Subject

1st Quarter

2nd Quarter

3rd Quarter

4th Quarter

Reading

SOLs:  4.1, 4.2, 4.3, 4.4, 4.5

Context clues, reference materials, author’s purpose, main idea & details, making inferences, summarizing

SOLs:  4.1, 4.2, 4.3, 4.4, 4.5

Word origins, synonyms, antonyms, homonyms, draw conclusions after reading

SOLs:  4.1, 4.2, 4.3, 4.4, 4.5, 4.6

Historical fiction, sensory words, use text organizers, use resources to collect information

SOLs:  4.1, 4.2, 4.3, 4.4, 4.5, 4.6

Cause and effect, fact and opinion, relationship b/w text and prior knowledge

Writing

SOLs:  4.1, 4.2, 4.7

Focus on a topic, developing a plan for writing

SOLs:  4.1, 4.2, 4.7, 4.8

Write several paragraphs, edit work, noun-pronoun agreement, using commas

SOLs:  4.1, 4.2, 4.7, 4.8

Organize writing, subject-verb agreement, adjectives, adverbs, use of articles

SOLs:  4.1, 4.2, 4.7, 4.8

Style, word choice, sentence variation, poetry, prepositional phrases, double negatives

Math

Science

SOLs:  4.1, 4.7, 4.8

The Scientific investigation, Virginia’s natural resources, Earth-Moon-Sun System

SOLs:  4.1, 4.2, 4.6

Scientific investigation, weather, forces, motion, energy

SOLs:  4.1, 4.3, 4.5

Scientific investigation, electricity, magnetism, ecosystems

SOLs:  4.1, 4.4

Scientific investigation,

 plants

SOLs:  VS.2abcdefg, VS.3abc, VS. 10bc 

Virginia geography, map skills, regions, Virginia Indians, Jamestown

SOLs:  VS 3bcdefg,VS. 4abcde, VS.5a

Jamestown, migration of Europeans, The New Capital, Colonial VA, Pre-Revolution

SOLs:  VS.5abc, VS.6abc, VS.7abc, VS.10a

Revolutionary War, The New Nation, Government Documents, Westward Movement, Civil War and Reconstruction

SOLs: VS.8abc, VS. 9abcd, VS.10c,

Cumulative review Twentieth Century, Virginia Government & Structure, SOL Review, Loudoun County History