Science in fourth grade centers on a hands-on, student-centered exploration of our natural world. Critical thinking, math reasoning, and problem solving help students to apply and explain strategies that they learn to real-world math experiences. Resources such as Cuisenaire rods, geoboards, and protractors are used to conceptually understand the mathematics that they are learning. Students increase their knowledge in the geometry domain by investigating angles and basic geometry terms. Students engage in shared reading and writing experiences, small-group guided reading, and independent reading and writing opportunities.įourth grade students extend the concepts of multiplication and division from third grade, as well as begin the understanding of operations with fractions and the introduction of decimals. Students compose informative, narrative, and opinion pieces. They engage in understanding literary and informational texts and using grade-level skills to become proficient and expressive readers and writers. *Programming available varies at local schoolsįourth grade students are immersed in reading, writing, listening, and speaking throughout their day. Excellence in teaching guides your child’s educational experience from Kindergarten to graduation and into life. In Cobb County classrooms, students are immersed every day in learning experiences based on exploration, problem-solving, and critical thinking in all content areas, including the core areas of English Language Arts, Mathematics, Social Studies, and Science and in specialized academic content including Health, Music, Physical Education, Technology, Visual Arts, and World Languages*. Our teaching is aligned with content standards and our teachers bring those standards to life for your child through various strategies designed to meet your child’s learning strengths and needs. Great question for your student's teachers: How well do your curriculum and your daily activities align to the standards for this class? Look at the standards for the class and talk with your teacher about how well your student is doing in each area.The Cobb County School District is committed to providing your child an academic experience that will develop his or her knowledge and skills at every grade level and to ensuring a strong foundation is established for your child to reach his or her greatest potential.
Be sure to ask your teachers and yours school officials about how the curriculum of your schools relates to the standards your students will be striving to achieve.
You can go to CPALMS to see standards for all subjects. You can explore this site for information on standards for every subject and grade for which there is a statewide assessment. Good curriculum is very closely aligned to standards. While standards are statewide to ensure the same learning expectations, curriculum can be a district, school, or even classroom choice. Curriculum is a general term that includes all the learning materials and learning strategies used to support student achievement of the standards. While we have the same standards or expectations for student achievement, schools and even classroom in schools can use many different curricula resources to help students learn.
The term standard is different than the term curriculum.
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