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