Grade 4 Curriculum
Curriculum Overview
Religion
Curricular Goals
Students in 4th Grade will:
- Explore the Old Testament
- Identify key people in the Old Testament
- Understand the Ten Commandments
- Understand the coming of Jesus
- Celebrate the Eucharist and the Mass
Text and Materials
- Jesus Our Guide, Faith and Life series (Ignatius Press)
- The New American Bible (Fireside Catholic Publishing Corp.)
Reading
Curricular Goals
Students in 4th Grade will:
- Analyze basic story elements: theme, setting, plot, and character
- Develop metacognitive reading skills: predicting, compare/contrast, main idea, summarizing, and visualizing
- Refine decoding skills to produce optimal reading fluency
- Explore the literary distinctions among a variety of genres of literature, including short story, novel, folktale, and play
- Introduce response-to-literature writing in the forms of journaling and short essay
- Examine a variety of nonfiction types--including letters and short anecdotes--and discuss their purposes and audiences
Text and Materials
English
Curricular Goals
Students in 4th Grade will:
- Practice and emphasize conventions of standard English grammar and usage
- Reinforce concepts of spelling
- Determine the meaning of words in context
- Proofread writing, including revising and editing
Text and Materials
- Easy Grammar: Grade 4 (Wanda Phillips)
- Vocabulary Workshop (Sadlier)
Mathematics
Curricular Goals
Students in 4th Grade will:
- Identify the value of digits using a place-value chart
- Reinforce addition and subtraction computation skills
- Review multiplication by one- and two-digit numbers
- Develop division by one-digit numbers
- Develop ordering, adding, and subtracting fractions
- Review units of measurement and introduce conversion
Text and Materials
- enVisionMath, Pearson Realize Edition (Scott Foresman-Addison Wesley)
- ReflexMath
Science
Curricular Goals
Students in 4th Grade will:
- Introduce organization of living things
- Explore how plants and animals change and adapt to their environment
- Deepen understanding of cells as the basic unit of all life
- Identify properties of, and changes in, matter
- Analyze forms of energy: electricity and magnetism
Text and Materials
- Science (McGraw-Hill)
- A World In Motion Project (AWIM) Resource
- Discovery Education
- BrainPop
Social Studies
Curricular Goals
Students in 4th Grade will:
- Identify geography terms and tools
- Explore each region of the United States
- Define and discuss population density
- Understand the natural resources of each geographic region of the United States
- Identify and memorize the states and capitals of each region of the United States
Text and Materials
- Social Studies Alive! Regions of Our Country (Teachers' Curriculum Institute)
- Discovery Education
- BrainPop
- Newsela.com
Specials
Students is 4th Grade are enrolled in the following specials classes.
- Art
- Computers
- Music
- Physical Education
- Spanish
Events and Experiences
Field Trips
- Solanus Casey Center
- Greenfield Village
Enrichment and Competitions
- Chess Club
Featured Projects
- Saint Wax Museum Project
- Felician Sisters Christian Service Project
- Hoboken Chicken play
- Landform Project