Fourth Grade Department

Fourth Grade Department

The Middle School

EDUCATIONAL TARGET SHEET FOR OCTOBER 2012

Dear Parents,

These are the content standard skills we will focus on for the month of October in Sixth grade. Please, work with your child by reviewing class work as well as homework. Together, we can and will make a difference in your child’s life. Thank you for your cooperation.

Social Studies

  • The Emergence of Permanent Human Settlements
  • River Valley Civilizations
  • Mesopotamia (Tigris and Euphrates River Valleys)
  • Ancient Egypt
  • Indus River Valley
  • Huang River Valley

Math

  • Decimals1
  • Add, subtract, estimate, multiply, and divide
  • Decimals 2
  • Estimate quotients
  • Divide Decimals

Distributive property

Exponential forms

Percent of a whole number

  • Algebra 1
  • Order of operations

Science

  • Material and Processes that shape the Earth
  • Rock Cycle
  • Earth History
  • Formation of sedimentary rock from new land surfaces and mountains
  • Evidence of changing life form from fossils in sedimentary rock layers
  • Evolutionary changes in organisms from fossil records.

English Language Arts / French Language Arts / Chinese Language Arts

  • Pronouns/relative/demonstrative/person/number/case
  • Antecedent agreement
  • Reading strategies
  • Predictions
  • Personal Connections
  • Inferences
  • Narrative Story elements
  • Characterization/growth/ Motivation/Point of View
  • Vocabulary Building
  • Composing a personal narrative
  • Writing Activity/personal narrative
  • Selected readings from text demonstrating personal narrative
  • Roots/Prefixes and Suffixes
  • Drama and connection to the elements of plot
  • Informational Text
  • Primary Sources
  • Tradebooks
  • Textbooks
  • Biographies
  • Historical Fiction
  • Text Structure: Chronological/Main Idea/Cause and Effect
  • Weekly spelling tests to build vocabulary
  • Narrative Poetry

Approved by: ______

The Middle School

EDUCATIONAL TARGET SHEET FOR OCTOBER 2012

Dear Parents,

These are the content standard skills we will focus on for the month of October in Seventh grade. Please, work with your child by reviewing class work as well as homework. Together, we can and will make a difference in your child’s life. Thank you for your cooperation.

Social Studies

  • Physical Geography
  • Hemispheres, Continents and Oceans
  • Introduction to Thematic Maps
  • The Physical Geography of N. America
  • The Physical . The Physical Geography of Europe and Russia
  • Geography of Latin America
  • The Physical Geography of Africa
  • The Physical Geography of Southwest Asia

Math

  • Integers
  • Integer concepts
  • Add integers
  • Subtract integers
  • Multiple and divide integers
  • Exponents
  • Powers and squares
  • Exponential notation
  • Laws of exponents
  • properties

Science

  • Introduction to Cells
  • Microscopy
  • Cell organelles
  • Cell Division (introductory)
  • Compare multicellular and unicellular organisms
  • reproduction

English Language Arts / French Language Arts / Chinese Language Arts

  • Pronouns/relative/demonstrative/person/number/case
  • Antecedent agreement
  • Reading strategies
  • Predictions
  • Personal Connections
  • Inferences
  • Narrative Story elements
  • Characterization/growth/ Motivation/Point of View
  • Vocabulary Building
  • Composing a personal narrative
  • Writing Activity/personal narrative
  • Selected readings from text demonstrating personal narrative
  • Roots/Prefixes and Suffixes
  • Drama and connection to the elements of plot
  • Informational Text
  • Primary Sources
  • Tradebooks
  • Textbooks
  • Biographies
  • Historical Fiction
  • Text Structure: Chronological/Main Idea/Cause and Effect
  • Weekly spelling tests to build vocabulary
  • Narrative Poetry

Approved by: ______

The Middle School

EDUCATIONAL TARGET SHEET FOR OCTOBER 2012

Dear Parents,

These are the content standard skills we will focus on for the month of October in Eighth grade. Please, work with your child by reviewing class work as well as homework. Together, we can and will make a difference in your child’s life. Thank you for your cooperation.

Social Studies

  • The American Revolution (1607-1783)
  • Colonial America (1607-1754 )
  • The Founding of Tensions
  • Escalation of Tensions (1754-1775
  • American Colonies
  • The Colonies Declare Independence
  • The Revolutionary War

Math

  • Integers
  • Integer concepts
  • Add integers
  • Subtract integers
  • Multiple and divide integers
  • Arithmetic and Geometric Sequences
  • Order of Operations

Science

  • Newton’s Second and Third Laws of Motion.
  • Energy
  • Potential and Kinetic energies
  • Energy transformations
  • Electricity and Magnetism
  • Various energy sources

English Language Arts / French Language Arts / Chinese Language Arts

  • Pronouns/relative/demonstrative/person/number/case
  • Antecedent agreement
  • Reading strategies
  • Predictions
  • Personal Connections
  • Inferences
  • Narrative Story elements
  • Characterization/growth/ Motivation/Point of View
  • Vocabulary Building
  • Composing a personal narrative
  • Writing Activity/personal narrative
  • Selected readings from text demonstrating personal narrative
  • Roots/Prefixes and Suffixes
  • Drama and connection to the elements of plot
  • Informational Text
  • Primary Sources
  • Tradebooks
  • Textbooks
  • Biographies
  • Historical Fiction
  • Text Structure: Chronological/Main Idea/Cause and Effect
  • Weekly spelling tests to build vocabulary
  • Narrative Poetry

Approved by: ______

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