Fourth and Fifth Grade Main Lesson Blocks
- Norse Mythology
- Maori Mythology
- Virginia Geography and History
- Animals on the Land
- Ancient Civilizations: Egypt, India, Mesopotamia,
- Greece
- Botany
- North American Geography
- Math: Fractions and Introduction to Geometry
- Language Arts
- Class Play
Fourth Grade Language Arts
- Weekly spelling quizzes including dictation of sentences
- Introduction to spelling and usage rules for commonly misspelled and misused words
- Synonyms, antonyms, contractions, and homophones
- Parts of speech: nouns, pronouns, adjectives, verbs,adverbs, conjunctions, and prepositions
- Verb tenses: past, present, future
- Basic punctuation including: capitalization, simple comma usage, ending punctuation, quotations
- Introduction to parts of the sentence: subject and predicate
- Four types of sentences: Interrogative, Declarative, Exclamatory, Imperative
- Dictionary skills: alphabetizing, dictionary searches, and definitions
- Composition: the sentence; the paragraph; punctuation; writing a rough and final draft
- Peer sharing of written work
- Peer editing
- Reading comprehension
- Penmanship and introduction of fountain pens
- Writing of letters, both personal and business
- Written retelling of stories from first person and third person perspective
- Recitation of poetry
- Class readers
- Book projects, including books chosen by each child and books chosen by the teacher.
Fourth Grade Math
- Review of addition, subtraction, multiplication, and division
- Multiplication tables through twelve
- Mental Math (internal computation using the four processes)
- Daily math practice sheets
- Weekly practice sheets for homework
- Multiple digit multiplication
- Multiple digit long division
- Review of measurement and time
- Measurement conversions
- Square numbers and square roots
- Greatest common factors
- Least common multiples
- Introduction to fractions through stories, drawings, paper cutting, and games
- Definition of fraction, numerator, and denominator
- Equivalent fractions
- Improper fractions and mixed numbers
- Expanding and Simplifying/Reducing fractions
- Adding and subtracting fractions, mixed numbers, and whole numbers
- Reciprocals
- Multiplying and dividing fractions
- Form Drawing; Celtic braiding and knots