Fourth Grade
- Build fluency with the multiplication and division processes
- Develop problem-solving strategies to solve word problems
- Regrouping in addition and subtraction
- Multiply multi-digit numbers by two-digit numbers
- Divide to find quotients involving multi-digit dividends and by two-digit divisors
- Use reading comprehension strategies to make sense of texts
- Use schema and make connections between texts
- Use figurative language to visualize and deepen understanding in texts
- Make inferences to think more deeply in narrative and expository texts
- Understand story elements and use them to understand and remember information
- Explore main ideas and support thinking with evidence from texts
- Summarize texts and retell stories
- Participate in read-alouds, small group work, and independent reading
- Learn new vocabulary and use strategies to find the meaning of unknown words
- Develop the writing process: pre-write, draft, revise, proofread, and publish.
- Focus on ideas, organization, voice, word choice, sentence fluency, and conventions
- Focus on sentence structures, grammar usage, capitalization, and punctuation
- Engage effectively in a range of collaborative discussions
- Write essays of three to five paragraphs
- California Native Americans
- Spanish and European exploration and control
- California missions: origins and history
- Mexican governmental decisions and control
- Americanization with westward expansion
- California statehood
- Gold Rush
- Transportation changes that led to change
- Basic structure of the U.S. government
- Spanish grammar
- Sentence structure and punctuation
- Introduction to conjugating of verbs
- Time telling
- Learn basic vocabulary like animals, colors, and numbers
- Ask and answer simple questions in Latin
- Share basic ideas about themselves and others
- Read stories with repetitive vocabulary, such as Rufus Lutulentus
- Practice pronunciation of classical Latin
- Learn about Ancient Roman sights like the Pantheon
- Motor skills and movement patterns
- Ball control
- Passing and receiving
- Combining balanced and weight transfers
- Throwing and catching
- Game strategies and tactics
- Demonstrating personal responsibility
- Develop sportsmanship
- Circuits and electricity
- The rock cycle, natural history, geology, and fossils
- Engineering challenges that solve real problems
- Potential and kinetic energy
- Traditional and digital animation
- The United Nation's Global Goals for Sustainability
- Tending to the school garden and chickens
- Google Suite, including docs, slides, and Google Classroom
- Collaborate to solve design problems for individual and group projects
- Use critiques from adults and peers to improve ideas, process, and artwork
- Develop skills with value and contrast with their art
- Begin learning techniques involving textiles
- Introduction to color theory and its uses in art
- Additive and subtractive sculptures
- Different types of religious art
- Create characters, stories, and design elements
- Perform in one drama production a year
- Demonstrate use of body and voice to communicate
- Examine performance skills
- Critically respond, offering comments and observations
- Instrumental music, focusing on strings
- Introduce the viola and string bass
- Begin to study musical notation
- Prepare for and participate in an end of year performance
- Whole-class singing focused on California history
- Participate in drum circles
- We feature a wide variety of books
- We go once a week for a read aloud and to check out books
- We encourage questions and model reading strategies
- We have character-based discussions
- We have a large selection of books including fiction, nonfiction, and reference materials There are many Newbery and Caldecott winners in our holdings
- The librarian is able to refer our students to many diverse books to students
- There is a different display each month of theme-based artifacts
- Informed by our Episcopal identity
- Once a week gathering with kindergarten through fifth-grade students
- Once a week gathering with all grades
- Time to reflect, pray, learn, and acknowledge events in the lives of students
- Celebrate birthdays and communal events
- Led by school chaplain with the assistance of the student chaplains
- Guest speakers are welcomed to discuss different aspects of faith
- Families and friends are welcome