Suggested Curriculum 

For

4th Grade 

SOCIAL STUDIES

    - Types of community life
    - History and development of the local state
    - Relation of state to its region, the nation , and the world
    - World cultures
    - Reasons for our laws
    - Regions of the world
    - Continents
    - Time zones
    - Earth=s resources
    - Climatic regions: regions of the four seasons;
        hot, dry desert regions;cold,hot and mild regions;mountainous regions
    - Map skills: longitude, latitude, scale
    - Using a globe

    - Structure of plants
    - Environment of local state
    - Biological organization
    - Classification systems
    - The insect world
    - The reptile world
    - Plants and animals of the past
    - Structure of plants
    - Seeds
    - Ecosystems
    - Balance of nature
    - Human body
    - Weather=s influences
    - Weather instruments
    - Climate
    - Causes 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

    - Silent and oral reading
    - Choral reading
    - Listening skills
    - Telephone skills
    - Making and accepting simple 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
    - Parts of a newspaper

    - 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

    - Reading and writing numbers
    - Roman numerals to C
    - Prime numbers less than 100
    - Prime factoring
    - Numeration systems
    - Subsets
    - Decimal and fraction equivalence
    - 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