| Description of Fourth Grade
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| Art |
- draws using a variety of art material, and topics from
other subject areas, and reflecting a diversity of
cultures
- paints with emphasis on mixing colors and media
- makes functional posters (on safety, health, and other
matters) featuring well spaced and legible letters
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| Communication
Arts and Reading |
- recites and listens to poetry representing diverse
cultures
- reads stories that reflect a variety of cultural
backgrounds
- expands his or her vocabulary in all content areas by
using clues in the text, own experience or knowledge, and
the dictionary
- develops more comprehensions skills (e.g. finding
details; analyzing character; predicting; finding
similarities and differences; drawing conclusions; and
interpreting symbols, maps, charts, and graphs)
- increases vocabulary by reading and writing
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| Health
and Physical Education |
- identifies physical fitness activities such as
stretching, abdominal curls, and aerobic skills, which
benefit particular games and sports
- discusses the importance of good nutrition and
non-addictive habits for a healthy lifestyle
- improves and combines skills in bouncing, catching,
shooting, kicking, striking, and dribbling
- performs square and folk/ethnic dances that reflect a
variety of cultures
- understands that people should refrain from using
alcohol, tobacco, and other drugs and knows that alcoholic
beverages may not be served to minors
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| Mathematics |
- uses bar graphs and line graphs to show quantity
- uses a calculator
- explains what "factor", "multiple",
"prime," and "composite" mean
- investigates circumference and diameter relationships
- adds and subtracts fractions with unlike denominators
(1/2 + 2/3 = ?; 3/4 - 1/8 = ?)
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| Science |
- solves scientific problems by measuring, estimating,
classifying, and predicting
- identifies and classifies rocks and minerals according
to their properties, and countries of origin
- identifies and explains the differences among the
members of the Solar System
- understands the relationship between Earth and moon
- identifies and recognized the properties and
characteristics of plants, seeds, flowers, and their
countries of origin
- understands the life cycle of a butterfly
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| Social
Studies |
- understands the role that New York City had played in
the history of the U.S.
- values and appreciates the many different cultural
groups that have influenced the development of our local
community
- understands how people from various cultural groups
explored what is now the U.S.
- understands how people from various cultural groups
settled and developed the original 13 colonies and the
impact this settlement had on Native American cultures
begins to understand the U.S. Constitution and how it has
shaped the history of our country
- uses maps to trace the geographical, political, social,
and economic growth of the U.S.
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| Computer
Education |
- identifies different kinds of computers
- uses appropriate function keys
- understands the parts of the computer
- uses simple desktop publishing word processing programs
to develop language and writing skills
- names, saves, and prints documents using word
processing, desktop publishing, and graphics software
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| Library
Skills |
- studies history by reading biographies and historical
fiction
- learns how to skim pring materials to find names, dates,
phrases, facts, or ideas
- understands and locates broad classification such as
biographies, fiction, etc., through the Dewey Decimal
System
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