Reading-Language Arts

• Word Analysis, Fluency, and Systematic Vocabulary Development
• Reading Comprehension
• Literary Response and Analysis
• Writing Strategies
• Writing Applications
• Written and Oral English Language Conventions
• Listening and Speaking Strategies
• Speaking Applications
  
  

Mathematics

By the end of grade four, students understand large numbers and addition, subtraction, multiplication, and division of whole numbers. They describe and compare simple fractions and decimals. They understand the properties of, and the relationships between, plane geometric figures. They collect, represent, and analyze data to answer questions.

History-Social Science

A Changing State:

Students learn the story of their home state, unique in American history in terms of its vast and varied geography, its many waves of immigration beginning with pre-Columbian societies, its continuous diversity, economic energy, and rapid growth. In addition to the specific treatment of milestones in California history, students examine the state in the context of the rest of the nation, with an emphasis on the U.S. Constitution and the relationship between state and federal government.

Science

1. Electricity and magnetism are related effects that have many useful applications in everyday life.
2. All organisms need energy and matter to live and grow.
3. Living organisms depend on one another and on their environment for survival.
4. The properties of rocks and minerals reflect the processes that formed them.