4th Grade Curriculum

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.

 

Reading – Harcourt Publishers - Excursions

• Challenges
• Getting the Job Done
• Imagination at Work
• Novel: Novels are given to meet the students level. Such novels as A Tale of a Forth Grade Nothing or The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe have been used.
• Skills add Author’s purpose and perspective, motivation, plot, conflict and resolution, figurative language.
• Skills such as compare and contrast, predicting, drawing conclusions, summarizing, fact and opinion, main idea and details, and cause and effect
• Accelerated Reading Program

 

Sadler-Oxford, Grammar Workshop

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

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: Zaner-Bloser

• Words cover different phonics problems in spelling.

Writing

Aligned with the Common Core

• Personal Narrative
• Narrative poem as well as various types of poetry using figurative language
• Mission Report
• Persuasive Essay
• Explanatory Essay
• Other writing is done across curriculum such as lab reports in Science

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, My Math

• Place Value 
• Addition and Subtraction of Whole Numbers
• Understanding Multiplication and Division
• Multiplying by 1 and 2 digit factors
• Division by 1 digit numbers
• Patterns and Sequences
• Fractions
• Operations with Fractions
• Fractions and Decimals
• Customary Measurement
• Metric Measurement
• Perimeter and Area
• Geometry

Science

Discovery Science Tech Book

• Systems For Survival
• About Energy
• Energy Transfer In Waves
• Resources
• Electrical Thermal Energy

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.