Fourth Grade Math 
Fourth grade math adds more complexity to the foundations set in previous grades, especially with the addition of fractions and decimals. Your fourth grader is learning to: 

• Add and subtract multi-digit whole numbers.
  
• Read, write, and compare multi-digit whole numbers.
  
• Use all four operations - addition, subtraction, multiplication, and division - to solve multi-step word problems involving multi-digit numbers.
  
• Understand factors.
  
• Multiply a number of up to four digits by any one-digit number 
  
• Multiply two-digit numbers by two-digit numbers. 
  
• Divide when there is a zero in the quotient.
  
• Divide a number of up to four digits by any one-digit number, including problems with remainders. 
  
• Extends their understanding of fractions, including equal (equivalent) fractions and ordering fractions.
  
• Simplifying fractions.
  
• Add and subtract fractions with the same denominator.
  
• Add and subtract mixed numbers with the same denominator.
  
• Multiply fractions by whole numbers and understand relationships between fractions and decimals.
  
• Plot a point given an ordered pair on a coordinate grid.
  
• Find perimeter, area, and volume.
  
• Identify the mean, median, mode, and range from a set of data or a graph.
  
• Estimate whole numbers using rounding and compatible numbers. 
  
• Understand negative numbers.
  
• Find common multiples.
  

• Understand prime and composite numbers.
  
• Estimate quotients and mentally divide.
  
• Understand improper fractions and mixed numbers.
  
• Read and write decimals.
  
• Convert decimals to fractions and fractions to decimals.
  
• Round decimals.
  
• Be able to place decimals on a number line.
  
• Accurately measure length, weight, capacity and temperature in both customary and metric units.
  
• Add and subtract time and money.
  
• Understand lines and rays, angles, lines, polygons and the area of the rectangle.
  

 


Fourth Grade Reading
Fourth Grade Reading introduces longer texts and new reading comprehension skills. 

• Use reading comprehension strategies to: 
  
  • Make inferences.
    
  • Make predictions.
    
  • Put a story’s key events in sequence. 
    
  • Determine the main idea.
    
  • Identify key details.
    
  • Synthesize information from two texts. 
    
  • Compare and contrast information read.
    
  • Organize text structure using cause and effect.
    
  • Summarize information.
    
  • Identify problems and solutions within a story.
    
  • Determine the theme. 
    
  • Describe a character, setting, and plot.
    
  • Determine the author’s point of view from a first- and third-narration.
    
• Learn new vocabulary words using:
  
  • context clues.
    
  • synonyms and antonyms
    
  • suffixes, prefixes, and root words
    
  • figurative language: idioms, similes, and metaphors
    
  • connotation and denotation
    
• Identify rhythm, meter, and rhyme in poetry
  
• Support analytical thinking with specific examples from the text.
  
• Interpret information from charts, images, videos, timelines and diagrams.
  
• Proficiently read at grade level four in both fiction and nonfiction texts.
  

Fourth Grade Writing 
Fourth Grade writing combines skills from reading and grammar to advance a student’s writing ability. 

• Learn the basic parts of speech. 
  
• Write paragraphs with topic sentences, supporting details, and a closing sentence.
  
• Properly use punctuation such as commas, apostrophes, and quotation marks. 
  
• Understand synonyms, antonyms, and homophones. 
  
• Identify prefixes and suffixes. 
  
• Research and write an informative report. 
  
• Write persuasive essays, personal narratives, and opinion essays.  
  

Fourth Grade Social Studies 
Fourth Grade Social Studies includes history and geography. Your fourth grader will learn:

• World geography including maps, hemispheres, coordinates, mountains, and scale. 
  
• California history such as the missions, the Mexican War for Independence, and the Gold Rush. 
  
• Growth of California due to immigration and migration.
  
• Development of the modern economy.
  
• Structure and purpose of the United States government. 
  

Fourth Grade Science
Fourth Grade Science introduces curriculum about the human body, rocks,  Your fourth grader will learn about: 

• The human body through exploring the senses and the brain. 
  
• The rock cycle, volcanoes, erosion, and earth changes. 
  
• Conducting hands on experiments to understand concepts. 
  
• Sound waves, wavelengths, and communication. 
  
• Energy, motion, and electricity. 
  

FOURTH GRADE RELIGION
Fourth Grade Religion will emphasize prayer, scripture, vocations, and becoming aware of the need for justice and fairness to others through the acknowledgements of the Corporal and Spiritual Works of Mercy. Students will learn how to better understand how rules and regulations are the measure of right and wrong.  They will learn and study different Saints who are our spiritual role models. They will learn these things and much more not just through the text, but also through written and creative activities, group work, power point, videos, whether virtual or in the classroom.