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3rd Grade

Typical Course of Study

 
 

4th Grade


Social Studies

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  • Holidays and folk customs
  • Native Americans
  • Explorers and pioneers
  • Appreciation of different cultures, races, religions
  • History and development of local community
  • Community helpers
  • Consumers and producers
  • Sources of food and clothing
  • Shelters of animals and people
  • History and development of transportation
  • History and development of communication
  • Citizenship and social responsibility
  • Basic human needs and wants
  • Local geography and topography
  • U. S. geography and regions
  • The continents
  • Flat maps and globes
 
Science

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  • Animal helpers
  • Dinosaurs
  • Life cycle
  • Plants and animals of the desert
  • Plants and animals of the sea
  • Common birds, trees, flowers
  • Forest plants
  • Conservation of plants and animals
  • Weather and climate
  • Earth's changing surface
  • Magnets and electricity
  • Compass
  • Gravity
  • Light and color
  • Energy and its sources
  • Force and work
  • Machines
  • Moon and stars
  • Earth satellites
  • Scientific method and scientific inquiry
 
Language Arts

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  • Silent reading
  • Reading prose and poetry aloud
  • Oral presentations: reporting experiences orally with accuracy
  • Alphabetizing through the third letter of a word
  • Dictionary skills
  • Developing word-attack methods
  • Synonyms, antonyms, homonyms
  • Spelling
  • Beginning cursive writing
  • Concept of paragraph
  • Using period, comma, question mark, apostrophe, quotation marks
  • Writing short, original stories and poems
  • Postwriting skills: editing and proofreading
  • Increasing indexing skills
 
Health and Safety

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  • Care of eyes and ears
  • Dental health
  • Proper balance of activities
  • Healthful leisure activities
  • Prevention and control of diseases
  • Parts of the body
  • Nutrition
  • Health with relation to food, shelter, clothing
  • School and community health services
  • Home safety hazards
  • Safety in the community
  • Simple first aid
 
Mathematics

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  • Reading and writing numbers to 5 places
  • Beginning Roman numerals
  • Rounding numbers
  • Positive and negative numbers in daily life
  • Simple fractions and equivalents
  • Properties of one
  • Numeration systems
  • Addition and subtraction facts to 25
  • Multiplication and division facts to 100
  • Perimeter, area, volume
  • Geometric constructions
  • Similar and congruent figures
  • Properties of solid figures
  • Customary and metric measurement
  • Time to 1- and 5-minute measures
  • Estimation of outcomes
  • Problems-solving analysis
  • Word problems
  • Charts and graphs

4th Grade

Typical Course of Study

 
 
Social Studies

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  • Types of community life
  • History and development of the local state
  • Relation of the state to its region, nation, and the world
  • World cultures
  • Reasons for our laws
  • Regions of the world
  • Continents
  • Time zones
  • Earth's resources
  • Climatic regions of the world
  • Map skills: longitude, latitude, scale
  • Using a globe
 
Science

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  • Structure of plants
  • Environment of the local region
  • Biological organization
  • Classification systems
  • The insect world
  • The reptilian world
  • Plants and animals of the past
  • Structure of plants
  • Seeds
  • Ecosystems
  • Balance of nature
  • Human body
  • Weather's influences
  • Weather instruments
  • Climate
  • Cause of seasons
  • Earth and its history
  • Oceans and the hydrosphere
  • Air and water pollution
  • Magnets and electricity
  • Light and color
  • Solar system and the universe
  • Living in space
  • Scientific method and scientific inquiry
 
Language Arts

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  • Silent and oral reading
  • Choral reading
  • Listening skills
  • Telephone skills
  • Making and accepting simple social introductions
  • Summarizing simple information
  • Listening to literature
  • Critical reading
  • Short stories, chapter books, poetry, plays
  • Spelling
  • Increasing dictionary skills
  • Cursive handwriting
  • Simple outlining
  • Writing letters and informal notes
  • Written and oral book reports
  • Creative writing
  • Developing skills in locating information
  • Increasing indexing skills
  • Developing encyclopedia skills
  • Utilizing parts of a newspaper
 
Health and Safety

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  • Personal and mental hygiene
  • Dental health
  • The body and its functions
  • Skeletal and muscular systems
  • Care and proper use of the body
  • Principles of digestion
  • Basic food groups
  • Good nutrition habits
  • Diseases
  • Safety
  • Substance abuse
 
Mathematics

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  • Reading and writing numbers
  • Roman numerals to C
  • Prime numbers less than 100
  • Prime factoring
  • Numeration systems
  • Subsets
  • Decimal and fraction equivalents
  • Addition and subtraction facts to 7 places
  • Multiplication and division facts to 144
  • 1-, 2-, and 3-digit multiplication problems
  • 2- and 3-digit dividend, 1-digit divisor problems
  • Meaning of mixed numbers
  • Finding simple averages
  • Geometric concepts
  • Customary and metric measurement
  • Time to the second
  • Problem-solving methods
  • Charts and graphs