Students also write poetry. Speaking skills are encouraged through a class play before the entire school, book reports presented to the class and to visiting parents, sharing creative writing, making up creative sentences on the spot for vocabulary, and sharing reports. Students in Grade Four explore mathematical concepts in an active approach using concrete materials, both in groups and individually. Students continue to develop skills in problem solving, reasoning, and computational ability with whole numbers, fractions, and decimals. In the Grade Four program, singing is expanded to include simple part-singing, ostinatos, and descants.
Students learn the instruments of the brass family.
The PE program in Grades Three and Four is designed to help children develop an appreciation of human development. The children also develop skills, knowledge, and attitudes to satisfy experiences in physical education and are introduced to more difficult skills to encourage an interest in leisure time activities. Research skills are introduced and developed as part of a national parks project. Indiana history begins with prehistoric Native Americans and continues to the arrival of Europeans and their claims to the New World, Robert de la Salle and his discoveries, introduction to and Indiana's role in the Revolutionary War, the Northwest Territory, the Indiana Territory with William Henry Harrison and Tecumseh, and finally statehood with its capital at Corydon and the first governor Jonathan Jennings. As part of the study of map skills, students identify the continents and oceans, read legends, and locate places through latitude and longitude.