Beatitudes

The Beatitudes explain how to live God’s way. They are a theme throughout the chapters. We will discuss the understanding of trust and how it relates to trusting in God. We will read Bible stories.

The fourth grade will see Mary as a model of courage. We will explore ways to pray and to practice meekness in actions in prayer. We will pray the rosary and build a May Altar.

The fourth grade will identify witnesses for justice. They will also learn about working and praying for peace. Being compassionate and being forgiving is also addressed.

The class will participate in Advent and Lenten activities. The class will work often on their SLEs as a reminder of respect for themselves and others.

Chapter Tests
Catholic Schools Week

The following are areas covered in the second trimester:

• New Vocabulary
• Inference
• Oral Reading
• Discussion of the Story
• Classification
• Multiple Meanings
• Comparisons
• Poems
• Written Comprehension Questions

The class will turn in book reports. Book reports are due monthly. They will use a special book report form. 175 pages of reading are due each month. 1400 pages or more are needed for the year.

There are Checkpoint, Vocabulary, and Unit Tests.

• Proofreading
• Action Verbs
• Main Verbs and Helping Verbs
• Tense
• Contractions
• Adjectives
• Story Writing
• Acting out Poems
• Essay
• Written out biography

Each student will be writing an essay about Father Junipero Serra. This essay will be due the beginning of March. The two winners of the essays will be announced in the month of May.

The class will be getting the results from their poems that they wrote in November. Some poems will be published in the Anthology of Poetry.

Assessment Tests

• Multiplication
• Memorize Multiplication Facts
• Story Problems
• Division
• Analyzing Word Problems
• Double and Triple Digit Multiplication
• Assessment Tests
• Board Competition

The fourth grade will cover 12 units of work in Spelling.

There is a weekly test, and their spelling spiral must be signed by a parent.

Both the test and spelling spiral will be graded.

We will study mission life in California. The children will learn about California in the 1700’s and how the missionaries came from Spain. They will understand the importance of Father Serra and how he started the first mission.

• Literature – Vallejo and the Four Flags
• Mexican California
• Closing of the missions
• Growth of Ranchos
• Building a mission in the classroom.

The students will build a model of a mission in the classroom. This is a very exciting project that will be displayed during our open house in February.

• Ecosystems
• Food Chains and Food Webs
• Energy Pyramid
• Extinction of Organisms
• Biomes

The students will do experiments in class. The class will exhibit a class experiment for the science fair. There are science related vocabulary tests, and each child works in a science spiral.

The Mad Scientist will visit the classroom with experiments about the Ecosystem.

The fourth grade also has Music, Art, Computer, and Library Classes.