Fortis Academy 4th grade: April 28 - May 2, 2025

4th Grade Week 324/28/20254/29/20254/30/20255/1/20255/2/2025Co-Teacher Notes
DiscipleshipCHARITY: "If I have the gift of prophecy and understand all mysteries and all knowledge, and if I have all faith so that I can move mountains, but do not have love, I am nothing." 1 Cor. 13:2
BibleTitus 2:11-3:7, Philemon 1:4-7, Hebrews 4:12-16Read Hebrews 11James 1 & 31 Peter 3:8-18
MathCh 17, L3 TB p234-237
&
Year End Review
Complete Year-End Assessment for review and practice.CCC
CLT Math
Complete Review sent homeCo-Teachers, please correct the Year End Assessment and help your student correct any wrong answers. The Answer Key will be emailed to you on Monday.
Spelling
CLT Language Arts
Review phonograms eigh, ei, ey, ph, kn, gn, nk, ough, ew
Review phonograms eigh, ei, ey, ph, kn, gn, nk, ough, ew
GrammarGrammar Book Ch 26 L2 Ref 78B Complete p2 & p6: Goals for My Life and My Special Feelings. You may write in paragraph form, or write two lists using complete sentencesRef 78B Write about your strengths. You may write in paragraph form, or make a list.
(Refer back to Ref. 78A for creative ideas)

WritingRef 79 Part II: Write about your Family Life for your autobiography. Include at least 4 dress-ups, 2 openersRef. 79 Part III Using the outline given, write about your school days. Include at least 4 dress-ups and 2 openers
Reading
Read Ch 11 & 12 and orally narrate.
Read Ch 13 & 14 and orally narrate.
HistoryMao & the Cultural Revolution in ChinaRead p465-468 "The First Persian Gulf War" and orally narrateCollapse of the Soviet Union, Review Key Dates 1-12 & US PresidentsRead 9/11 handout and ask your parents and/or grandparents where they were on 9/11. What are their recollections of that day?Review Key Dates 1-12 for test on Wed

Geography
ScienceBird Reports & Review Texas BirdsColor the Whooping Crane p32, Sandhill Crane p32 & Ruddy Turnstone p33 in your field guideShorebirdsColor the Great Blue Heron p5 in your field guide &
Review
Texas Birds
Memory WorkPOETRY: Poem 4 Due 5/5
KEY DATES: 1-12 on 5/7
HISTORY: US Presidents 1-45 Due 5/12
Coming Soon:
Monday, April 28 - CLT
Wednesday, April 30 - CLT
Saturday, May 3 - Grammar Theater Showcase
Wednesday, May 7 - Pizza Day, DOGS, Spirit Day
Saturday, May 10 - Nerf Tournament
Wednesday, May 14 - Last day of school

Math

Objectives:

1. Review previously learned skills.

2. Assess math skills

3. Name faces and edges of Cuboids


If you'd like to practice math skills over the summer, here is a 4th-grade review website of math skills learned this year: https://www.ixl.com/math/grade-4


Spelling

Objectives: Review phonograms


Grammar

Objective: Assessment


Writing

Objectives:

1. Assess writing skills

2. Write a.paragraph about your family life.

3. Write a paragraph about school for your autobiography.


History 

Objectives:

1. Know that during the Cultural Revolution of 1966-1976, every part of Chinese culture had to praise Mao & his policies.
2. Know that in 1989, thousands of students protested together in Tiananmen Square wanting democracy.
3. Know that the US was attacked by terrorists on Sept. 11, 2001
 
Science
Objectives:
1. Present findings on bird of choice 
2. Identify characteristics of shorebirds
3. Identify Texas birds

Memory Work:  Please spend 15 minutes per day working on the following memory work.

Poetry:  Our fourth quarter poem is "The Dentist and the Crocodile".  Additional copies here.

History: We are memorizing the US Presidents. There are several YouTube video songs to help with this. Here are two: US Presidents: Washington to Trump and an older version, US Presidents to "America" For assessment, students will write or sing all the presidents' first and last names. Due 5/12


Key Dates for 4th quarter:

1. The War Between the States                         1861-1865
2. World War I                                                  1914-1918
3. Lenin & the Russian Revolution                   1917
4. The Great Depression                                  1929-1939
5. World War II                                              1939-1945
6. The Cold War                                              1945-1991
7. The Formation of Israel                            1948
8. Mao & Communist Victory in China          1949
9. Martin Luther King & the Civil Rights Movement  1950-1968
10, Man Walks on the Moon 1969 11. Fall of Communism in Eastern Europe 1989 12. The Collapse of the Soviet Union December 26, 1991