Religion (Harcourt)

• Ten Commandments
• Planning and participating in 3 masses throughout the year

• Daily timed tests (basic facts: addition, subtraction, multiplication, division)
• Mental math and problem solving with each lesson
• Daily lessons and tests
• Assessments every 5 lessons

• Major reading skills:  summarizing, making predictions, drawing conclusions, narrative elements, cause and effect, paraphrasing, main ideas and details, compare and contrast
• Major language skills:  kinds of sentences, dialogue, subjects, predicates, nouns, pronouns, adjectives, articles and verbs
• Separate emphasis on vocabulary with separate workbook
• Skills are tested after each theme
• Daily Oral Language
• Book reports assigned once a month
• Various writing assignments
• Students write their own book in the spring

• Practice writing several times throughout week
• Workbook is used

• With Rebecca Sitton's approach to spelling, words that are tested and targeted for mastery are researched, high frequency writing words, called Core Words and are tested in Cloze Story Word Tests and will be ongoing whole-class tests. The students also have a workbook that they use throughout the year.

• States
• Projects on individual states and final project on the entire United States
• Weekly capital quiz
• Current events shared weekly
• Daily geography

• Units include
  • Plants
  • Oceans
  • Energy
  • Rocks
  • Minerals and landforms
  • Ecosystems
• Projects at Minnesota Zoo with Ocean Unit
• Project with ecosystem Unit

• Variety of mediums and activities

Expectations for 4th Grade

In fourth grade, students are expected to have forty minutes of homework each night. The students have an assignment book to help them be organized. Everything is written in the assignment book each day and parents can check this at home.


Supply List

• 8-10 #2 pencils
• 10 cheap mechanical pencils
• 5 spiral notebooks (wide lined, 70 count)
• 1 notebook for Word-A-Day (student's choice - any kind - large or small notebook)
• 5 2-pocket folders
• 1 ruler
• 1 adult size scissors
• 2 erasable pens (blue or black)
• 2 red pens
• 2 big erasers
• 1 box of crayons
• 1 set of watercolor paints with brush
• 1 box of markers - wide
• 1 box of markers - thin
• 2 yellow highlighters
• 4 Stretchy bookcovers
• 1 packages of looseleaf paper (please send unopened)
• 2 1" 3-ring binders w/ plain hardcovers
• 2 boxes of Kleenex
• 2 bottles of glue
• 2 glue sticks
• 1 package of colored pencils
• 1 container for pencils and pens
• 1 small file box w/dividers (hardcover)
• 4 packs of small index cards - any color (please send unopened)
• Multiplication cards for home use
• dictionary for home use
• 1 water bottle (especially for warmer days)
• 1 pair of tennis shoes for gym
• 1 assignment notebook for each semester to be purchased at school (The cost per book is $3.50 for a total of $7.00.  This money should be sent in an envelope marked with the child's name on the first day of school.)

  DO NOT SEND BAGS OF SNACKS, PLEASE!
  For your convenience, a box will be outside the 4th grade door one week prior to the start of school if you would like to drop off the supplies early. Please make sure everything is labeled with your child's name!