Fourth Grade

Religion
Students head knowlege and heart knowelge unite as they walk daily togehter in prayer, experience, and study. The curriculum wraps the studnets in Jesus' love by richly covering the 4 Gospels, parts of the liturgy of the Mass, theological and cardinal virtues, and Marian feast days. Students also recite the Beatitudes, 10 Commandments, Corporal and Spiritual Works of Mercy, Nicene Creed, and the Divine Mercy Chaplet to build on theri knowlege of the Catholic life and the Mass.

Social Studies
Students takes an in-depth look at the study of the United States. Students become well-versed on the regions of the United States, the states and capitals, the economy, and the federal government. Through discussion, map study and  projects, students begin to understand their place in the United States.

Math
Students expands and extends students knowlege in mathematic operations. As the students fine tune thier skills, they begin to use all 4 operations with whole numbers to solve problems and focus on 2-digit multiplication and long division. Building on operation knowlege, students learn how to add and subtract fractions with like-denominators, to compare fractions, to multiply fractions by whole numbers, and to change fractions into decimals. In Geometry, students learn how to measure and draw angles with protractors, use conversion of measurements, find perimeter and area, identify line symmetry, and classify different quadrilaterals. Students draw points, lines, line segments, rays, angles, and perpendicular and parallel lines.

Language Arts
Students study literature of many genres to expand knowledge and literary experiences.  Through group and indivual reading, students gather evidence from texts to analyze and reflect in written pieces. Students learn to identify figurative language as well as write fiction, non-fiction, expository, and poetry pieces. Students' writing mechanics are enhanced not olnly through the process but thorugh the learning of identifying  simple, compound, and complex sentences, and the buliding of knowledge on possessive nouns, verb tenses, linking and helping verbs, pronouns, possessive pronouns, adjectives and adverbs that compare, and prepositions.

Science
Students use hands-on activities and inquiry based lessons to explore  energy, the Earth's resources, the exploration of the natural processes of change in Earth's surface, the exploration living organisms in their environment. Students use what htey have elarnined to then ask scientific questions and develop methods to find answers to those questions.  They also learn  how to use the design process to develop a product or process to solve a problem.