Grade Four Program
Reading: Promoting Deer Comprehension
Reading concepts and skills are essential factors in each subject area. Students are ready to delve into complex texts. The students study the complexity of characters and themes in fiction and nonfiction genres through the Reading Workshop model, book clubs, and independent reading. This exploration fosters students' interests, allowing their worldviews and knowledge to expand. Students also have the opportunity to develop research skills and explore history while augmenting their skills in cross-text synthesis, close reading, and evaluating multiple points of view.
While analyzing a variety of reading units, Grade Four students will acquire content knowledge and will begin to answer the following questions:
Writing: Creative Writing, Blogging, Reporting, Persuading, and More
In Grade Four, writing assignments recognize the need for students to express their beliefs and research more prominent topics discovered in reading non-fiction and fiction work. Students are on the verge of writing more academic texts. Their work includes creative writing, blogging, report drafting, expository writing, and persuasive writing. Students learn to structure essays by utilizing thesis statements and relevant paragraphs that enrich their arguments as they communicate through their increasing body of language.
Through the study of a variety of writing units, students will acquire content knowledge and will begin to answer the following questions:
Mathematics: Foundational Skills to Last a Lifetime
Grade Four math is critical for building foundational skills that endure the rest of the student's mathematical lives. Students learn to apply strategies, concepts, and procedures to find solutions. They learn to organize, represent and interpret numerical and categorical data. Students focus on using and interpreting variables, symbols, patterns, and properties to write and solve mathematical expressions.
Throughout the year, students begin answering the following questions:
Social Studies: Thinking Critically, Locally, and Globally
Students study topics in-depth, using online and hard-copy resources in groups or individually. They learn to organize their research and ideas, cite sources, sequence information, and analysis in clear writing before creating engaging media presentations, dioramas, and posters. They are encouraged to think critically about local and global issues as they reflect on their place in the world.
Through the study of a variety of social studies units, Grade Four students gain content knowledge and begin to answer the following questions:
Social Emotional Learning: From Managing Emotions to Mindfulness
Students learn skills that will help them manage emotions, express feelings, and focus on learning. In addition, students participate in a daily mindfulness practice that supplements our social-emotional learning program. The goal is to continue expanding their comprehension and application of skills built in prior years, which results in improved self-regulation, conflict mediation, and management.
Our aim is for the students to continue to strengthen their ability to:
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Reading concepts and skills are essential factors in each subject area. Students are ready to delve into complex texts. The students study the complexity of characters and themes in fiction and nonfiction genres through the Reading Workshop model, book clubs, and independent reading. This exploration fosters students' interests, allowing their worldviews and knowledge to expand. Students also have the opportunity to develop research skills and explore history while augmenting their skills in cross-text synthesis, close reading, and evaluating multiple points of view.
While analyzing a variety of reading units, Grade Four students will acquire content knowledge and will begin to answer the following questions:
- How can we use various techniques to determine the meaning of words?
- What skills and strategies need to be applied to construct the importance of the text?
- How do we read literature from various eras, perspectives, and cultures while making personal connections about the world?
- How can we describe and analyze story elements to better internalize the story's value and meaning?
Writing: Creative Writing, Blogging, Reporting, Persuading, and More
In Grade Four, writing assignments recognize the need for students to express their beliefs and research more prominent topics discovered in reading non-fiction and fiction work. Students are on the verge of writing more academic texts. Their work includes creative writing, blogging, report drafting, expository writing, and persuasive writing. Students learn to structure essays by utilizing thesis statements and relevant paragraphs that enrich their arguments as they communicate through their increasing body of language.
Through the study of a variety of writing units, students will acquire content knowledge and will begin to answer the following questions:
- Share their unique thoughts, opinions, and critical thinking with a global audience.
- How do we apply the conventions of capitalization, punctuation, and spelling when writing?
- How can I evaluate my writing and set goals to show growth in areas that are challenging for me?
Mathematics: Foundational Skills to Last a Lifetime
Grade Four math is critical for building foundational skills that endure the rest of the student's mathematical lives. Students learn to apply strategies, concepts, and procedures to find solutions. They learn to organize, represent and interpret numerical and categorical data. Students focus on using and interpreting variables, symbols, patterns, and properties to write and solve mathematical expressions.
Throughout the year, students begin answering the following questions:
- How do whole numbers, decimals, and fractions relate to a mathematical equation?
- How do I relate what I know about a math problem to problem-solving?
- How can I decipher the critical information and proceed to a solution?
Social Studies: Thinking Critically, Locally, and Globally
Students study topics in-depth, using online and hard-copy resources in groups or individually. They learn to organize their research and ideas, cite sources, sequence information, and analysis in clear writing before creating engaging media presentations, dioramas, and posters. They are encouraged to think critically about local and global issues as they reflect on their place in the world.
Through the study of a variety of social studies units, Grade Four students gain content knowledge and begin to answer the following questions:
- Who are the people and significant events that have shaped California's rich history?
- How have Native Americans and the establishment of missions affected the history of California?
- How can I search effectively and research while giving credit to my sources?
- How can I interact with others in a way that protects my privacy and respectfully values communication?
Social Emotional Learning: From Managing Emotions to Mindfulness
Students learn skills that will help them manage emotions, express feelings, and focus on learning. In addition, students participate in a daily mindfulness practice that supplements our social-emotional learning program. The goal is to continue expanding their comprehension and application of skills built in prior years, which results in improved self-regulation, conflict mediation, and management.
Our aim is for the students to continue to strengthen their ability to:
- Learn to recognize their own emotions and the emotions of others
- Use mindfulness in their everyday life
- Develop positive communication and conflict-resolution skills
- Enhance group trust and increase respect for individual differences
