IQRA BILINGUAL ACADEMY
GRADE 4
MIDTERM STUDY GUIDE
Mme ZamZam
JANUARY 2014
Subjects: Mathematics, Social Studies, ESL, Science.
Dear Parents,
Midterm Exams will start Tuesday February 25, 2014 inshaAllah.
You can support your child through the stress of revision by doing the following things:
1. Working out a revision timetable for each subject.
2. Breaking revision time into small chunks.
3. Making sure your child has all the books, materials and handouts that were given throughout the year.
4. Using index cards to act as revision prompts.
5. Buying new stationery, highlighters and pens to make revision more interesting.
6. Going through school notes with your child or listen while they revise a topic.
7. Making sure that your child has done all the questions found on this Study Guide.
8. Making sure that your child eats and sleeps well before and during the exam period.
9. Contacting your child’s teachers if you have any questions or concerns.
The exams will be in English. Students can answer in either French or English.
We will be reviewing in class the questions on this guide. Most exam questions will come from this guide.
For any questions or concerns, feel free to contact me!
Chers parents,
Les examens à mi-parcours (Midterm exams) débuteront février 29, 2014 inshaAllah.
Vous pouvez soutenir votre enfant en faisant les choses suivantes:
1. L'élaboration d'un calendrier de révision.
2. Briser le temps de révision en petits morceaux.
3. S'assurer que votre enfant a tous les livres et les documents qui lui ont été remis tout au long de l'année.
4. Utiliser des fiches de révision.
5. Acheter de nouveaux papeterie, surligneurs et stylos pour que la révision soit plus intéressante.
6. Ecouter votre enfant quand il révise ses notes.
7. Assurer que votre enfant a répondu a toutes les questions dans ce guide.
8. Assurer que votre enfant mange et dort bien avant et pendant la période des examens.
9. Communiquer avec les enseignants de votre enfant si vous avez des questions ou des préoccupations.
Les questions d’examen seront en anglais. Les élèves peuvent répondre soit en anglais ou en français.
Les questions d’examen seront tirées de ce guide de révision à l’exception de l’examen de mathématiques.
Pour en savoir plus, n’hésitez pas à me contacter le plus tôt possible !
Mathematics / Mathématiques
Students have received a Harcourt practice workbook.
Each day, students should review at least 2 pages from the workbook. We will be reviewing the answers starting Mon Feb 3, 2014 inshaAllah. To review, students must re attempt all of the questions. It is not enough just to look at the problems!
In addition, students should review the lessons before attempting to answer any questions. Definitions must be learnt!
Please also use the web links given to also prepare for the exam. This test is comparable to what a 4th grader should be able to do by the end of the year. I encourage the students to use this resource as well to help them with their revisions.
Math Mammoth Grade 4 end of year test
http://www.mathmammoth.com/preview/tests/End_of_Year_Test_Grade4.pdf
Math Mammoth Grade 4 end of year ANSWER KEY
http://www.mathmammoth.com/preview/tests/End_of_Year_Test_Grade4_Answers.pdf
Les élèves ont déjà reçu leurs cahiers d’exercices la semaine du 7 janvier 2014. Pour bien réviser pour cet examen, les élèves sont encourages à relire les leçons et apprendre tous les définitions d’abord. Ensuite, ils doivent reprendre non seulement les exercices dans leur cahier de mathématiques, mais également ceux qui se trouvent dans le practice workbook.
Nous allons revoir quelques questions phares de chaque leçon inshaAllah commençant le 3 février 2014.
Vous pouvez utiliser les liens ci-dessus pour aider avec les révisions de mathématiques. Ce test donne un très bon aperçu sur ce que l’élève doit être capable a faire maintenant et a la fin de l’année inshaAllah.
Math Mammoth Grade 4 end of year test
Trouvez les reponses ici:
Math Mammoth Grade 4 end of year test ANSWER KEY
http://www.mathmammoth.com/preview/tests/End_of_Year_Test_Grade4_Answers.pdf
Science
Chapter 1: Plant Structure and Function
Determine if the sentence is true (T) or false (F).
