Welcome to
Del Mar Hills Academy

I became a teacher for one important reason: I love school! Making learning fun and exciting, as well as memorable, is very important to me. I want all my students to look forward to coming to our classroom every day. For 180 days, your child becomes my child too! We share the process of shaping them into a eager learner and a good human being. 

In 4th grade, you can expect your child to start taking on a lot of ownership in their learning, as well as their behavior. As far as curriculum goes, you can expect to see the following: 

READING: Summarizing main ideas, using textutal evidence

WRITING: Crafting coherent opinion pieces, informational essays, and narratives with clear structure and supporting details

MATH: 

Operations & Algebraic Thinking: Mutli-digit arithmetic, factors, multiples, and generating patterns

Number & Operations in Base Ten: Mastery with place value, rounding multi-digit numbers, operations with whole numbers up to millions

Fractions: Understanding equivalence, comparing fractions, working with decimal fractions to hundredths, and operations involving tenths and hundredths

Geometry & Measurement: Classifying 2-dimensional shapes, finding lines of symmetry, calculating area and perimeter, and measuring angles

SOCIAL STUDIES: California history, especially the Spanish Missions, geography, indigenous cultures, and pre-statehood times

SCIENCE: Fossils, erosion, basic electricity, forces and motion, light, heat, geology, and earth systems