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Grade 4

Fourth graders will build comprehension skills by reading many different passages, learning and applying context clues and  reading deeply for  comprehension. 

The main skills your child will master are: 

• Summarizing the main topic of a text and the key supporting details.
• Pointing out the evidence used to explain or support what an author’s writing about.
• Giving in-depth descriptions of characters, setting, and events in a story.
• Explaining events, procedures, or a timeline of historical events based on written texts.
• Interpreting information from charts, images, videos, time lines, and diagrams and explaining how it fits with the information your child has read.

• Begins to use direct quotes from texts to explain and prove ideas about the reading.
• Read a variety of genres including fiction, nonfiction, poetry, and drama.
• Use details from the text to summarize it, identity the main idea or theme, compare characters or events, or compare different texts of the same genre.
• Interpret and understand metaphors and comparisons made in a text.
• Identifies an author or narrator’s point of view and explains how this affects the content of a text.
• Compares multiple perspectives on the same event, idea, or theme.
• Uses the context of a text to determine the meaning of unknown words.
• Uses technology and digital media to further their understanding of a topic and to find answers to their questions.
• Gathers information about a topic from multiple sources.

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Grade 4

Writing skills will continue to be polished and built upon this year. A fourth grade language arts curriculum will help students learn and master tons of new writing concepts including the following:

• Use interjections, prepositions and conjunctions for more descriptive and elaborate writing
• Understand each of the five stages of the writing process: planning, drafting, revising, editing, publishing
• Write a narrative complete with an event, narrator and characters

Fourth grade language arts activities should provide students with plenty of opportunities to learn and practice new grammar skills in order to enhance their writing and communication. Below are some of the grammar goals and objectives that a 5th grade language arts curriculum should help your child achieve.

• Use punctuation in titles correctly with proper capitalization and quotation marks.
• Use correlative conjunctions correctly in a sentence: not only/but also, either/or, neither/nor
• Use perfect verb tense correctly and understand how they convey time of events

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Grade 4

Grade 4 Social Studies is focused on New York State and local communities and their change over time, incorporating the study of geography, history, economics, and government.

 Grade 5

In Social Studies, students will explore the different themes of geography and the impact geography has made on our world. This year is based on the history and geography of the Western Hemisphere, including the development of cultures, civilizations, and empires; interaction between societies; and the comparison of the government and economic systems of modern nations. Key Ideas cover a time span from prehistory into modern times. 

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Grade 4 will learn various Bible Stories, the 10 Commandments, Beatitudes, Rosary, Prayers, Review Sacraments and Holy Days, Virtues and Saints.
Our Grade Saint that we will learn about is Saint Kateri Tekakwitha, the first Native American saint from the territories of the United States and Canada, she is popularly venerated as a patroness of ecology.