Fourth Grade

While in our classrooms, your student will be learning about these topics and developing the ability to:

• Develop an awareness and appreciation of many artists and cultures from historical and aesthetic perspectives
• Demonstrate critical thinking skills when creating and discussing a variety of artistic works
• Express ideas in varied media such as clay, painting, printmaking, drawing, mixed media, and textile/fibers
• Recognize that repeating lines or texture adds variety and interest to a work of art uses line, color, and shape to show expression in their own work
• Recognize that colors and shapes can attract attention Identifies and uses positive and negative space in a composition
• Arrange their own artwork in a symmetrical or asymmetrical composition

While in our classrooms, your student will be learning about these topics and developing the ability to:

• Clearly communicate their thinking through writing for a variety of purposes
• Communicate their thinking and build on the thinking of others - speaking and listening
• Identify, define, and apply new vocabulary
• Evaluate and use information from a multitude of media sources
• Read and comprehend literature and informational text 

While in our classrooms, your student will be learning about these topics and developing the ability to:

• Respect and understand personal safety, peers safety, and classroom safety
• Practice Interpersonal skills
• Understand and practice disease control and prevention
• Know about healthy body systems

While in our classrooms, your student will be learning about these topics and developing the ability to:

• Work flexibly to show understanding of numbers
• Determine and apply mathematical strategies in real-world situations
• Organize, display, and interpret data appropriate to the purpose
• Demonstrate understanding of fractions and decimals
• Understand the meaning of area and determine the area of a rectangle

While in our classrooms, your student will be learning about these topics and developing the ability to:

• Apply reading skills to meet individual needs
• Select and use appropriate technology for educational and personal goals
• Analyze information in electronic and print media
• Use a variety of productivity tools to communicate
• Follow a systemic research process
• Recognize ethical practice in a global society

While in our classrooms, your student will be learning about these topics and developing the ability to:

• Sing a variety of songs, including part work
• Identify solfege (major diatonic scale = do-re-mi-fa-sola-ti-do)
• Read, notate, and perform rhythms using syncopation
• Identify the sound of various orchestral and world instruments
• Play simple melodies and ostinati on classroom instruments
• Improvise 
• Value and appreciate music
• Demonstrate appropriate audience behavior

While in our classrooms, your student will be learning about these topics and developing the ability to:

• Recognize the benefits of physical activity
• Contribute to a team effort
• Identify rules, skills, strategies, and etiquette of activities
• Move to open spaces
• Demonstrate manipulation skills: catching, throwing, striking
• Develop a positive self-image and attitude
• Practice good sportsmanship in success and failure
• Listen and follows directions
• Evaluate personal fitness levels

While in our classrooms, your student will be learning about these topics:

• Food Webs
• Matter
• Magnetism and Electricity
• Weather
• Variables

While in our classrooms, your student will be learning about these topics:

• Citizenship: Three Branches of Government and Tribal Governments
• Economics: Productivity
• Geography: Latitude/Longitude and Regions of the United States
• History: Minnesotan Immigration
• The US Constitution: Bill of Rights