1. Plants can be classified into 2 large groups. _________
2. There are plants that make seeds and plants that do not make seeds.____
3. Flowering plants make seeds.________
4. Conifers make seeds._________
5. Plants that do not make seeds reproduce by making spores.________
6. Ferns do not make seeds.________
7. Mosses do not make seeds._________
8. A flower has four main parts. ________
9. The main parts of a flower are the sepals, petals, pistil and stamens_____
10. Each part of the flower has a role in helping the flower make seeds._______
11. Some flowers have fewer than four parts but can still make seeds.______
12. Pollination occurs when pollen from a stamen is moved to a pistil.______
13. Sperm in the pollen combines with an egg during fertilization to form a seed._______
14. Fruits grow from the ovary of the pistil.__________
15. Seeds form inside the fruit.___________
16. Seeds grow into plants.________
17. Plants need oxygen, water and sunlight to grow.________
18. The full grown plant that produces seeds is the mature stage of a flowering plant’s life cycle.________
Write the word or phrase that best completes each sentence.
Classify, conifer, dicot seed, dormant, embryo, fertilization, monocot seed, ovary, ovule, pollen, pollination, reproduce, sepal, spore, and stamen.
1. To ________ means to make more plants of the same kind.
2. Scientists _______________ plants into two groups.
3. A pine tree is a ______________ because it makes seeds inside the cone.
4. A bean seed is a _______________ because it has two seed leaves.
5. A ____________________ is a tiny cell that can grow into a new plant.
6. One of the leaf like parts that protect a flower bud is a ______________.
7. A ____________ is a part of a flower that makes pollen.
8. Seeds are made when sperm in tiny grains of _________________ combined with a flower’s eggs.
9. The part of the flower that makes eggs is the ___________________.
10. The movement of pollen from a stamen to a pistil is _________________.
11. The ________________ is the part of the pistil that grows when seeds form.
12. An _________________ is the inner part of the ovary that contains eggs.
13. Combining sperm and an egg to make seeds is ____________________.
14. The part of a seed that can grow into a new plant is ______________.
15. A seed can be in a resting stage, or _______________________, for years.
Critical Thinking
List the following words in sequence starting from the word flower:
Germinate, fertilization, pollination, seeds, flower, new plant
You plant some flower seeds. You observe that the seeds did not germinate. What would you infer may have caused the seeds not to germinate?
Minerals, Rocks and Soil
1. What are the 3 different categories of rocks? Quelles sont les 3 types de roches?
2. Magma can produce 2 types of rocks. Which ones? Le magma produit 2 types de roches. Lesquelles?
3. Give 2 examples of sedimentary rock. Donnez 2 exemples des roches sédimentaires.
4. What does morph mean? Morph signifie quoi?
5. Marble is rock changed from which rock? Slate is a rock changed from which rock? Le marbre est une roche transformée qui était d'abord quelle roche? Slate est également une roche transformée de quelle roche?
6. Draw the rock cycle. Dessiner the rock cycle.
7. Give 5 examples of what to can do to save or protect our natural resources.
Science A-Z Unit Test (to include in the printed version)
Animal Structure and adaptation
1. What are behavioural adaptations?
2. What are structural adaptations?
3. How does the variation among individuals affect their survival?
4. How do the structures and functions of living things allow them to meet their needs?
Life cycles
1. Draw and label the life cycle of a butterfly and a frog.
2. What physical changes must occur in order for an organism to be able to move to a different part of the habitat and begin eating different things?
3. How are the life cycles of the three organisms similar? How are they different from one another?
5. Why do you think the developmental stages of an organism are arranged in a circle?
6. Which stages of frog or insect development might correspond to the child, teenage, and adult stages in the human life cycle?
7. How does the development of frogs and insects differ from that of humans and animals like dogs, cats, and pigs?
Social Studies
Peace and Conflict
1. Alioune and Malick are working in a team solving Math problems. Malick has been constantly writing down the wrong answers. When Alioune tells Malick the right answer, Malick doesn’t listen to him.
How would you solve the problem between Alioune and Malick?
2. Coura found 100f on a table. There was no one in the room, so she took the 100f and bought some Biskrem. Karima came back in the room looking for the 100f that she lost. Coura told Karima that she found 100f, but she already spent it on Biskrem. Karima becomes angry and no longer speaks to Coura.
How would you solve this conflict?
3. Amina brings a hamburger to school each day. Awa asks her each day to give her the hamburger. Amina is afraid to refuse because Awa has threatened her that if she doesn’t give her the hamburger, she will no longer be her friend.
How would you solve this conflict?
Conflict resolution tools
The entire class is doing art work. Everyone must share the crayons as there is not enough. Every time Dauda uses a crayon, he puts it in his desk, so that he can use it when he needs it afterwards. When someone asks for that colour, Dauda refuses to lend it.
Put a Y (yes) on tools that will solve the conflict and N (no) on tools that will not solve the conflict or increase the conflict.
