Fourth Grade Curriculum

Bible - Students explore the life of Jesus Christ and the Holy Spirit while learning to build Christ-like character in their own lives. The life of Paul and his missionary journeys, along with scripture memory verses, are a focal part of the Bible study.

Language Arts - Students use the Easy Grammar curriculum to further develop their foundation in English, writing, and reading.

• English - continuing practice with the 8 parts of speech, capitalization, punctuation, and types of sentences
• Writing - use of the Writing Process to complete essays, paragraphs, book reports, and research papers. Types of writing include descriptive, persuasive, expository, narrative, creative, poetry, and friendly and business letters
• Reading - Students read from the Open Court series. Supplemental selections include novel studies from The Lion, The Witch, and The Wardrobe, The Cricket in Times Square, and The Sign of the Beaver. Comprehension skills are enhanced through literature study and vocabulary development. Additional concepts include main idea, drawing conclusions, making inferences, summarizing, cause and effect, classifying and categorizing, critical thinking, application, synthesizing, sequencing, and predicting.

Mathematics - Students use Houghton Mifflin curriculum to continue building and developing a solid foundation. Work with place value and money along with multiplication and division of whole numbers provides the basis for course work in the following areas:

• Operations and Algebraic Reasoning
• Measurement and Graphing
• Geometry and Measurement
• Fractions and Decimals
• Probability/ Algebra and Graphing

Science - Students investigate concepts related to the Earth’s land and resources, properties of matter, and animals. Additionally, students explore the following concepts:

• Magnetism and Electricity
• Weather and Climate

Social Studies and Geography - Students receive an in depth study of our great state using the text Exploring Georgia. This study includes a closer look at events, themes, and important people in Georgia’s history. Broader concepts include:

• Basic American government
• Map reading skills and use of geographic terms
• Location of the states and their capital cities