4th Grade Curriculum

Religion

• Study the Beatitudes.
• Learn and understand the 10 commandments.
• Understand how Christianity is a way of life.
• Understand your relationship to Church through community.
• Learn and be able to use different forms of prayer.
  Celebrate our faith with the school and church communities.
• Learn how to read the Bible.

Language Arts

• Increase your vocabulary and reading rate in all subject areas.
• Read for meaning (main idea, cause and effect, details, summarization) and aloud.
• Write quality paragraphs, expressive poems and stories.
• Orally ask and answer questions, and present an organized group report using note cards.
• Write a research paper using notes and following an outline.

Math

• Read, write, and estimate whole numbers through nine digits and decimals to thousandths.Round four-digit numbers to the nearest thousand and estimate sums and differences.
• Add and subtract whole numbers to seven places.
  Know multiplication and division facts.
• Multiply using one- and two-digit multipliers and divide four-digit dividends by a one-digit divisor.
• Relate to parts of a whole using fractions, decimals and percent.
• Understand and apply +, - to decimals to thousandths.
  Recognize, identify, and classify various geometric terms and shapes.
• Work with metric units.
  Compare and order integers.
• Estimate and calculate averages and percentages and know about ratios.
  Use mathematical skills to solve number problems.

Science

• Describe plants and their processes.
• Work in school gardens,
  Research & report information about vertebrates.
• Describe the characteristics of light, sound, heat and electricity.
• Understand major human body systems:  digestive, circulatory,  nervous body systems.
• Participate in an animal feeding project to teach nutritional information and eating habits.         

Social Studies

• Develop a visual sense of our world.
• Give examples of how living in a geographical region affects how people live.
• Describe how people are dependent on one another for goods and services.
• Examine the people and heritage of each region of the U.S.
• Learn what it means to be an American.
• Learn how history affects a region.

Technology

• Demonstrate proper use of the keyboard.
• Understand basic computer operations.
• Use a word processing program.
• Show proper and safe use of hardware and software.
• Introduce Power Point.
• Be able to use a computer as an educational tool to learn and share information.

Art

• Use the elements of art, especially point, space, and form to create art and objects.
• Use the principles of art, especially emphasis, to make art and objects.
• Use a wide variety of art materials, especially molding and carving materials and simple forms of printing to create art and useful things to decorate.
• Appreciate and know about art made by other cultures and by two or three major artists chosen for status and to be multi-culture/gender fair.

Music

• Understand dynamic contrast.
• Understand timbre in instruments and voices.
• Understand key tonal center and the treble and bass clefs and be able to play the recorder.
• Understand the basic notes and the basic elements of tempo.
• Understand musical phrase form.
• Be able to make harmony using different methods.
  Understand some styles of music and how they originate.
• Be able to take care of equipment, be a good audience, and be a good group member.