Saint John School

A Pre-Kindergarten Through Eighth Grade Catholic School in Old Saybrook, Connecticut

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WELCOME TO 4TH GRADE!
 
 

        4th GRADE IS ALL ABOUT……………..

 

        Being independent……Taking responsibility…………..Growing in faith and love by following God’s commandments………..Learning about our country and the world……..Caring about our school and each other…………..Contributing to our communities………Developing strong character……….Being good sports and playing fair……….. HAVING FUN!

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4th GRADE: WHERE EVERYBODY IS SOMEBODY…SPECIAL!

 

    HIGHLIGHTS

 

Religion:

        Text: Christ Our Life: God Guides Us

                Growing in faith

                The Ten Commandments

                The Beatitudes

                Character Counts

                Saints

                First Friday Mass participation

                Advent, Lent, Liturgical activities

                Sacraments taught and practiced

Reading:

        Text: McMillian/McGraw Hill: READING

        SRA Reading Lab

        Daily Sustained reading

        Book of the Month reports

        Poetry project

        Summer reading project

        Classroom library

        St. John Library

 

Language Arts:

        SRA Spelling

        Wordly Wise Vocabulary

        Zaner Blozer Handwriting

        Voyages in English (text)

        6 Traits Writing program

        Paragraph of the Week

        Public speaking

        Independent writing activities

 

Mathematics

        Mastery of basic facts

        Expanding basic computation skills     

        Gathering data, graphing information

        Critical thinking skills

        Problem solving strategies

        Geometry

        Measurement…..standard/metric

        Algebra concepts introduced

        Estimations

        Challenge opportunities

 

Social Studies:

 

        Text: Regions (McGraw Hill)

                5 themes of geography

                Map skills

                Landforms

                Government

                Regions of the USA

Global connections

                Current Events

                Special projects

 

Science:

        Text: Discovery Works (Houghton Mifflin)

                Earth’s land

                Classifying animals and Plants

                Weather and climate

                Magnetism and Electricity

                Science activities

                Scientific process skills

                Science Lab

 
  

PHYSICAL EDUCATION...RECESS!...SPANISH…COMPUTER EDUCATION……MUSIC……..LIBRARY SKILLS….ART