Fourth Grade Classwork Overview:
We practice phonograms daily along with handwriting; students are then tested on 20 phonograms every Friday. We study approximately 30 words each week in our Spalding Notebooks which compile the list of Spelling words for tests each Friday. Sentence dictation tests on Friday help students practice composing complete sentences with proper conventions.
In fourth grade, we start with reviewing basic concepts and then go more in depth throughout the year. We cover multi-digit multiplication and long division, as well as understanding fractions and decimals. A list of lesson topics can be found here: Saxon Helps.
We will be embracing CKLA this year and exploring eight different units: Personal Narratives, Middle Ages, Poetry, Inventors, Geology, Fiction, American Revolution, and Treasure Island. We will be practice several passages to increase fluency in poetry and informative reading.
We will be embracing all CKLA has to offer in Language Arts as we write about the information we will learn about in the units listed above.
We will be implementing grammar through CKLA this year. We are excited to learn about all this new curriculum has to offer!
We have several units to cover throughout the year and switch between science and history each term. We learn about geography, early people, pioneers, and state government/economy in History. In science, we focus on structures/functions of organisms within various environments, rock layers & fossils, energy/motion, waves/patterns of light, and stars/constellations/patterns in the sky.
