Fourth Grade News 

March 19, 2019 

 
​ ​ ​ A Look Ahead  SPRING TESTING DATES: 
  This spring the 4th 
COL- Friday, March 29th @ 8:10AM   grade class will take the 
  SBAC tests to assess 
Early Release March 21st   math and literacy. We 
Parent Teacher Conferences  are encouraging the 
  students to do their 
Early Release March 22nd   best but see these 
Teacher Professional Development  standardized tests as only one piece of a 
  larger assessment pie! NECAP tests are 
Spring Vacation- April 15th-19th  no longer given in fourth grade; they will 
   now take these tests next year in 5th 
Upcoming Field Trip to VT Statehouse  grade.  
in May- date TBD  4th Grade SBAC Testing Dates: 
Mon April 29, Tue April 30, Wed May 1  
Mon May 6, Tue May 7, Wed May 8 
8:30-10:30      
Math  Vocabulary  

   
Students are moving right along in Unit 6.  We have been really pleased with this new unit as 
the students seem to enjoy saying these new words 
They continue to​ learn strategies that will  in daily conversations and catching when we say 
help them multiply multi-digit numbers,  these words as well. The excitement when students 
find vocabulary words in their independent reading 
divide a multi-digit number by a 1-digit 
or group books is contagious! They have done a great 
number, solve problems about the area and  job referring to a thesaurus or dictionary to 
perimeter of rectangles , review equivalent  understand meaning and to find synonyms. The 
words are taken directly from the book, ​Green 
fractions, and add and subtract fractions  Mountain Hero​ to give students more context to 
and mixed numbers.   understand the word and more opportunities to find 
 
the words in text. 
 
 
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March 19, 2019 
 
 
Reader’s Workshop/VT History  Global Citizenship 
We have begun the highly   
For the next month we will be zooming back into 
anticipated novele ​Green Mountain 
Vermont and taking a closer look at Vermont's 
Hero​ by Edgar Newman Jackson. By 
HIstory through the lens of Green Mountain Hero 
integrating our reading standards 
as well as VT Economy. Students will be 
and social studies standards on 
gathering facts from non-fiction texts and 
Vermont state history, students are 
Internet articles to better formulate their own 
developing an understanding of what life was like for 
opinions about Vermont’s products . ​Students 
a Vermont settler in the Pre-Revolutionary War 
will soon be able to say: 
days. . Students continue to work on the following 
reading and social studies goals:    ● I can define the word economy 
● I can summarize a piece of fiction in my own 
● I can identify major industries and 
words. 
● I can use specific details in a story to help me  businesses that support the Vermont 
describe a character, setting or event in the 
economy. 
story.  
● I can read closely to find answers explicitly in  ● I can provide an example of supply and 
text (right there answers).  demand. 
● I can figure out the meanings of words and 
phrases an author uses.    ● I can give specific 
● I can describe ways that life in Vermont has  information about one of 
both changed and stayed the same over time 
● I can initiate an inquiry by asking relevant and  the main Industries of 
focusing questions based on what I have seen,  Vermont. 
what I have read, what I have listened to, 
and/or what I have researched.   
● I can create and interpret data presented in 
timelines. 
● I can examine how events, people, problems 
and ideas have shaped the community and 
Vermont (e.g., Ann Story’s role in the American 
Revolution) 
● I can make predictions based on an 
understanding of the past and the present in 
Vermont. (e.g., What was farming in Vermont 
like in the past? What is it like now? What 
will it be like in the future?)  
 
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March 19, 2019