All details of the party were a huge success and the students are to be congratulated for all their hard work and time that went into creating a unique and enjoyable program that included a song that music teacher, Ms. Michelle Champion, helped them to create. Grade four is a year of change, a year when children begin to assume many new responsibilities. We will try to lead the children, with your help, slowly and carefully into the world of independent study until it becomes part of their daily routine.
Fourth grade is the year when content-area study becomes both broader and more concentrated.
The curriculum demands that students delve deeper than hands-on activities and short readings. The approach becomes more academic as students are introduced to specialized vocabulary, critical thinking, multi-level questions, and daily discussions. Perhaps the most important, this is the year when teachers begin to make big intellectual demands of children and expect them to become serious students. We both LOVE to teach fourth grade and we have many wonderful things planned for our classes. Here are some simple things you and your fourth-grader can do at home to build academic skills in reading, math, science, and history.