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School Curriculum
These pages feature the curriculum for each grade level. This curriculum is followed by our teaching staff to provide the highest possible level of achievement with each student. While our teachers have the freedom to add to the curriculum on an as need basis, each parent can expect the basic curriculum to be the guide for each class.
Additional information will be added to these class pages by our teaching staff. Please visit often to review the curriculum and see additional material that is added.
To view the curriculum for a grade, click that grade on the links below.
Fourth Grade Curriculum Guide
Bible
ACSI Elementary Bible Series
Art
The focus of the art program will be to use a broad range of art media and subject matter. At this age the children are more skillful in their use of the different art mediums and will begin depicting realistic subjects. They will be encouraged to incorporate the elements of art and the principles of design in their artwork. Students will develop knowledge of art history and will be able to recognize art created by different cultures. The students will learn facts about artists from the past and present. They will learn to talk about their art, classmate’s art, and famous art by using art vocabulary.
Computer
Students are exposed to computers daily, with an instructional period once a week. Students learn:
- Educational games
- Keyboarding skills
- Word processing
- Spreadsheets
- Database
- Computer terms
- Internet terms
- Using search engines for research
Computer programs include:
- Type to Learn (Sunburst)
- Simfarm (Maxis)
- Outnumbered (The Learning Company)
- Word Processing (Microsoft Works)
- Astro Algebra (Edmark)
- Oregon Trail (MECC)
Reading
Comprehension… Students learn to:
- Identify main idea and supporting details
- Predict outcomes
- Draw conclusions
- Identify cause and effect
- Infer
- Make decisions
- Sequence
- Identify propaganda
- Use maps, graphs, charts and schedules
Structural Analysis Skills… Students learn to identify and use:
- Compound words
- Affixes
- Contractions
- Abbreviations
- Syllables
- Accent marks
Texts: World of Reading: Silver Secrets (Silver Burdette)
Vocabulary
…Students increase vocabulary through the use of:
- Homonyms
- Synonyms
- Antonyms
- Multiple-meaning words
- Context clues
- Analogies
Text: Purposeful Design (ACSI)
Length: all year
Language
Grammar…Students learn to:
- Define and write the four kinds of sentences
- Use punctuation marks, including commas, colons and quotation marks
- Identify and use:
- Nouns – common, proper, singular and plural
- Pronouns – subject, object, and possessive
- Verbs – linking, action, regular and irregular, in the three tenses
- Adjectives – common, proper, adjectives that compare
- Adverbs
- Simple and complete subjects and predicates
Text: Language Arts Today: 4 (ABeka)
Length: all year
Writing…Students learn to:
- Write paragraphs with main ideas and supporting details
- Write a personal narrative
- Write an explanation
- Write a descriptive paragraph
- Write a persuasive paragraph
- Write a clarification paper
- Write a friendly letter
- Use the following steps in their writing:
- Prewrite
- Draft
- Write
- Revise
- Proofread
- Publish
The genres 4th grade focuses on are: Research Reports; Biographical Stories; Letters of Request and Complaint
Students also use journals to explore ideas.
Texts: Language Arts Today, Language A (ABeka)
Length: all year
Math
…Students learn:
- Place value to millions
- Addition of whole numbers to six places
- Subtraction of whole numbers with borrowing to six places
- Multiplication of whole numbers with carrying up to 3 digits times 3 digits
- Division of whole numbers up to 2 digits into 6 digits
- Averaging
- Fractional parts of a group
- Reducing fractions
- Changing improper fractions
- Addition and subtraction of fractions with common denominators
- Mixed numbers
- Addition and subtraction of fractions with different denominators
- Subtraction of fractions with borrowing and/or uncommon denominators
- Multiplying fractions and whole numbers
- Multiplying fractions and mixed numbers
- Writing decimals as fractions
- Adding and subtracting decimals
- Using the decimal in money problems
- English linear, liquid and weight measures
- Metric units of length and weight
- Converting measures
- Measuring Temperature
- Perimeter of squares and rectangles
- Area of squares and rectangles
- Roman numerals
- Estimation
- Graphing and algebra
- Statistics and probability
Text: Houghton Mifflin: Mathematics
Length: all year
Study Skills
…Students learn to:
- Follow directions
- Sort and classify
- Alphabetize
- Use dictionary guide words
- Use parts of a book – contents, index and glossary
- Use resource books
- Take notes
- Outline and use graphic organizers
Texts: Dictionary, Encyclopedia
Spelling
- Students use phonics skills to learn to spell a list of words every week.
- Correct spelling is stressed in daily written work.
Text: Purposeful Design Spelling (ACSI)
Spanish
- Students will demonstrate a progressive ability in communicating both orally and written in Spanish.
- Students will begin to understand the spoken language in familiar phrases, animals, foods, colors, numbers, months, familiar objects, and weather phrases.
- Students will explore customs from Spanish-speaking countries.
Text: Espanol para ti
Length: all year
Geography
… Students learn to:
- Name and identify on a map the 7 continents and 4 oceans
- Identify on a map the western and eastern hemispheres
- Name and identify on a map the 5 Great Lakes
- Name and identify on a map the important rivers and mountain ranges in the United States
- Name and identify seaport cities, desert lands, grasslands, tropical rain forests, Polar Regions, mountain countries and island countries.
Texts: Atlas, resource books
Length: all year
History
… Students study:
- Space exploration
- The Discovery, Exploration and Settlement of America
- The American Colonial Period
- The Revolutionary War Period
- The Early Years of the United States
- Westward Expansion
Students also study North Carolina history, geography and economics.
Texts: History 4 (ABeka)
Length: all year
Science
… Students study:
- Birds
- Oceanography
- Machines: Work and energy, simple and complex machines
- Electricity and Magnetism: Electric current, circuits, magnetic materials, electricity
- Matter: Properties of water, matter, molecules and atoms, elements
- Weather: Causes and forces of weather, instruments and observation
- Solar System: The universe, sun, planets, stars and space
- Planet Earth: The atmosphere, hydrosphere, lithosphere, rotation and revolution
Text: ABeka
Length: all year
Physical Education
- Students will gain movement competency while exploring gross and fine motor skills.
- Students will demonstrate responsible behavior while learning cooperative teamwork.
- Students learn the fundamentals of various team sports.
- Healthy life style choices will be stressed.
Music
Students are exposed to different types of music, learn about pitch and rhythm and begin to read music, using the Orff Process, during special weekly instruction. Each year’s music curriculum reviews and builds upon the previous years’ skills. Students in fourth grade learn:
- Recorder: BAG
- Recorder; Low E
- Recorder: High C
- Call-response
- Dynamics
- “Fine”
- “D.C. al fine”
- Introduction
- Interlude
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