Rainbow Montessori 9-12 Year Scope & Sequence

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2	4th Grade Scope & Sequence 2024 - 2025 School Year
3	Year 4	Language	Writing	Mathematics	Science	CA History	Functional Geography

4	September	Assessments in Grammar, Mechanics, Vocabulary and Reading Comprehension. Grammar Review - Articles, Adjectives and Nouns Types of Compound Words Vocabulary Development Word Recognition Syllables Weekly Vocab. Lists Read with Fluency	Writing Assessments Connecting Reading and Writing The Writing Process Prewriting, Drafting and Revising Narrative Forms Journal Writing Cursive Writing	Assessments Speed Facts, 4 Operations, Place Value Expanded form – Multiplications, Factors and products, multiplication 2 digits, 3 digits. Zeros in multiplier Workbook followup work	Great Lessons Great Lessons Engineering and Technology Technology’s impact	California’s Natural Environment – California’s Geography. Landforms, regions, climate, vegetation Followup work	Creation of the Universe Coming of Life TimeLine of Life Latitude and Longitude grid Globe and map skills
5	October Emergency Prepardness	Types of Nouns Types of Sentences Vocabulary Development Synonyms and Antonyms Weekly Vocab. Lists Types of Sentences Reading Word Recognition	The Writing Process Proofreading - Peer Editing and Publishing Narrative Writing - Short Story Audience and Purpose Sequence and Setting Using Concrete Sensory Details Journal Writing Cursive Writing	Multiplication with money Roman Numerals Continue Place value Short and long divisions Division patterns Zero in Quotient Fraction sense GCF, LCM Mixed numbers Workbook followup work	Earth Science-Changes to Earth’s Surface Shaping Landforms	California Indians- Pre Columbian to Mexican Rancho Period – Spanish explorers Followup work	Great Lessons Creation Stories Black Strip & Clock of Eras The land and early people
6	November	Verbs- Main Verbs and Auxiliary Verbs Simple Past, Present and Future Tenses Vocabulary Development Word Origins - Affixes Weekly Vocab. Lists Reading Read with Fluency, Expression and Confidence	Oral Reporting of Personal Narratives Patterned Poems Journal Writing Figurative Language	– Division patterns, exploring divisibility, order of operations. Reciprocal. Multiplying fractions, dividing fractions. – comparing and ordering fractions. Prime and composite numbers Workbook followup work	Rocks and Minerals Natural Resources	Ca Missions–Environment and Economy – Spanish influence – Gold rush, California early events of statehood. Follow up work	Timeline of Humans Hunter/Gatherer to Agriculture Fundamental Needs of Humans Lasting effects of Pony Express
7	December	Verb- Subject/Verb Agreement Principal parts of Verbs Vocabulary Development Homographs, Homophones and Homonyms Reading Comprehension Facts and Opinion Elaboration	How-to Paragraph Sequential or Chronological Order Figurative Language	Multiple, LCM, LCD, factorization – Unlike fractions, mixed fractions, renaming fractions, Workbook followup work	Earthquake Engineering	– California as a growing state, Growing population ,Transportation, and immigrants. Dust Bowl impact Followup work	The Early People Timeline -History Overview Agricultural and industrial power
8	January	Adverb Types of Adverbs Adverb Phrases Reading Comprehension Inferential Comprehension Weekly Vocab Lists Vocab. Workshop	Expository Writing Multiple Paragraph Compositions Figurative Language	– multiplying and dividing fractions – probability and statistics Signed Numbers Mean. Median, Mode Collecting and organizing data, graphing sense Workbook followup work	Energy and motion	Literacy Support for California Indians – Events after World War 2 and difficulties of the 20th century. Followup work	World Holidays: Maps, Flags, Longitude, Latitude, Navigation
9	February	Types of Pronouns Pronoun and Antecedent Reading Comprehension Author’s Purpose Weekly Vocab. Lists Vocab Workshop	Research Report Quote and Paraphrase Information Sources, Citing them Appropriately Figurative Language	– add, subtract, divide, multiply decimals. - estimate decimal products. Zero in division and multiplication. Workbook followup work	Renewable Energy	California’s Diverse Population Water and industrial Growth – California in the modern era. Followup work	Atmosphere and its phenomena Weather
10	March	Prepositions Prepositional Phrases Reading Comprehension Weekly Vocab. Lists Vocab Workshop	Persuasive Essays Position and Argument	– Geometry Identifying and measuring angles. Triangles, Quadrilaterals, Polygons, Circles Perimeter, Circumference, area Line of symmetry and transformation Workbook followup work	Energy and Matter in Ecosystem	– California’s people and its government. Education system Followup work	Work of the Wind Erosion/Weathering
11	April Eco-Awareness	Types of Conjunctions The Interjection Reading Comprehension Weekly Vocab. Lists Vocab. Workshop	Types of Poems	Study of a Mathematician – Units of measurement, temperatures, units of time, time zones. – metric measurements, line plots, cubic measure, area of triangle, rectangle, parallelogram. Volume. Workbook followup work	Plant and Animal structure and function	Discovery of Gold Followup work	Work of Water Water Cycle
12	May	Overall Review and Final Tests	News Article	– Ratio, proportion and percentage – Concepts in Algebra, algebraic expressions. Integers, Coordinate plane. Workbook followup work	Plant and animal structure and function	Native American Systems of Government Followup work	Review
13	June	Overall Review and Final Tests	News Article	– Ratio, proportion and percentage – Concepts in Algebra, algebraic expressions. Integers, Coordinate plane. Workbook followup work	Plant and animal structure and function	Native American Systems of Government Followup work	Review
14	July & August (Non-Academic)	Summer Curriculum (theme to be announced)	Summer Curriculum (theme to be announced)	Summer Curriculum (theme to be announced)	Summer Curriculum (theme to be announced)	Summer Curriculum (theme to be announced)	Summer Curriculum (theme to be announced)
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