Fourth Grade 1st Quarter I Can Statements

Reading

I can describe the thoughts, words and actions of the main character

with other characters.

I can compare and contrast two characters using a graphic organizer.

I can write the importance of the setting.

I can write the main events of the plot in sequence.

I can identify the author's feelings, attitude, and purpose in fiction

and nonfiction selections.

I can identify the main idea and three supporting details in fiction

and nonfiction selections.

Writing

I can write a letter with the date, salutation, body, closing and signature.

I can write a journal entry for a given purpose (informal).

I can write a personal narrative with an introductory paragraph, body, solution,

and closing.

I can identify ten nouns and verbs in a paragraph.

I can identify ten synonyms and antonyms.

I can use commas in a series and in an appositive.

I can correctly use capital letters.

I can use a word web to organize my ideas for writing a paragraph.

I can write a paragraph and identify the main idea by highlighting if when I

am done.

Math

I can identify and label points, line segments, lines and rays.

I can identify and construct angles.

I can draw and identify parallel lines.

I can identify intersecting lines.

I can correctly compute 30 addition and subtraction facts in 2 minutes.

I can correctly compute ten 2- and 3- column addition problems with regrouping.

I can read, write, and identify whole numbers up to the hundred-millions.

I can create a plan for collecting data for a specific purpose.

I can create tables, bar graphs and charts.

I can problem-solve using correct math vocabulary.

Science

I can explain that air surrounds us, takes up space, moves around us as wind,

and can be measured using barometric pressure.

I can identify how water exists in the air in different forms.

I can investigate how water changes from one state to another.

I can describe weather by measurable quantities such as temperature,

wind direction, wind speed, precipitation and barometric pressure.

I can record local weather information on a calendar or map and describe

changes over time.

I can trace how weather patterns generally move from west to east in the

United States.

I can describe the weather which accompanies cumulus, cumulonimbus, cirrus

and stratus clouds.

I can describe how wind, water and ice shape and reshape Earth's land surface.

I can identify and describe how freezing, thawing and plant growth reshape the

land surface.

I can describe evidence of changes on Earth's surface.

Social Studies

I can construct, read and interpret a time line.

I can use cardinal and intermediate directions to describe a location.

I can identify the location of major physical features for Ohio.

I can use a linear scale to measure the distance between places on a map.

I can identify the continents, oceans and hemispheres of the world.

I can describe the earliest settlements in Ohio.