Grade 4
Art
- draws using a variety of art material, and topics from other subject areas, and reflecting a diversity of cultures
- paints with emphasis on mixing colors and media
- makes functional posters (on safety, health, and other matters) featuring well spaced and legible letters
Communication Arts and Reading
- recites and listens to poetry representing diverse cultures
- reads stories that reflect a variety of cultural backgrounds
- expands his or her vocabulary in all content areas by using clues in the text, own experience or knowledge, and the dictionary
- develops more comprehensions skills (e.g. finding details; analyzing character; predicting; finding similarities and differences; drawing conclusions; and interpreting symbols, maps, charts, and graphs)
- increases vocabulary by reading and writing
Health and Physical Education
- identifies physical fitness activities such as stretching, abdominal curls, and aerobic skills, which benefit particular games and sports
- discusses the importance of good nutrition and non-addictive habits for a healthy lifestyle
- improves and combines skills in bouncing, catching, shooting, kicking, striking, and dribbling
- performs square and folk/ethnic dances that reflect a variety of cultures
- understands that people should refrain from using alcohol, tobacco, and other drugs and knows that alcoholic beverages may not be served to minors
Mathematics
- uses bar graphs and line graphs to show quantity
- uses a calculator
- explains what "factor", "multiple", "prime," and "composite" mean
- investigates circumference and diameter relationships
- adds and subtracts fractions with unlike denominators (1/2 + 2/3 = ?; 3/4 - 1/8 = ?)
Science
- solves scientific problems by measuring, estimating, classifying, and predicting
- identifies and classifies rocks and minerals according to their properties, and countries of origin
- identifies and explains the differences among the members of the Solar System
- understands the relationship between Earth and moon
- identifies and recognized the properties and characteristics of plants, seeds, flowers, and their countries of origin
- understands the life cycle of a butterfly
Social Studies
- understands the role that New York City had played in the history of the U.S.
- values and appreciates the many different cultural groups that have influenced the development of our local community
- understands how people from various cultural groups explored what is now the U.S.
- understands how people from various cultural groups settled and developed the original 13 colonies and the impact this settlement had on Native American cultures
- begins to understand the U.S. Constitution and how it has shaped the history of our country
- uses maps to trace the geographical, political, social, and economic growth of the U.S.
Computer Education
- identifies different kinds of computers
- uses appropriate function keys
- understands the parts of the computer
- uses simple desktop publishing word processing programs to develop language and writing skills
- names, saves, and prints documents using word processing, desktop publishing, and graphics software
Library Skills
- studies history by reading biographies and historical fiction
- learns how to skim pring materials to find names, dates, phrases, facts, or ideas
- understands and locates broad classification such as biographies, fiction, etc., through the Dewey Decimal System