4th Grade Curriculum

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Religion

Resources for Christian Living, Faith First

• God's Word
• Listening to God
• Advent
• The Good Shepherd
• Story of God
• Lent, Holy Week, and Easter
• Holy Spirit
• Beatitudes
• Ten Commandments
• Students learn monthly prayers.
• Students attend a retreat.
• Students attend mass weekly.
• Students plan and participate in a student body mass.
• Students participate in a service project.

Language Arts

Reading - McGraw Hill, Open Court Reading

• Risk and Consequences Unit
• Business Unit
• Medicine Unit
• Novel: The Lion, Witch, and the Wardrobe
• Skills such as compare and contrast, predicting, drawing conclusions, summarizing, fact and opinion, main idea and details, and cause and effect.
• Accelerated Reading Program

Grammar: Sadler-Oxford, Grammar Workshop

• Sentence structure
• Parts of speech
• Nouns
• Pronouns
• Verbs
• Adjectives
• Adverbs
• Prepositions
• Contractions
• Homophones
• Punctuation

Vocabulary: Sadler-Oxford, Vocabulary Workshop

• 12 words for each unit. Students need to know definitions, synonyms, antonyms, word association, and be able to use words in sentences.

Spelling: SRA McGraw Hill, Spelling

• Words cover different phonics problems in spelling.

Writing

• Students learn to implement the writing process by doing creative writing assignments.
• Students write a Social Studies report on the California Missions.
• Students write a science report on an ocean animal.
• Students learn to write various types of poetry.

Handwriting: Zanar-Bloser, Handwriting A Way to Self-Expression

• Students learn to write all upper case and lower case letters, words, and sentences in cursive.
• Handwriting is required in all subjects except math.

Math

McGraw Hill, Mathematics

• Place Value and Money
• Addition and Subtraction of Whole Numbers
• Data Statistics and Graphing
• Multiplying by 2 and 3 digit factors
• Division by 1 and 2 digit numbers
• Fractions
• Probability
• Accelerated Math Program.

Science

SRA McGraw Hill, Real ScienceLife Science:

• The World of Living Things
• Organisms Live and Grow
• Ecosystems

Earth Science:

• Rocks, Minerals, and Soils

Physical Science

• Static Electricity and Magnets
• Experiments and lab reports
• Discovery Science Center - Electrical Circuits

Social Studies

Houghton Mifflin, History-Social Science

• Geography of California
• The First Californians
• Spanish California
• Mexican California
• Gold Rush Years
• California Becomes a State
• Students write individual mission reports.
• Students build mission replicas in groups in class.
• Class Field Trip to Mission San Juan Capistrano
• U.S. Geography Bee for 3rd and 4th graders.

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