4th Grade -  Typical Course of Study

  

Social Studies

·        Types of community life

·        History and development of the local state

·        Relation of the state to its region, nation, and the world

·        World cultures

·        Reasons for our laws

·        Regions of the world  Continents

·        Time zones

·        Earth's resources

·        Climatic regions of the world

·        Map skills: longitude, latitude, scale

·        Using a globe 

 

 

 Science

·        Structure of plants

·        Environment of the local region

·        Biological organization

·        Classification systems

·        The insect world

·        The reptilian world

·        Plants and animals of the past

·        Structure of plants

·        Seeds

·        Ecosystems

·        Balance of nature

·        Human body

·        Weather instruments

·        Climate

·        Cause of seasons

·        Earth and its history

·        Oceans and the hydrosphere

·        Air and water pollution

·        Magnets and electricity

·        Light and color

·        Solar system and the universe

·        Living in space

·        Scientific method and scientific inquiry 

 

 

 Language Arts 

·        Silent and oral reading

·        Choral reading

·        Listening skills

·        Telephone skills

·        Making and accepting simple social introductions

·        Summarizing simple information

·        Listening to literature

·        Critical reading

·        Short stories, chapter books, poetry, plays

·        Spelling  Increasing dictionary skills

·        Cursive handwriting

·        Simple outlining

·        Writing letters and informal notes

·        Written and oral book reports

·        Creative writing

·        Developing skills in locating information

·        Increasing indexing skills

·        Developing encyclopedia skills

·        Utilizing parts of a newspaper 

 


 

Health and Safety

·        Personal and mental hygiene

·        Dental health

·        The body and its functions

·        Skeletal and muscular systems

·        Care and proper use of the body

·        Principles of digestion

·        Basic food groups

·        Good nutrition habits

·        Diseases

·        Safety

·        Substance abuse 


Mathematics

·        Reading and writing numbers

·        Roman numerals to C

·        Prime numbers less than 100

·        Prime factoring

·        Numeration systems

·        Subsets

·        Decimal and fraction equivalents

·        Addition and subtraction facts to 7 places

·        Multiplication and division facts to 144

·        1-, 2-, and 3-digit multiplication problems  2- and 3-digit dividend, 1-digit divisor problems

·        Meaning of mixed numbers

·        Finding simple averages

·        Geometric concepts

·        Customary and metric measurement

·        Time to the second

·        Problem-solving methods

·        Charts and graphs