Curriculum
Our goal is to help your children reach their fullest potential and learn all they need to learn so that they are prepared for the world of 5th grade next year, and their future beyond the walls of this school. Below we have listed the many different topics you will be seeing throughout your son or daughter’s journey through 4th grade.
Reading Strategies: Literary Elements:
What is Important in Text Character
Making Connections Point of View
Synthesizing Setting
Evaluating Plot
Monitoring and Clarifying Conflict
Predicting Theme
Inferring
Visualizing
Prior Knowledge
Questioning
Literary Devices:
Symbolism
Imagery
Mood
Figurative Language
Dialect
Sound Techniques- rhyme, rhythm…
Dialogue
Suspense
Flashback
Math
Place Value
Addition
Subtraction
Multi-Step Word Problems
Multiplication
Division
Patterns and Rules
Factors and Multiples
Estimation
Fractions
Multiplication and division checks weekly on ThatQuiz. Use the printed information that comes home on Wednesday to help study facts for the next week.
Science
Most of this year’s science will be taught using self-contained science kits. Topics covered will include: water, rocks and minerals, and force and motion. The kits concentrate on providing hands on experiences while using a variety of manipulatives. Students will predict, investigate, draw conclusions, discuss, compare, and reevaluate their opinions. They will be constantly building and developing their thinking skills.
Social Studies
We are covering Our Country’s Regions and Pennsylvania.