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Fourth Grade Curriculum
The Curriculum, as outlined below, represents the goals we have established for our students. It is our expectation that all students will work towards achieving these goals to the best of his/her ability. We offer a student centered learning environment designed to meet individual needs while developing a cooperative community spirit. To enhance their creative frontiers... this is our goal!
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Language Arts/Reading
- Phonics and word study
- Recognizes and uses variant spellings for single consonants including:
- c (s and k)
- s (s and z)
- j (j and g)
- Identifies words using context and knowledge of phonics
- Recognizes syllables, places accent on correct syllable and divides words correctly.
- Phonetically decodes multi-syllable words
- Correctly orders the words in a sentence and identifies incongruities in formation of sentence structure.
- Know meaning of prefixes: ex, pre, un
- Know meaning of suffixes: able, ment, ness, ful
- Comprehension
- Recognizes topic, main idea, details, sequence of events, and variety of meanings from information.
- Predicts the outcome or possible results from detail in story.
- Identifies authors message from a selection and separates opinion from fact.
- Recognizes commonly used foreign words and their meaning.
- Identify simile and metaphor
- Answer questions for a paragraph: who, what, when, where, which, and how
- Study skills
- Utilizes dictionary and encyclopedia to identify meaning or obtain further information on a topic.
- Paraphrases information from technical materials such as encyclopedia and prepares written report.
- Know special features of a dictionary: etymology, pronunciation, parts of speech
- Writing
- Use a uniform size, slant, alignment, and spacing
- Respond to literature
- Reports with bibliography
- Outlining
- Letter writing: business and personal
- Daily Journal
- Speaking: Oral presentations, poetry, and plays
- Listening respectfully when others speak
- Stories and speeches
- A Voyage to Lilliput
- The Tongue Cut Sparrow
- Robinson Crusoe
- On Thin Ice
- The Legend of Sleepy Hollow
- Treasure Island
- Poetry
- Myths from Medieval England
- Learning about Language
- Interjections
- Adverbs
- Prepositions
- Regular and Irregular Verbs
- Colons
- Bibliography
- Italics
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Mathematics
- Numbers and Numeration
- Recognizes place value to hundred million
- Rounds off numbers to hundredth, thousandth, etc.
- Recognizes and writes roman numerals
- Recognizes prime numbers
- Recognizes and uses square number
- Addition and Subtraction
- Identifies missing addend in computation
- Adds with 3 or more renaming
- Subtractors with more than 2 renaming
- Large sums and differences through millions
- Geometry - Lines and Angles
- Planes and Rays
- Types of Angles
- Perpendicular Lines
- Parallel lines
- Geometry - Polygons, Circles, Triangles
- Quadrilaterals and diagonals
- Circles
- Geometry - Similar figures, area, volume, and points on a grid
- Multiplication
- Multiplying by 10's
- Multiplying 2 digit numbers
- Multiplying money
- Multiplying by 100's
- Multiplying 3 digit numbers
- Division - One Digit Divisors
- Understanding remainders
- Zeros in quotients
- Dividing larger numbers
- Mental Division
- Factors
- Division - Two Digit Divisors
- Dividing by 10's
- Dividing by 2 digit numbers
- Adjusting the quotient
- Dividing 1000's
- Estimating quotients
- Roman Numerals
- Time
- Fractions
- Equivalent fractions, to lowest terms
- Improper fractions and mixed numbers
- Writing remainders as fractions
- Adding and subtracting fractions
- Decimals
- Probability, Changing units of measurement, word problems
- Applications
- Completes scale drawings
- Does number tricks
- Probability and Statistics
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Social Studies
- California History
- Timeline for the settlement of california
- Development of the state of California
- Visit local historic sights
- Prepare maps of California indicating important topographical elements, identifying major cities and recreation areas, and identify home community on map
- Understanding of structure of state government
- Understanding of jobs in California and relationship between private business and public agencies
- Recognizes difference between producer and consumer
- California Native Americans
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Geography
- Dividing the World into sections
- The Eastern Hemisphere
- Dangerous Journeys
- Mountain Climbers
- Top of the world
- The Middle East
- Our Land
- Majestic mountains of the world
- Andes
- Rockies
- Appalachians
- Urals
- Alps
- Atlas Mountains
- Mount Blanc
- Mount Kilimanjaro
- Mount McKinley
- Mount Everest
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History
- World Civilization
- Germanic peoples on the move
- Byzantine empire
- Charles the Great
- Roman Empire
- The ladder of society
- far off king
- on the farm
- the manor
- the serfs
- the castle
- William the Conqueror
- Joan of Arc
- The Crusades
- The rise of African empires
- The slave trade
- West meets East
- Sung Dynasty
- Genghis Khan
- American Civilization
- Crossing the Delaware
- Valley Forge
- Ideals and Realities
- Contradictions
- State and Federal Governments
- Taxation without representation
- We the People
- Slavery
- Arguments and Parties
- Monroe Doctrine
- General Jackson
- Mexican war
- Women's rights
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Science
- Life Sciences
- The History of the Earth and it's life forms
- Reading the Rocks
- How old is the Earth
- Dividing the Earth's story into chapters: Precambrian, Paleozoic, Mesozoic, Cenozoic
- Human Body and Health
- The Circulatory System
- The Respiratory System
- Physical Science
- Earthquakes
- Volcanoes
- Continental Drift
- Under the Ocean
- Rocks and Minerals
- Weathering and Erosion
- Formation of the Great Lakes
- Weather
- Energy sources
- Electricity
- Fossil fuels
- Marie Curie
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Fine Arts
- Music
- Harmony
Major Scale
- Chords
- Classical Music
- The Orchestra
- Visual Arts
- Design in Art
- Church of great domes
- Abbot Suger's fiery vision
- Gothic cathedrals
- Rose windows
- Statues
- The natural world
- Vertical lines in African Art
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Physical Education
- Following game rules
- Team effort
- First year of school basketball team
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Computer
- Learning home keys, and touch typing
- Refining skills on how to use the computer as a resource, including
internet skills.
- Practice skills with computer games.
- Produce full reports, with graphics.
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Library
- Refine research skills
- Learn how to categorize the library books
- Find an appreciation of the library, and use it to find books for pleasure.
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