4th Grade Learning Goals

  • Webster Groves School District Progress Reports are designed to monitor and promote the district’s mission of ‘academic and personal success for every student.’  Teachers use a variety of measures to evaluate student progress through the year including class assignments, reading analyses, teacher observations and tests.  This progress report is one of many tools (others include conferences, portfolios, and work sent home) used to communicate information about your child’s academic and personal success.  It will be distributed three times during the school year and will show your child’s performance on the most important strategies and content of his or her grade level.

    LIVING AND WORKING

    • Empathy and care for others.
    • Respect for self and others
    • Accepts responsibility for actions
    • Perseverance with his/her learning
    • Attempts to resolve conflicts in appropriate ways
    • Organizational skills to support learning

    SCIENCE

    Waves and Energy

        1. Waves

    • Students who demonstrate understanding can generate and compare multiple solutions that use patterns to transfer information.
    • Students who demonstrate understanding can develop a model of waves to describe patterns in terms of amplitude and wavelength and that waves can cause objects to move.

         2. Energy

    • Students who demonstrate understanding can use evidence to construct an explanation relating the speed of an object to the energy of that object.
    • Students who demonstrate understanding can make observations to provide evidence that energy can be transferred from place to place by sound, light, heat, and electric currents.
    • Students who demonstrate understanding can ask questions and predict outcomes about the changes in energy that occur when objects collide.
    • Students who demonstrate understanding can apply scientific ideas to design, test, and refine a device that converts energy from one form to another.
    • Students who demonstrate understanding can obtain and combine information to describe that energy and fuels are derived from natural resources and their uses affect the environment.
    • Students who demonstrate understanding can use models to explain that simple machines change the amount of effort and/or direction of force.

     Our Dynamic Earth

    • Students who demonstrate understanding can identify evidence from patterns in rock formations and fossils in rock layers to support an explanation for changes in a landscape over time.
    • Students who demonstrate understanding can make observations and/or measurements to provide evidence of the effects of weathering or the rate of erosion by water, wind, or vegetation.
    • Students who demonstrate understanding can analyze and interpret data from maps to describe patterns of Earth’s features.
    • Students who demonstrate understanding can generate and compare multiple solutions to reduce the impacts of natural Earth processes on humans.

     Survival, Senses, and Adaptations

    • Students who demonstrate understanding can develop a model to describe that light reflecting from objects and entering the eye allows objects to be seen.
    • Students who demonstrate understanding can construct an argument that plants and animals have internal and external structures that function to support survival, growth, behavior, and reproduction.
    • Students who demonstrate understanding can use a model to describe that animals receive different types of information through their senses, process the information in their brain, and respond to the information in different ways.
    • Students who demonstrate understanding can compare and contrast the major organs/organ systems (e.g. support, reproductive, digestive, transport/circulatory, excretory, response) that perform similar functions for animals belonging to different vertebrate classes.

     Engineering

    • Students who demonstrate understanding can define a simple design problem reflecting a need or a want that includes specified criteria for success and constraints on materials, time, or cost.
    • Students who demonstrate understanding can generate and compare multiple possible solutions to a problem based on how well each is likely to meet the criteria and constraints of the problem.
    • Students who demonstrate understanding can plan and carry out fair tests in which variables are controlled and failure points are considered to identify aspects of a model or prototype that can be improved.

    SOCIAL STUDIES

    • Understands their historical roots and locate themselves in time
    • Understands the relationships between human beings and their environment
    • Understands how institutions that affect their lives are created, maintained, and changed
    • Understands how power, authority, and governance function in societies and affect their lives
    • Understands how people organize for the production, distribution, and consumption of goods and services

     ELA

    • Students will be able to read with understanding.
    • Students will be able to analyze what they read.
    • Students will be able to communicate in writing for a variety of purposes and audiences.
    • Students will be able to share their thoughts with others by speaking and listening.
    • Students will be able to acquire, assess and communicate information.

     MATH

    Mathematical Practices:

    • Students will be able to make sense of problems and persevere in solving them.
    • Students will be able to communicate mathematically.

     Content Standards:

    • Students will be able to use the four operations with whole numbers to solve problems.
    • Students will understand factors and multiples.
    • Students will be able to generate and analyze patterns
    • Students will be able to generalize place value understanding to perform multi-digit arithmetic. 
    •  Students will understand fractional values.
    • Students will be able to understand decimal notation for fractions.
    • Students will be able to solve problems involving measurement and conversion of measurements.
    • Students will be able to represent and interpret data.
    • Students will be able to draw and identify lines and angles and classify shapes by properties of their lines and angles.

     VISUAL ARTS

    • Students will be able to create using the elements and principles of art.
    • Students will be able to select and refine artistic works for presentation.
    • Students will be able to observe, interpret and respond critically to a work of art.
    • Students will be able to make artistic connections between themselves and the world.

     PHYSICAL EDUCATION 

    • Students will be able to demonstrate rhythmic routines and patterns using fundamental movement skills.
    • Students will be able to describe basic principles of a healthy lifestyle.
    • Students will be able to perform a variety of manipulative skills.
    • Students will be able to participate in a variety of games while demonstrating cooperation, sportsmanship, and fair play.

     MUSIC

    • Students will be able to create using the elements and principles of music.
    • Students will be able to perform with musical instruments.
    • Students will be able to create and perform rhythm patterns. 
    • Students will be able to use the voice as an instrument.