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In Grade Four, students will. . .

RELIGION:

·          Commandments

·          Beatitudes

·          Guidelines for living

·          Love God – Love others

·          Be happy in this life and in the next

·          Community of the Church

·          Prayers

·          Sacraments

·          Service

Text: Christ Our Life: God Guides Us  (Loyola Press)

LANGUAGE ARTS

Reading

·          Focus on story structure, text organization, topic, main ideas, supporting details, summarizing

·          Predict outcomes and make generalizations, draw conclusions, make inferences and judgments

·          Recognize cause and effect, fact and opinion, similes and metaphors, symbolisms, compare and contrast information

·          Categorize and classify information

·          Use trade books to enhance reading skills and social studies

Text: (Houghton Mifflin)

Writing

·          Write complete sentences using correct punctuation and capitalization

·          Identify common, proper, singular, plural and possessive noun

·          Identify action, main, helping, present & past tense verbs, subject/verb agreement

·          Demonstrate   knowledge of standard spelling, grammar, mechanics and usage

·          Use writing process – prewriting, rough draft, revising, proofreading and publishing

·          Write precise descriptions, instructions to express opinions, to persuade, write a story

·          Apply basic editing skills to final draft of writing

·          Prepare and deliver oral presentations of written work

Text : ( Zaner-Bloser,  Inc.)

MATH

·          Identify place value to hundred million

·          Add and subtract 4 digit numbers

·          Add and subtract money through $100.00

·          Read, interpret, and construct line, bar, pie, and pictographs

·          Multiplication with 2 digit numbers

·          Long division

·          Use estimation

·          Name and draw geometric figures

·          Compare equivalent and non-equivalent fractions

·          Add and subtract fractions

·          Add and subtract decimals

·          Find perimeter, area, and volume

·          Investigate probability

·          Use appropriate problem solving strategies

Text:  Mathematics:  Exploring Your World  (Silver Burdette, Ginn)

SCIENCE

Life Science

·          Plants, plant parts, and life cycles

·          Animal behavior, food chains, food webs

·          Animal and plant adaptations

Physical Science

·          Measuring matter

·          Work and energy

·          Electricity and magnetism

·          Light and sound

Earth Science

·          Measuring weather conditions

·          Changes in landforms

·          Oceans

·          Movement in solar system

Health

·          Digestion and circulation

·          Nutrition

·          Exercise and fitness

·          Brain and sense organs

·          Effects of drugs

·          Safety

Text:  Discover Science (Scott, Foresman)

SOCIAL STUDIES (Michigan)

·          Geography of Michigan

·          Regions of Michigan

·          Landforms and resources

·          Climate and weather

·          Peoples of Michigan

·          How Michigan became a State

·          Michigan’s participation in the Civil War

·          The Great Depression and WW II in Michigan

·          Michigan’s government

·          Examine maps and globes

·          Make maps of Michigan and U.S.

·          Understand latitude and longitude

·          Read elevation and profile maps

·          Read line and circle graphs

·          Identify fact and opinion

·          Understand cause and effect

·          Write an outline

·          Identify continents and states

·          Identify regions of the U.S.

Text: (MacMillan, McGraw, Hill)

ART

·          Art elements and composition concepts are mastered

·          Textures, pattern and balance

·          Watercolor introduced

·          Mosaics introduce

·          Identify types of art such as landscape and portrait

·          Greater individual expression

MUSIC

·          Experience singing in unison and two part harmony

·          Identification of form and instrumentation

·          Understand music reading skills

·          Appreciation of various styles of music

·          Lives of famous composers

PHYSICAL EDUCATION

·          Motor Skill development

·          Games, relays, stunts, tumbling, conditioning exercises, individual and dual team sports

·          Reinforcement in areas of movement, rhythmical activities and fitness

TECHNOLOGY  BENCHMARKS

·          Continue keyboarding skills

·          Access Template

·          Edit Menu: Cut, Copy, Paste, Select All

·          Font, Alignment and Style

·          Justification

·          15 words per minute at 85% accuracy

·          Application of knowledge examples

St. Anthony School Curriculum Guide

                                   Developed 2003