Fourth Grade

• Students care for God’s creation by raising salmon, releasing them in our neighborhood stream, and nurturing/promoting a safe environment for fish to live in.
• The history, geography, people and government of our great state, Washington, is the focus for social studies.
• Students learn and practice study skills such as notetaking.
• Practicing their presentation skills, students read a storybook in the school-wide speech program.
• Fourth graders display and take care of the school’s American flag, while also leading the school in the Pledge of Allegiance
• In September, students prepare the Holy Spirit Mass.
• Students learn how to play the recorder and perform at the Christmas concert.
• Students organize and present at the Veteran’s Day assembly.
• World Language Class twice a week.

Religion:

• Prayer for Peace and the Memorare
• Cares for God’s creation by raising salmon, releasing them in our neighborhood stream, and nurturing/ promoting a safe environment for fish to live in
• The Beatitudes
• Fruits of the Holy Spirit

Language Arts:

Understands and uses different strategies and skills to read 

• Dictionaries, thesauruses
• Word origins, base-words, suffixes, and prefixes

Understands the meaning of what is read

• Determines text theme, main ideas, author’s purpose and supporting details
• Sequences most important events and summarizes
• Describes and analyzes story elements
• Identifies non-fiction text features and their purpose
• Identifies figurative language devices and their purpose

Uses effective content, organization, and style

• Develops claims and supports them using substantial evidence
• Writes several paragraphs on the same topic
• Learns stylistic techniques to express ideas and creatively and effectively
• Learns spelling rules and patterns
• English language and grammar; sentence structure and parts of speech

Math:

Number Sense and Algebra:

• Quickly recalls math facts to 12×12
• Uses algorithms to solve 4 digit by 2 digit multiplication
• Find multiples and factors of whole numbers
• Determines prime and composite numbers
• Determines mean, medium and mode
• Compares equivalent fractions
• Converts decimals to/from fractions
• Identifies probability in fraction form
• Adds and subtracts fractions, including mixed numbers

Geometry and Measurement

• Computes the perimeter and area of rectangles
• Computes elapsed time
• Knows relative size of standard measurement units
• Expresses measurements from a larger unit in terms of a smaller unit
• Understands geometric properties, such as angle measure

Problem Solving and Reasoning:

• Solves multi-operational word problems

Science:

• Energy Works
• Plants and Animals Structures
• Changing Earth

Social Studies:

• The history, geography, people and government of WA State
• Biography study and writing project on a famous individual or group