4th Grade Curriculum

Language Arts

The purpose of the Language Arts curriculum is to immerse the students in a reading, speaking, listening, and writing environment. This environment optimizes the students’ strengths and interests by engaging them in hands-on experience thus creating life-long learners. The focus of this program is to have the students learn from their own writing. Spelling and vocabulary are incorporated in the reading/writing process. Topics covered in the writing process include:

• Telling About Yourself
• Communicating With Others
• Explaining Facts
• Giving Directions
• Using Your Imagination
• Painting Pictures With Words
• Persuading Others
• Giving Information
• Comparing and Contrasting
• Parts of Speech
• Descriptive Paragraph
• How-to-Paragraph

Science

The science curriculum will enable students to become scientifically literate. Students are taught to investigate and to distinguish between fact and opinion. Scientific knowledge will be acquired by identifying, classifying, hypothesizing, predicting, comparing, interpreting, and analyzing. Topics for study are as follows:

• Life Science
• Physical Science
• Earth & Space Science

History

Students will become aware of their communities and understand their importance. Throughout the year students will gain knowledge in history, geography, economics, government, citizenship, and culture. Topics for study are as follows:

• Learning About Communities
• Communities of Different Sizes
• Our Physical Geography
• Our Human Geography
• Our History Through Time and Place
• Our Country’s History
• Citizenship
• Government
• Our American Culture
• Cultures Around the World

Reading

The purpose of the Reading program is to produce students who not only know how to read but who also have a desire to read. The students will obtain the skills needed to aid them in vocabulary expansion, spelling techniques, content analysis, and comprehension techniques. The students will be encouraged to apply these skills in all academic areas. Both a basal reader and novels are incorporated into the curriculum. These will include the following:

• Harcourt Trophies
• Sign of the Beaver

Bible

The purpose of Bible class is to expose the students to tools for Bible study and to present traditional doctrinal subjects. The students will gain an understanding of these doctrines as well as how the doctrine applies to them personally.