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A Catholic school in Decatur, IL

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Fourth Grade Curriculum

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

The Holy Family Facts

Education for students PreK 3 – 8th Grade

School Begins: 8:00 am
School Dismissal: 3:00 pm

3-year old & 4-year old Preschool

Monday – Friday
8 am – 11:15 am
Half Day Option; 8 am – 11:15 am
Full Day Option; 8 am – 3:00 pm

Extended Care:
Begins 7:00 am
Final Pick Up 5:00 pm

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Holy Family Catholic School

2400 S. Franklin St. Road
Decatur, IL 62521
(217) 423-7049
hfcssecretary@hfcschool.org
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  • Basketball
  • Soccer
  • Decatur Catholic Sports
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