Grade 4

• Demonstrate competence in reading, writing, and comparing whole numbers through one million.
• Understand the relationship between multiplication and division: multiply two-, three-, and four-digit numbers by one-digit and two-digit numbers; divide by one-digit divisors.
• Demonstrate mastery of multiplication and division facts through 12 x 12.
• Use multiple strategies to solve increasingly complex word problems, and explain how the problem was solved.
• Identify geometric figures; polygons, quadrilaterals, congruent figures, symmetry, and employ formulas to determine perimeter and area of a polygon.
• Identify and measure angles. 
• Participate in interdisciplinary projects related to real-world application of geometry. 
   

• Year long study focuses on world and local food resources and the distribution of healthy, plentiful, and sustainable food throughout the world.
• Topics covered include renewable and nonrenewable resources, world population, food equity, and large and small scale food systems.
• Research projects are conducted to develop research and presentation skills.
• Class participates in a field trip to Appleton Farm.
• Geography topics cover continents/oceans, latitude/longitude, and political/physical/thematic map skills.

Reading

• Develop ability to interpret thematic elements and critically analyze text
• Experience different genres and develop understanding of structures in a novel
• Use text to support responses and opinions
• Develop vocabulary and advanced reading strategies
• Cultivate love of literature and enjoyment of reading for pleasure

Writing

• Follow writing process—brainstorm, organize, write, revise, and finalize written pieces
• Write for different purposes and understand writing conveys different information
• Employ specific and descriptive details, vocabulary, and transitional words to enhance writing
• Use age-appropriate spelling and grammatical constructs

• Understand and identify zones within an ecosystem through study of the rocky coast and the tropical rainforest
• Learn about and be able to identify animal and plant adaptations
• Apply the scientific method to an experimental question
• Investigate the properties of air
• Learn about plant growth and food production while planting and tending a vegetable garden

• Communicate orally in more complete and complex sentences
• Use appropriate manners vocabulary independently
• Retell a simple story using learned text and write own personalized story
• Describe self and others using descriptive adjectives
• Topics covered include: salsa making, classroom objects, foods, and island geography
• Study unique cultural aspects of Puerto Rico
• Explore Spanish and Hispanic culture
   

Fourth grade visits the library with their classroom teachers weekly. Students are also able to visit the library whenever they need a book.

Integrated Technology

• Learn to manage personal files on devices and cloud services.
• Expand presentation skills by creating custom animations, slide transitions, recording/inserting sounds, etc.
• Explore the relationship between ethics/responsibility and technology, particularly as it relates to the Internet
• Expand use of multimedia software and hardware tools to express learning and creativity.
• Use iPads, laptops and desktop computers to assess skills in areas like reading and math.
• Integrate iPad and laptop use in classroom curriculum.

Coding

• Develop intermediate programming skills using Scratch
• Write programs with complex conditional structures
• Use Variables and Lists to store and retrieve data
• Refine programming strategies and code efficiency, including consistently using best practice principles when writing scripts
• Develop greater independence and proficiency in debugging programs

• Recognize, demonstrate, notate, and create with the rhythms: dotted half, eight notes, and the same duration of rests
• Identify, sing with accuracy, notate, and create with the melodic notes: do, re, mi, fa, so, la, ti and high do (extended diatonic scale)
• Sing and recognize the corresponding hand signs for the diatonic scale
• Read notes G through high D on the treble clef and finger the pitches on the soprano recorder
• Learn to sing thirty to fifty folk songs confidently, with expression and in pitch
• Use the real names for rhythmic values learned and read simple melodies with absolute note names
• Learn recording basics on iPad GarageBand and other apps
• Participate in a class musical presentation, working on stage skills, solo voice, and public speaking

• Expand color mixing skills: intermediates colors
• Introduce one and two point perspective
• Explore many aspects of landscape drawing and painting
• Use knowledge of clay construction and glazes to create a landscape in clay
• Create gestures of the human figure for both two-dimensional and three-dimensional work
• Use pliers for creating a structurally sound and balanced wire armature for a plaster sculpture
• Practice observing and drawing from wooden mannequins
• Participate in a community critique using fourth grade art vocabulary

Appreciate the value of handmade wood projects

Apply skills and prior knowledge to build a increasingly complex structure

Appreciate contribution to class and positive working environment

Use locomotor skills in a gymnastics floor routine

Demonstrate manipulative skills such as hitting a tossed pitch, receiving a passed football, and returning a hit pickle ball with a paddle

Develop fitness plan while setting goals and learning about different components of own physical fitness

Chase, flee, and dodge while controlling their bodies in a game situation

Demonstrate rules and strategies of large team games while demonstrating teamwork

Cooperatively problem solve while supporting each other with ideas, honesty, and an open-mind