Skill development includes vocabulary, literacy appreciation, dictionary usage, and word attack skills. Each nine weeks a novel is used across the curriculum to enhance skill development. Spelling lessons are taught weekly to reinforce phonic development. The Wizard of Oz English Students learn grammar and writing techniques through the Shurley method. They learn the eight parts of speech and overall sentence structure.
Students discover how all sentence parts fit together to make sense and express an idea.
Formal and creative writing opportunities are used to allow students to expand, improve, and edit their own writing skills. Mathematics Using the incremental development of Saxon Mathematics 54, our fourth grade mathematics program provides students with the time and opportunity necessary to build a solid foundation in beginning mathematics. This program uses a cognitive structure that builds on a students' prior learning. Students review and refine their computational skills in addition, subtraction, multiplication, and division. Students also expand concept development in the areas of place value, geometry, measurement, and fractions.