Fourth Grade

List of 12 items.

• Reading & Literature

  • Word recognition and expression in oral reading
  • Independent reading skills
  • Comprehension strategies
  • Produce individual book projects
  • Summarize information and re-tell stories
  • Understand story elements: symbolism, plot, character, development, and tone
  • Theme, character change, author's style, uncover structure, work on words, consider perspectives, compare texts, and use evidence
  • Participate in whole-class and small-group literature groups and dramatic read aloud

• Writing & Language Arts

  • Writer’s Workshop to strengthen writing
  • The writing process with greater independence and effectiveness
  • Strategies to improve spelling and grammar
  • Proofreading and editing skills for thorough revisions
  • Print and online dictionaries and thesaurus resources
  • Public speaking skills

• Social Studies

  • California, United States, and world geography
  • Black Panther Party
  • California artists and musicians
  • Dustbowl and World War II in California
  • Analysis of primary and secondary documents for point of view and bias

• Mathematics

  • Facility with number facts: addition, subtraction, multiplication, and division
  • Problem-solving strategies, organization, and note-taking skills
  • Regrouping addition and subtraction
  • Two-digit multiplication and division
  • Fractions and decimals
  • Probability, statistics, and graphing
  • Measurement
  • Geometry
  • Algebraic concepts

• Science

  • Energy transformations and collisions
  • Waves and messaging (information transfer)
  • Animal adaptations
  • Natural disasters and mitigation techniques

• Spanish

  • Class reading of El capibara con botas book and related activities
  • Subject pronouns (yo, tú, él/ella/elle, usted, nosotros, ellos/ellas/elles)
  • Regular and Irregular verb conjugations
  • Conversational skills
  • Spelling and vocabulary
  • Articles (masculine, feminine)
  • Culture through the study of geography and people of Spanish-speaking countries
  • Listening and speaking skills through guided conversations with peers

• Technology

  • Equipment care
  • Technology agreements and proper uses
  • Typing and proper position
  • Google docs, sheets, and presentations: creating, sharing, collaborating, and printing
  • Device orientation
  • Digital citizenship

• Visual Arts

  • Drawing: contour lines, proportion, portraiture, landscapes
  • Painting: watercolor techniques
  • Clay
  • Printmaking: Andy Warhol/pop art
  • Self-portraits: Vincent Van Gogh, Frida Kahlo 
  • African masks and shields

• Music

  • Fourth and fifth-grade choir
  • Intro to American folk music, Irish folk music, and North Indian classical music
  • Intro to Caribbean percussion rhythms
  • Intro to Caribbean folk and African repertoire
  • Basic music terminology
  • Singing scales and arpeggios

• Physical Education

  • Muscle strength and endurance
  • Relationship between practice and performance
  • Leadership and cooperation

• Library

  Literary genres

• Community Engaged Learning

  • Design Thinking project to improve our local community