4th Grade Curriculum
Below is the Core Curriculum for Kindergarten classes.
Language Arts
Listening and Speaking
- Making oral presentations
- Participating in classroom discussions
- Following oral directions
- Asking questions and conducting interviews
Reading and Literature
- Learning reading strategies including: making inferences, predicting outcomes, sequencing, summaryizing, drafting conclusions, cause and effect, compare and contrast, main idea and topic, and character analysis
- Using reference materials effectively
- Expanding vocabulary, decoding, and phonics skills
- Obtaining exposure to various genre of literature
Written Expression
- Selecting and focusing topics for writing
- Writing compositions including: good sentence and paragraph structure, appropriate details, and expressing meaning clearly
- Increasing proficiency in cursive writing
- Developing skill in using the writing process
- Applying grammatical skills: punctuation, capitalization, and parts of speech
- Understanding topic writing including: descriptive writing, business and friendly letters, persuasive essays, research reports, book reports, comparing and contrasting, and fiction pieces
Social Studies
- Studying the geography and resources of New York understanding the role of New York during exploration, colonization, and the Revolutionary and Civil Wars
- Exploring New York as a national leader in the 20th century
- Studying map and globe skills with an emphasis on local and state land forms and boundaries
- Exploring current events: local, national, and worldwide
- Studying the structure and function of local state, and federal governments
Science
- Studying process skills of hypothesizing, collecting data, analyzing results, and drawing conclusions
- Studying Life Science: interrelationships among animals, relationships between animals and their habitat, and life cycles of the flower: reproduction, germination, and growth process
- Studying Physical Science including: electricity, magnetism, properties of matter, energy changes, and buoyancy
Math
- Knowing place value through hundred million
- Adding and subtracting up to six place numbers, including dollars and cents
- Counting money and making change to $10.00
- Mastering multiplication and division facts 1-10
- Properties of plane and solid geometry, and problem solving skills
- Understanding concepts and basic computation of fractions, mixed numbers, decimals
- Interpreting data from various graphs and using calculators and manipulatives to solve problems
Physical Education
- Understanding, assessing, and achieving personal health-related and physical fitness
- Participating in instructional units on various sports, including active participation, rules review as well as skill development
- Developing social skills through play and competition
Library
- Listening to experience a wide variety of literature, especially those stories and genres children might not discover on their own
- Using a broader range of research materials, including print and computer resources
- Continuing practice in finding library materials independently
Health Education
- Reviewing community safety and learning how to solve conflicts peacefully
- Emphasizing the importance of taking responsibility for oneself, good decision making steps, and proper refusal skills
- Exploring growing up physically and emotionally and the importance of personal appearance
- Keeping teeth healthy and recognizing the types of teeth
- Studying the effects of tobacco on the body
- Realizing the influence advertizing and the media has on personal behavior
- Exploring the body's digestive system
Vocal Music
- Singing a 4-part rounds, descants, ostinati
- Learning about rhythms patterns (syncopation, dotted notes)
- Demonstrating an understanding of musical symbols and directions (time signatures, 1st and 2nd endings, accents, etc.)
- Studying lives and music of specific composers (Tchaikovsky, Rossini, Joplin)
- Undersatnding musical forms such as "ballet", "overture", "program music"
- Learning terms "solo", "duet", "trio", "quartet" through in-class performances
- Singing and listening lessons that coordinate with classrooms curriculum
Instrumental Music
- Understanding proper posture including embouchure, hand position
- Learning assembly, care, and maintenance of the instrument
- Understanding articulations (tonguing, slurs, accents, staccato), and dynamics (piano, forte)
- Understanding tempo: keeping a steady tempo, foot tapping, allegro, andante, using a metronome
- Learning musical terms and symbols: repeat signs, flat, sharp, natural, tie, breath mark, unison, melody, accompaniment, duet, solo, 1st and 2nd endings, pickup notes, DC al Fine, scale, fermata. slur
- Understanding time signatures and key signatures
- Learning rhythm patterns and correct procedures for counting rhythms
Art
- Creating more complex works based on observation, recall and imagination
- Learning proper proportions of the human face, body, and basic perspective
- Continuing to add to student portfolio
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