4th Grade Curriculum
Language/Grammar
Objective: The learner will identify the five parts of a complete sentence. Identify the part of speech for each word in a sentence. Construct a sentence given a framework of parts of speech. Explain a word choice depending on its position in the sentence.
Textbooks: Shurley Grammar Level 4, SIM 2010
Time Allotment: 30 minutes a day, 5 days a week
Course Content
First Quarter: Four kinds of sentences, complete subjects and predicates, prepositional phrases, simple diagramming
Second Quarter: Conjunctions and compound parts, interjections, helping verbs, possessive nouns, diagramming compound parts
Third Quarter: Transitive verbs and direct objects, indirect objects, diagramming direct and indirect objects
Fourth Quarter: Linking verbs and predicate nouns, predicate adjectves, diagramming linking verbs
Areas to be evaluated: Class participation, tests, class assignments, rubrics, use of correct capitalization and grammar in all written and oral work,
Reading/Vocabulary/Spelling
Objective: Read to make inferences based on liguc in the text and to determine explicit meanings from text. Determine main ideas of a text and determine the author's purpose for writing; find the key details that support the main idea and summarize these ideas. Determine the spelling and meaning of words and phrases as used in the text (including figurative language) and find out how word choice can shape the meaning of a context and selection. Read and understand expository texts as well as literary texts with proficiency on an indepenedent basis.
Textbooks: Open Court; Imagine it!, SRA 2008, Wordly Wise, EPS 2012, Vocabulary from Classical Roots, EPS 2007
Time Allotment: 60 minutes a day, 5 days a week
Course Content
First Quarter: Risks and Consequences
Second Quarter: Nature’s Delicate Balance
Third Quarter: A Changing America
Fourth Quarter: Science Fair
Areas to Be Evaluated: Class participation, tests, class assignments, group work, use of correct spelling and vocabulary choices, oral and written.
Writing
Objective: The student will learn to use writing as a way of offering and supporting opinions, demonstrating understanding of the subjects they are studying and conveying real and imagined experiences and events.
Textbooks: N/A
Time Allotment: 30 minutes a day, 5 days a week
Course Content
First Quarter: Narratives
Second Quarter: Informative / Explanatory Text
Third Quarter: Opinion / Point of View
Fourth Quarter: Research / Writing Process
Areas to Be Evaluated: Class participation, class assignments, use of correct spelling and vocabulary choices, orally and written and rubrics
Mathematics
Objective: The learner will demonstrate a working knowledge and understanding of math concepts, facts, and processes; develop computation skills; develop problem-solving techniques, and gain a greater appreciation for the order of math.
Textbooks: Harcourt Math, Harcourt Publisher, 2004
Time Allotment: 90 minutes per day, 5 days a week
Course Content
First Quarter: Understand whole numbers and operations; time, data, and graphing; and multiplication and division facts
Second Quarter: Multiply by one- and two-digit numbers, divide by one- and two-digit divisors
Third Quarter: Geometry and algebra; and fractions and probability
Fourth Quarter: Measurement and decimals; perimeter, area, and volume
Areas to Be Evaluated: Above course content and mathematical practices
Science
Objective: Students will be given a solid foundation in Science which is soundly based on Biblical principles.
Textbooks: Understanding God's World, Abeka, 2009
Time Allotment: 45 minutes, 3 days a week
Course Content
First Quarter: Introduction to science and insects
Second Quarter: Birds
Third Quarter: Matter and Geology
Fourth Quarter: Astronomy and the Planets
Areas to Be Evaluated: Course Content
N.C. History
Objective: The learner will demonstrate a working knowledge and understanding of North Carolina history through geography, civics, government, culture, and economics.
Textbooks: Harcourt Horizons North Carolina, Harcourt Publisher, 2003.
Time Allotment: 45 minutes per day, 3 times a week
Course Content
First Quarter: North Carolina’s geography and the early people of North Carolina
Second Quarter: The Coastal Plain region long ago and today
Third Quarter: The Piedmont Region long ago and today
Fourth Quarter: The Mountain Region long ago and today
Areas to Be Evaluated: Course Content
Physical Education
Objective: Students will develop competent motor skills, behavioral strategies to demonstrate responsibility, respect of self and others, and understand the importance of achieving and maintaining a health-enhancing level of physical fitness. 1 Corinthians 6:19-20 admonishes us to remember that our body is the temple of the Holy Spirit.
Time Allotment: 45 minutes a day; 5 days a week
Course Content
3 Weeks: Personal / Social Responsibility: Use behavioral strategies that are responsible and enhance respect of self and others and value activity.
11 Weeks: Motor Skills: Apply competent motor skills and movement patterns as needed to perform a variety of physical activities.
11 Weeks: Movement Concepts: Understands concepts, principles, strategies and tactics that apply to the learning and performance of movement.
11 Weeks: Health Related Fitness: Understand the importance of achieving and maintaining a health-enhancing level of physical fitness.
Areas to Be Evaluated: Participation as an individual and in a group, Teacher observation, Role-playing, Checklists / FitnessGram / Assessments,
Quizzes