Daily Schedule

8:25-8:50 Class Meeting

8:50-9:15 Reading Core

9:15-10:00 Specials

10:00-10:40 Reading Core

10:40-11:10 Writing

11:10-12:25 Math

12:25-1:10 Recess and Lunch

1:10-2:00 Writing

2:00-3:00 Reading Groups

3:00-3:20 Reading Skills

3:25 Dismissal

Reading and Writing

4th grade students receive literacy instruction using the CKLA Amplify curriculum. CKLA Reading Knowledge is taught as ​whole group lessons. Students engage with a text as collaborative learners to deepen their vocabulary and develop comprehension skills. Students also develop writing skills through explicit instruction of grammar and the writing process with a variety of writing genres to include personal narratives, creative stories, poems, descriptive paragraphs and research essays.

Units of study:

  • Personal Narratives

  • Empires of the Middle Ages

  • Poetry

  • Novel Study - The Season of Styx Malone

  • Geology

  • Colorado History

  • American Revolution

  • Treasure Island

  • Eureka! Student Inventor

Supplemental Responsive Instruction & Skills-

During this time students have an opportunity to learn in a small group setting. Students are given individualized small group instruction that is rooted in the Science of Reading with a focus on comprehension and vocabulary for fluent readers. This time allows teachers to meet the students where they are at, and provide specialized reading instruction to advance the reading skills of all students.

Math

Through our Eureka Math Squared curriculum students will engage in a daily warm-up, whole group and/or small group instruction, and independent practice time.  Once students have completed their math work for the day they will have the opportunity to play math games, which are meant to provide further hands-on practice or complete a challenge sheet. Homework and video help are available to support students with math practice of each math module.

  • Module 1: Place Value Concepts for Addition and Subtraction

  • Module 2: Place Value Concepts for Multiplication and Division

  • Module 3: Multiplication and Division of Multi-Digit Numbers 6

  • Module 4: Foundations for Fraction Operations

  • Module 5: Place Value Concepts for Decimal Fractions

  • Module 6: Angle Measurements and Plane Figures 4 Topics |

Social Studies

4th grade students learn all about Colorado during social studies. Students engage in the study of perspectives on Colorado History by examining many primary source documents that connect to various perspectives on the history of Colorado from those of Native Americans, Explorers, Fur Trappers, Prospectors and Miners, and Farmers, Ranchers, and Settlers. Additionally, students research significant people in Colorado's history and write their own biographies.

Students develop a deep understanding of Colorado through the following units of study:

  • Colorado History,

  • Colorado Geography,

  • Colorado Government,

  • Colorado Economics

Science

Science curriculum is taught using the Amplify curriculum, as well as, project based learning opportunities. Students engage in the following units:

  • Energy Conversions: Students take on the role of systems engineers for Ergstown, a fictional town that experiences frequent blackouts, and explore the reasons why an electrical system can fail. Students apply what they learn to choosing new energy sources and energy converters for the town, and then they prepare arguments for why their design choices will make the town’s electrical system more reliable.

  • Vision and Light: Working as conservation biologists, students figure out why a population of Tokay geckos has decreased since the installation of new highway lights in the rain forest. Students use their understanding of vision, light, and information processing to figure out why an increase in light in the geckos’ habitat is affecting the population. Then students turn their attention to humans by designing their own investigations in order to learn more about how our senses help us survive.

  • Earth's Features: Playing the role of geologists, students help the director of Desert Rocks National Park explain how and when a particular fossil formed and how it came to be in its current location. Students figure out what the environment of the park was like in the past and why it has so many visible rock layers.

  • Waves, Energy and Information: Working in their role as marine scientists, students figure out how mother dolphins communicate with their calves. They write a series of scientific explanations with diagrams to demonstrate their growing understanding of how sound waves travel. Then they apply what they’ve learned about waves, energy, and patterns in communication to figure out how to create patterns that can communicate information over distances, transferring data from one place to another.