Amesbury Seventh-day Adventist School

Grade 4

Curriculum:

  • BIBLE
    • Following God’s way
    • Scripture reveals God as Creator, Sustainer, Friend
    • Fruit of the Spirit: love, joy, etc.
    • Living by His counsel: Proverbs
    • Learning lessons through Parables: lost coin, talents
    • The Golden Rule
    • God’s words of wisdom: Ten Commandments, Beatitudes
    • Choices we make
    • Worshiping God: prayer, tithe, offerings, and Lord’s Supper
    • Responding to and following God
    • Reverence for God and His Word

  • ART

    • Realism and abstractions

    • Vocabulary

    • Interpreting feelings and ideas in art

    • Intermediate colors

    • Perspective

    • Positive and negative space

    • Create designs

    • Hues, textures, and shapes in creation

    • Acquaintance with artists’ lives and their works

    • Media experimentation

    • Fabric comparisons: color, texture, design

    • Collage, paper mache, block prints, enlargements

    • Proportions

    • Organic and inorganic

    • Elements and principles of design

  • COMPUTERS

    • Define and use data base

    • Print shop: create posters, banners

    • Newsletter

    • Community and home computer use

    • Set shapes, Positions, Headings

    • Ethics of copying

    • Computer courtesy

    • Load, Save, Menus

  • LANGUAGE ARTS

    • Reading and Literature

      • Read at instructional level

      • Read independently for information

      • Word analysis: context clues, root words, prefixes and suffixes, accent marks

      • Comprehension: author’s intent, skimming, scanning, inference, summarizing, paraphrasing, prediction

      • Variety of literature: classics, contemporary, multi-cultural

      • Compare literary forms and types

      • Analysis of media: point of view

    • Speaking

      • Vocabulary and usage

      • Discussion and conversation

      • Reports and messages

      • Christian drama: audience awareness, empathy

      • Presence and behavior

    • Spelling

      • Assigned words

      • Organized spelling plan

      • Spells correctly written work

    • Listening

      • Courtesy and appreciation

      • Information

      • Critical thinking: fact versus opinion, persuasive words, nonverbal cues

    • Writing

      • Legibility

      • Composition, reports, letters, poetry, journal

      • Parts of speech: nouns, verbs, pronouns, demonstrative and predicate adjectives, negative adverbs, objects, prepositional phrases

      • Sentence types

      • Essays, news articles, and editorials

    • Study Skills and Reference

      • Note-taking, outlining

      • Concordance and index

      • Library and media center: card catalog and computer access

  • MATHEMATICS

    • Reading and writing through millions place value

    • Roman numerals to ‘C’

    • Estimation

    • Multiples and factors

    • Averages

    • Multiplication and division facts to 144

    • Addition and subtraction of fractions

    • Fraction and decimal equivalency

    • Simple ratios

    • Geometric concepts

    • Standard and metric measurements

    • Problem solving

    • Collect, organize, and interpret data

    • Prime and composite numbers

    • Prime factoring

    • Meaning of mixed numbers

    • Multiplication: one digit multiplication

    • Division: digit divisor

  • MUSIC

    • Basic time signatures: 3/4, 4/4, 2/4

    • Simple conducting patterns

    • Syncopation, phrasing

    • Three-part round

    • Major and minor chord sounds

    • Harmony and dissonance

    • Rondo and variation forms

    • Composers and their compositions

    • Staff, treble clef, measure

    • Terms referring to tempo

    • Lines and space names of treble clef

    • Affect of legato and staccato

    • Nationalistic and patriotic music

    • 20 Century music

    • Hymnal page parts identification

  • PHYSICAL EDUCATION

    • Motor skills

      • individual activities, group games, lead-up games for team sports

    • Concepts

      • safety, rules of health

    • Fitness

      • fitness testing, agility and coordination activities, heart rate monitoring

    • Positive attitudes

      • self-worth, self-control, responsibility

    • Interpersonal skills

      • cooperation, sportsmanship, leadership, respect

  • SCIENCE & HEALTH+

    • God’s unchangeable laws

    • Properties of matter

    • Molecules

    • Mixtures and solutions

    • Changes in matter

    • Transfer of heat

    • Choice and decision making

    • Substance abuse

    • Dinosaurs, fossils

    • Health habits