unit of
study will offer many opportunities for real
world applications.

Social Studies
A new nation is on the horizon. For the first
three weeks, students will become patriots
or loyalists. The Patriots (future Americans)
say, We can and should govern ourselves.
No taxation without representation. The
Loyalists say, Long live the King. The
battles begin as the colonists travel the road
to self-governance and Independence.
(AKS: 42-45) Major battles include
Lexington and Concord, Bunker Hill, Valley
Forge, Saratoga, Yorktown, Kettle Creek.
How will these changes affect the people?

Science
Sound We love most music and song.
Crying, whining, shouting and screaming we
can do without. Is sound just noise?(AKS: 13)
During the first three weeks, students will
investigate how sound is produced by
vibrations, define sound as energy, recognize
conditions for pitch, relate attributes of waves
(length, frequency) to sound (pitch, intensity),
and illustrate travel through solid, liquid, gas.

Fourth Grade Learning

Shout Outs!
November/December Pinned Scholars
Marcella Scott
Sasha Mabry
Kaitlyn Kelly
Madison Armstrong
Noah Harry

Kaia Smith

Parents Corner
How can you help your student this year?

Ramon Smith
Nathan Taylor
Bre Melvin

Pinned scholars enjoy lunch with the teacher on

Mondays and receive a bonus treat for their hard
work and dedication to both social and academic
success.

Well done to all who auditioned for

Lion King, Jr! Finalists and Alternates
Madison Armstrong
Kaitlyn Kelly (Alt)
Marcella Scott
Asher Sutton

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Ezre Dunbar
Bre Melvin
Kaia Smith
Nathan Taylor

Reminders to Students

Read with your child nightly. Encourage your

child to think while reading Don't just ask Who?
What? When? to learn about the story. Be sure to
ask Why did this or that happen? Why did the
author? to make sure your student understands the
story.
Practice basic multiplication and division facts
with your student.
Have your student calculate change
at the grocery store or at checkout.
Measure out a recipe or build something
that requires measurement/fractions.

Upcoming Events

Winter Holidays

Bring money for lunch

Sharpen pencils daily

Resolve to start the new year

(third quarter) with a new attitude
for greater effort and higher order
thinking.

December 21, 2015 January 5, 2016

Reminders to Parents
Students may need to replenish the
following supplies:
Pencils, Colored Pencils, Markers
Dry Erase Markers,
For the class
Paper Towels, Tape
Please check and sign your childs
agenda book each night.

Encourage your students to review

class notes on a regular basis.

Return to School
Wednesday, January 6, 2016
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