Grade 4

Religion

• Beatitudes, Ten Commandments, Gifts of the Holy Spirit, God’s creation is sacred, Disciples of Jesus, Saints, sin, moral living, Baptism, Paschal Mystery, Covenant, Sacraments, Prayer, Eucharist, Liturgical Year, Mary, Corporal Works of Mercy, Nicene Creed, Prayer for Peace

Reading

• Develop reading strategies:  making connections, visualizing, summarizing, predicting, clarifying, asking questions, setting goals, monitoring/ adjusting reading speed.

• Develop reading skills:  cause/effect, sequence, compare and contrast, inferring, main idea and supporting details, author’s purpose.

• Exploring different genres

• Explore story elements:  plot, setting, character, main events, problem/ solution

• Reading list includes many genres and sources:  Student choice, Open Court Reading, Sarah Plain and Tall, There’s a Boy in the Girls’ Bathroom, Shiloh

• Accelerated Reader—Students are expected to earn 15 AR points per quarter.

Writing

• Focuses on the writing process:  prewriting, drafting, editing, revising, publishing

• Focuses on Six Traits:  ideas, organization, voice, word choice, sentence fluency, conventions

• Writing for many purposes:  narratives, expository essays, poems, fantasy, realistic fiction, biographies, historical fiction, myths, folktales, fables.

• Grammar: parts of speech, sentence structure, punctuation

Spelling

• Various spelling patterns as provided in textbook, Spelling Connections

Math

• Develop mathematical language
• Develop mathematical reasoning for problem solving
• Practice mathematical concepts and procedures
• Practice multiplication, division, geometry, decimals, fractions, word problems, measurement

Social Studies

• Washington State history, geography, Native Americans, Lewis and Clark, Pioneers, Government, and a “Washington State Person, Place or Thing” project

Science

• Human Body, Electricity and Magnetism, Life Structures (salmon and watersheds) and Sun, Moon and Stars