Fourth Grade CurriculumCompassLearning Visit the CompassLearning Web site to learn more about the curriculum and to view sample CompassLearning lessons. Language Arts - Reading comprehension and strategies; genres of literature; informative, persuasive, and creative writing; grammar, mechanics, and usage; speaking and listening skills; spelling; technology in communication; thematic units in literature and poetry; handwriting Mathematics - Number theory; understanding operations (+,-,×,÷) and how they relate; representing fractional and decimal numbers; patterns relations, and functions; representation and analysis using algebraic symbols; properties of shapes; coordinate geometry; transformation and symmetry; time attributes and measurement, customary and metric systems; perimeter, area and volume; displaying and interpreting data; basic probability concepts Social Studies - Pre-historic cave art; ancient civilizations of the Middle East and Central America; early U.S. history; world in spatial terms; U.S. political system; production, distribution, and consumption; current events Science - Process of scientific investigation; common properties, forms, and changes in forms of matter and energy; physical phenomena of sound; structure of solar system and interaction of celestial bodies; characteristics, structure, functions of living things Electives - Brain buzzers; thematic units Technology - Weekly activities using Internet Resources |