DJ Bakie School is an Everyday Math school. Students use their EDM workbooks as a guide to help them learn fourth grade standards such as those that involve fractions, long division, multiplication and geometry.
The fourth grade team does test corrections after each assessment to allow students to learn and grow from their mistakes.
In 4F, students will complete many art activities to help them understand tricky math concepts like factors and multiples, partial product multiplication and fractions.
Literacy
4F practices a guided reading approach to literacy. Students are grouped into small groups based on reading level and goals. Students use challenging novels, short reads, non-fiction texts, poems, and magazines with their teacher to help them work on skills and areas of need of improvement.
When students are not meeting with their teacher, they may be working on an independent practice activity that relates to what they are learning about in class or in small groups.
A part of fourth grade literacy is WIN, or what I need. This is our tier-two time in which students in enrichment or students requiring extra support in reading can get more differentiated instruction.
Writing
4F uses Lucy Calkins as a guide to writing curriculum.
In addition to narratives, opinion pieces, and persuasive essays, students in 4F write many other creative writing stories and poems.
Thanks to our 1-to-1 Chromebooks, students are constantly writing outside of formal reading time! Outside of formal writing time, students are constantly writing about what they have read, typing science reports and writing non-fiction research essays.
Science
Daniel J. Bakie has adopted NGSS.
Our topics of study include erosion, layers of the earth, plant and animal structures, waves, energy and STEAM.
Social Studies
A main focus in fourth grade is New Hampshire.
Students learn about New Hampshire government, history, geography and native Americans.
CARES
Although not a formal subject, CARES is embedded into 4F's daily schedule.
Students in 4F keep CARES journals to help them learn and think "outside the box" about social stories involving cooperation, assertion, responsibility, empathy and self-control.