Our goal for the fourth grade students of Wilson School is to ease them into a new level of academic learning. It is a pivotal transitional year emotionally and socially as well as educationally. We strive to be a positive influence and role model as they mature into young adulthood. We will shape their learning through teaching methods and strategies such as differentiation which reaches the visual, auditory and sensory learner. The students will be challenged to think on a higher level which will initiate critical thinking and decision making. The goal for our students is to have an enriching experience in the fourth grade.

This year's fourth grade curriculum is as follows:

Reading

• Build upon all reading and language arts skills including comprehension, vocabulary, context clues, author's purpose, and point of view.

• Reinforce sentence structure, spelling, and grammar.

• Develop writing skills, specifically the proper way to write a short constructed response which often includes evidence from the text.

Vocabulary

• Enrich vocabulary through exposure, practice, and reinforcement of over 100 new words.

Math

• Place value, money, addition, subtraction, time, data, graphs, multiplication (concepts & facts), division (concepts & facts), geometry and measurement, fractions and measurement, decimals and measurement.

• Students will answer both computation and open ended response questions, in which they will practice using their vocabulary of math terminology.

Grammar and Writing

• Types of sentences, parts of speech, conventions of grammar, capitalization, punctuation, and syntax

• Write Steps curriculum of writing, including narrative, informative/explanatory, and opinion writing, as well as the process of researching for writing

• The process of revising and editing for each piece of writing

• Reinforcement of proper spelling and vocabulary usage in all types of writing

Science

• Life Science- plants and animals, how they grow and live together.

• Earth Science- weather, rocks and soil, layers of the earth and natural resources.

• Physical Science- matter and its properties, changes in matter, forces and motion, energy and sound.

• Space and Technology- Solar system, patterns in the sky and science in our lives.

Social Studies

• Regions of our Country

• The Geography of New Jersey.

• The Land and It's People.

We are positive that the fourth grade students, their parents, and the Wilson School Family can make the upcoming school year both rewarding and unforgettable.