In each level of learning, Holy Family provides a structured learning environment tailored to enhance the skills of each individual student. The areas of focus for our fourth grade students include;
Religion
- Love God and one another
- Understand Jesus as the Way, the Truth and the Life
- Discipleship
- The Ten Commandments
- Liturgical seasons
- Sacraments
- Community outreach
- The Rosary
Reading
- Develop critical thinking skills through cross-curricular lessons coordinated with reading, spelling, vocabulary, grammar and composition
- Skill development in analyzing text and reading for information
- Graphic organizers for clear understanding of story elements
- Identify main ideas
- Make inferences and generalizations
- Predict outcomes and draw conclusions
- Differentiate between fact and opinion
- Determine cause and effect
- Read biographies and non-fiction texts
- Reinforce skills using leveled readers and Storia Online
- Synonyms, antonyms and homophones
- Mastery of weekly word list
Spelling/Vocabulary
- Reinforce correct spelling through daily exercises and spelling strategies
- Review commonly misspelled words and irregular plurals
- Introduce cross-curricular words
- Integrate spelling with phonics, vocabulary studies, reading and writing
Writing/Composition
- Organize key words into phrases using word webs and graphic organizers
- Graphic organizers to construct paragraphs with clear expression of ideas
- Write factual, creative and descriptive compositions
- Build skills in sentence construction, grammar and punctuation, editing
- Express ideas and thoughts in daily writing journal
- Identify parts of a sentence
- Introduce verbs of being
- Verb tense: regular and irregular verbs
- Pronouns
- Subject complements
- Compare adjectives and adverbs
- Introduce prepositional phrases
- Cross-curricular writing assignments
Mathematics
- Compare and order numbers to 100,000
- Use rounding and front end estimation
- Find factors and multiples of whole numbers
- Find the mean, median, mode and range of a data set
- Determine the probability of an event
- Measure and create angles and line segments
- Fluency and accuracy drills in four operations
- Multiply, divide three digits
- Understand mixed numbers
- Add and subtract decimals
- Geometry
- Compare, add and subtract fractions
- Circle and line graphs
- Measurement
Science
- Rocks and fossils
- Classification of living things
- Mass and matter
- Scientific measurement
- Vertebrates and invertebrates
- Water resource
- Weather
- Planets
- Electricity, circuits and magnets
Social Studies
- Research, compose and present 5 paragraph important historical person report
- Study of U.S. regions, states and capitals
- Introduce trade, production of goods, exports and imports
- Analysis of charts, graphs and timelines
- Focus on the 5 themes of geography to reinforce cardinal directions
- Distance and scale
- Maps
- Longitude and latitude
Technology
- Smartboard and iPad lessons, activities, and online interactive learning tools are integrated with the curriculum.
Art
- Craft projects
- Painting
- Drawing using perspective, shadowing and dimension