Central Bucks School District Grade 4 Curriculum

Grade 4 Curriculum
Reading	Language Arts	Mathematics	Science	Social Studies

Art	Health	Phys Ed	Library	Music

	Reading § Apply an integrated strategy for word identification. § Continue to expand reading vocabulary and develop reading fluency. § Read text using self-monitoring comprehension strategies. § Continue to make a variety of meaningful connections to text. § Cite evidence from the text to support assertions. § Analyze texts and respond with higher levels of thinking about a story and extend understanding. § Read and understand essential content of information texts. § Read independently for enjoyment.
	Language Arts § Use the writing process, learning to revise and edit pieces with a partner, for a variety of purposes. § To write personal narratives with extended descriptions of people, places and dialogue. § To write paragraphs to inform and persuade, including how-to, compare/contrast, and summaries. § To create fictional stories and poems using figurative language. § Develop legible cursive handwriting using correct letter formation and proper spacing and slant. § Learn assigned spelling words at instructional level and develop strategies to self-correct spelling. § Participate in formal oral activities (discussion, book reviews). § Listen and respond orally to a variety of literature. § Actively listen and participate in cooperative learning situations. § Be introduced to formal study skill and test-taking strategies. § Effectively use reference materials for research and write reports using more than one source. § Learn note taking, outlining, paraphrasing, and summarizing techniques. § Apply correct usage, capitalization, spelling, and punctuation in final drafts of compositions. § Use correct paragraphing, underlining, quotation marks, plural possessives. § Determine functions of nouns, verbs, adjectives, adverbs, and prepositions. § Vary sentence structure. § Write to an informative prompt.
	Mathematics § Understand the function and placement of parentheses in number sentences. § Read and write numerals to hundred-millions; give the value of the digits in numeral to hundred-millions. § Give equivalencies between hundredths (fraction, decimal, percent). § Have a successful strategy for adding/subtracting multi-digit numbers. § Know multiplication, extended multiplication, and division facts. § Understand relationship between multiplication and division. § Solve whole-number division problems. § Solve multiplication and division number stories. § Find equivalent fractions for given fractions. § Identify the whole for fractions and fractional parts of a group. § Round whole numbers to a given place. § Solve multiplication/division problems involving multiples of 10, 100, and 1000. § Apply and explain problem solving strategies. § Name, draw, and label line segments (to the nearest cm. and ¼ inch), lines, and rays. § Name, draw, and label angles, triangles, and quadrangles. § Identify and describe right angles, parallel lines, and line segments. § Display data with a line plot, bar graph, or tally chart. § Use statistical landmarks, maximum, and minimum. § Find area of a figure by counting unit squares and fractions of unit squares inside the figure.
	Science § Identify the various landforms. § Demonstrate an understanding of erosion, earthquakes, and volcanoes. § Describe the layers of the earth and types of rocks and minerals. § Describe the ocean floor and water movement. § Explain the importance of ecology (food chains, food webs, and communities). § Compare and contrast sound waves and light waves. § Analyze the interrelationship between electricity and magnetism. § Construct a series circuit and a parallel circuit. § Describe how light waves react to transparent, translucent, and opaque materials. § Explain how vibrations produce different sounds.
	Social Studies § Identify major explorers of the Americas and locate their countries. § Recognize the influence of geography on the economic and culture growth. § Differentiate between the economy and civic structure of the Native American Indians and that of the Colonists. § Compare and contrast the cultural groups of the Northeast and the Southeast colonies. § Discuss major events leading to the American Revolution. § Demonstrate an understanding of the geography and history of Pennsylvania and Bucks County. § Identify current events which impact upon Pennsylvania.
	Health § Discuss emotions and how to understand and control them. § Explain the influence of peer pressure and behavior. § Identify body systems and their functions. § Discuss foods and nutrition. § Discuss prevention of accidents. § Identify diseases and their spread including AIDS. § Discuss health effects of alcohol and tobacco.
	Phys Ed The Physically Educated Person: § Has learned skills necessary to perform a variety of physical activities. § Is physically fit. § Does participate regularly in physical activity. § Knows the implications of and benefits from involvement in physical activity. § Values physical activity and its contribution to a healthful lifestyle.
	Library § Locate appropriate materials in all library collections. § Use appropriate reference sources, both print and electronic. § Collect, evaluate, and organize information. § Research and report on various topics. Write a full bibliography. § Use various non-print resources to retrieve and present information. § Demonstrate appropriate behavior with print and electronic resources. § Enjoy various forms of literature, including different genres of fiction.
	Art § Identify complex color systems (intermediate, analogous, complementary, and neutral). § Identify positive and negative shapes. § Alter size and positions to make objects look close up or far away in two-dimensional space (perspective). § Use various drawing/painting techniques and media to emphasize emotions. § Demonstrate various color systems through the use of a variety of pastel techniques. § Describe artworks or artifacts from the past. § Differentiate among the artworks created during Medieval, Renaissance, and Post-Renaissance eras. § Describe the elements of form and shape in a work of art. § Illustrate cinematic progressions through the creation of comic strips.
	Music § Learn about instruments of the orchestra. § Recognize and sing major scale. § Awareness of dotted quarter note. § Perform rhythms that include dotted rhythms and syncopated patterns. § Identify terms and symbols for dynamics and form. § Awareness of Time Signature. § Perform more advanced melodic ostinatos.

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