Fourth Grade
Concord Christian School endeavors to give a completely God-centered orientation of life to each student. We strive to help produce the mind of Christ in our students and establish a well-grounded biblical world view.
Academic concepts taught in Fourth Grade include:
- Study of Old Testament (Enoch, Abraham, Lot and Isaac)
- Noah and the Ark
- The life of Jacob and Joseph
- Thanksgiving and Christmas for Christians
- Jesus’s childhood and early ministry
- Later Ministry of Jesus
- Crucifixion and Resurrection of Jesus
- Life of Paul
- Missions Focus Areas:
- Local – Joni and Friends/ handicap field trip
- International – China
- Identify subject and predicate and use appropriately in writing
- Recognize sentence fragments and run-on sentences
- Use a variety of modes and genres of writing
- Write paragraphs, short essays, detailed letters, narratives, book reviews, poetry, and research papers
- Nouns including common and proper, plural, singular
- Verbs including helping, linking, action, irregular, past tense
- Proper use of contractions
- Prefixes and root words
- Pronouns including subject, object, possessive
- Synonyms and antonyms; homophones and homographs
- Adjectives and adverbs
- Identify and use the steps of the writing process: brainstorming, drafts, proofreading, editing, publishing
- Identify the setting of a story
- Predict outcomes, draw conclusions, and interpret dialect in reading
- Read orally with appropriate volume, rate, and expression
- Discern between fact and opinion
- Sequence the events in a story
- Identify and recognize character traits
- Recognize the conflict, crisis, and resolution of a plot
- Recognize and use the five steps for researching and writing
- Participate in multiple novel studies
- Addition and subtraction word problems
- Missing addends
- Place value through millions
- Adding and subtracting money amounts, decimals, fractions
- Rounding to the nearest thousands
- Fractions including mixed numbers and improper fractions, reducing and simplifying fractions
- Geometry including triangles, rectangles, squares, circles, lines, segments, rays, angles, polygons, quadrilaterals, and congruent figures
- Area and perimeter of an object
- Multiplication of two and three-digit numbers, two or more factors, three digits by two-digit
- Division with remainders
- Beginning algebra including solving equations
- Rounding numbers through hundred millions
- Map skills including latitude and longitude, compass rose, symbols
- Ancient civilizations of the Americas
- New World freedom and major contributors (Balboa, Cabot, Hudson, Erickson, Vespucci, Ponce De Leon)
- Conquerors and their contributions to future America
- The first settlements of America
- Identify the colonies
- Spiritual revival in America and major contributors (Edwards, Wesley, Whitefield, Brainerd, Backus)
- The French and Indian War
- The American War for Independence
- Economics in early America
- The Government including three different branches, US Constitution, Bill of Rights
- The Civil War and Reconstruction
- World War I and the Great Depression
- World War II
- Post-war America
- Tennessee history
- Field trip to the Museum of Appalachia
- Living things
- Insects and spiders
- Plant life
- Energy: forces and machines, electricity and magnetism, light
- Gravity: the moon, water, oceans
- Earth: weathering and erosion, resources
- Our body: digestion, bones, muscles
- Participation in a regional science fair
- Field trip to Ijams Nature Center
- Art
- Music
- Computer
- Spanish
- Physical Education
- Library