4th Grade

What We Are Learning: April 2024

READING: 4th grade readers will be working on reading and annotating a variety of fiction and non-fiction texts, as well as answering text-dependent questions and explaining/defending their responses.

WRITING: Our budding writers will work on answering text-dependent questions in paragraph and essay form.

MATH: Young mathematicians will be working on measurement, including calculating area and perimeter. They will also work on showing their work clearly and test-taking strategies for math.

SOCIAL STUDIES: 4th grade historians will study colonial times and the causes of the American Revolution.

ART: This month 4th graders are finishing up their realistic still life drawings. Students are learning to use shape, size, overlapping and values to create a realistic looking object.

PHYSICAL EDUCATION: 4th graders will be finishing the state mandated FitnessGram testing. Reports will be available on their schools account at the end of the year. Students will also begin practicing all soccer related skills such as dribbling with their feet, passing, kicking for power and accuracy. Additionally, they will be playing a variety of modified small sided soccer games.

TECHNOLOGY: Our tech-savvy 4th graders will be finishing up their unit about typing. Students will produce their own piece of writing typed in class.

  • Students working collaboratively on a chart
  • Students working through a problem together
  • Students using playing cards to understand place value
  • Students creating numbers using playing cards
  • Students writing
  • Students raising their hands
  • Students reading
  • Students in music class
  • Students sitting at their desks working on a math activity
  • Students collaborating on a math activity
  • Students working on a collaborative math activity
  • Student with Haudenosaunee and Lenape Village Model Exhibit
  • Female student with Haudenosaunee and Lenape Village Model Exhibit
  • 4th grade students collaborating on classwork
  • Green team students

Important Dates

  • Monday 4/1: Easter Monday - No School

  • Thursday 4/4: Class 409's trip to Colonial Dames

  • Friday 4/5: Family Classroom Visits @ 8:30 am

  • Monday 4/10: Eid al-Fitr - No School

  • Thursday 4/11: PA Meeting @ 6pm

  • Thursday 4/11 & Friday 4/12: NYS ELA Test

  • Tuesday 4/16: Class 410's trip to Colonial Dames

  • Wednesday 4/17: Class 408's trip to Colonial Dames

  • Monday 4/22 - Tuesday 4/30: Passover + Spring Break No School

Home Connection

  • Remind: Please download the Remind app and check regularly for messages from the school and teachers.

  • Communication Folders: Check communication folders daily for flyers, as well as forms to complete and return.

  • Homework: Homework is assigned each Monday and collected the following Monday, but we check daily, so please remind your child to put their packet back in the communication folder each evening.

Contact Your Teacher

4-408: Ms. Keeley tkeeley@ps343.org Text Ms. Keeley

4-408: Ms. Ciuca eciuca@ps343.org Text Ms. Ciuca

4-409: Mr. Poli cpoli@ps343.org Text Mr. Poli

4-410: Ms. Ballah-Lewis kballahlewis@ps343.org Text Ms. Ballah-Lewis

B-302 Mr. Grover's Class