They are taking more responsibility for completing their daily work and improving organizational skills. Reading skills become more complex and applied to a variety of reading material. Independent reading is encouraged as those skills improve. Students continue to develop writing strategies and techniques to apply to a variety of writing forms. More critiquing and editing of students' own work is expected.
Fourth graders move to more multi-step math problems including multiplication.
Problem solving strategies are continually developed in fourth grade. Science and Social Studies are hands-on and activity oriented. Fifth grade students develop independent organizational skills to prepare for the move to the middle school. Students read and are learning to analyze many types of literature. They continue to work on their writing and editing skills which are applied to a variety of writing forms.