4th Grade

Enduring Understandings - All people's bodies, hair, and skin color, and way of dress are different. All people communicate differently, learn differently, eat different foods, feel different feelings and come from different-looking families. Everyone is different and everyone is unique.  

Enduring Understandings - Stories that reflect your family, culture, language and history are important to remember so you don't forget where you came from. Stories also give us a way to see into someone else's life. Stories connect us to each other.

Enduring Understandings - Being "normal" means following rules made by a group of people about how to act, talk, dress and behave, usually so that one group can feel more important than everyone else. People who don't fit into "normal" can be mistreated. We often follow these rules without much thought, or sometimes we follow these rules to fit in, even if we don't like it. Remember, everyone is different and we don't all need to be the same!

Enduring Understandings - We solve problems better when we have more people involved. Problems feel big until you get help from other people. 

Enduring Understandings - When something unfair, unkind, or difficult happens, we feel better when others say something, stand with, us or support us. When you see something unfair, unkind or difficult happening, you can say something or do something, even if it doesn't impact you directly.