4. Cheikh asks Dauda to share the crayons.__________
5. Fatima takes all the crayons from Dauda’s desk._________
6. The students keep all the crayons on one side of the table.___________
7. The students give Dauda 3 colours to use only._________
8. Mme ZamZam asks Dauda to be considerate and share._________
9. Mrs Gaye talks to Dauda about thoughtfulness and sharing in Islam._________
10. The next art class, Dauda will not be allowed to participate._________
11. All students will bring their own crayons next class._______
12. If Dauda forgets to bring his crayons the next art class, no one will share with him.__________
Treaties and Conventions
1. What are treaties?
2. Which parties were involved in the treaty of Hudaybiyah?
3. What were the terms of the treaty of Hudaybiyah?
4. Why was this treaty important in Islam?
Migration
Complete the questions 1 and 2 with the following words: immigrated, immigrant, emigrant, emigrated. Some words may be used more than once.
1. Fatima and family moved from Senegal to Mali. Fatima is an _____________________ in Mali. Fatima and her family _________________________ from Senegal.
2. Cheikh and his family are from the USA. They came to Senegal to work, and then returned to the USA 3 years later. Cheikh is an __________________________ in Senegal. Cheikh and his family ____________________________ from the USA.
3. What are the five main reasons that people migrate?
4. What are some positive things that migration brings with it to the host country?
5. What are some negative things that migration brings with it to the host country?
6. Give the name of one famous immigrant and the contribution that he made.
Map and Globe skills
Students are asked to look at the handouts/ map work that was given and done in class. Similar questions will be asked including:
1. Distance
2. Cardinal directions
3. Intermediate directions
4. Latitude
5. Longitude
6. Parallels and meridians
7. Locating places
English Second Language (ESL)
for Amina, Cheikh, Maryam, Mame Anta, Awa, Coura, Karima, Alioune
Spelling Words
About angry any asked
balloon before because birds birthday bike behind basket blow breakfast boxes bright bowl body can’t climb caught close cries colour crawl count crazy doesn’t did die dinner don’t draw drink early everyone ears everything face far falling forgot friend finger half happen guess heart hear heavy I’ll I’m I’ve isn’t it’s have key kick knee knock maybe more morning mouth Monday money near never none oil once outside paint other own pay picked pink prize penny piece river roll running raised road rule Saturday second same sent school send shelf sky something someone smiling straight street strong Sunday these threw Thursday teacher today throw that’s true together Tuesday until we’ll Wednesday while window walk without wrote write word without yard wrong year your you’re
You will have 20 words on the spelling test.
Reading Comprehension
Use the following websites to read the stories! Each story is followed by questions. Answer all of the questions.
1. Bella Hides
http://www.englishforeveryone.org/PDFs/Bella_Hides.pdf
2. Rainy Day
3. The Drive
http://www.englishforeveryone.org/PDFs/The_Drive.pdf
4. One hundred dollars
http://www.englishforeveryone.org/PDFs/One_Hundred_Dollars.pdf
Phonetics
You will be asked to pronounce 20 words. Look at your word lists (short a/ long a, short e/long i, short i/ long i sounds and double vowel sounds and vocabulary words from each lesson).
Writing production
1. Write a story (at least 10 sentences) about things that you don’t like and why.
2. Write a story about your best friend. (at least 10 sentences).
3. Write a story about your last vacation. (at least 10 sentences)
Listening Comprehension
These websites will help you with your listening skills.
Click on the play button to listen, and answer the 5 multiple choice questions at the end of each exercise. You have 3 stories to listen to!
You will also have to fill in the blanks of certain missing words.
We will be listening to these stories in class. However, you need to practice!
1. A Fun Day
2. A Day at school
3. Snack Time!
Listening Comprehension (example)
Snack Time!
Fill in the blanks with the missing words.
Son: Dad!Father: Yeah, Micky.
Son: Can I have a really good (1)?
Father: Uh, I don't know. I thinks it's . . . uh . . . what time is it? I think it's going on dinner.
Son: Uh, it's three thirty.
Father: Three thirty. Uh . . . We'd better (2). [Why, Dad?] Well, what kind of snack do you want?
Son: Candy?
Father: No, candy is out. Oh, how about some (3)? [No!] Uh, carrots? [No!] Well, what else can you suggest?
Son: Candy.
Father: Candy. No, I don't think . . . I think You'd better wait.
Son: A sandwich? A spinach sandwich?
Father: Spinach sandwich? Spinach sandwich! When did you (4) liking spinach?
Son: Uh, today.
Father: Well, what about a small sandwich? [Okay] Okay, I'll (5) it up in a minute. Play with your toys while you're waiting for it.
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