4th Grade

Fourth Grade Curriculum Overview

English/Language Arts - Hominy Valley Elementary uses Wit & Wisdom, which is a comprehensive K-8 English Language Arts curriculum crafted to help students build the knowledge and skills they need to be successful readers, exceptional writers, and effective communicators. Students build knowledge of topics such as poetry (figurative and literal language), extreme settings, Revolutionary War, and Greek Mythology. Students will also expand their writing skills in the areas of informational, opinion and narrative writing.

Mathematics - Fourth grade mathematics curriculum is organized into various strands.  With our focus being on multiplication and division strategies, addition and subtraction algorithms, fractions and decimals, measurement and geometry, and real-life data applications. Problem solving strategies and multiple step word problems are a year-long focus.

Proficient 4th grade students have expanded their abilities to perform mathematical tasks and to use models to demonstrate their understanding. They are confident in exploring new concepts with concrete materials because they have had repeated opportunities to experiment with manipulatives. The evaluation of student achievement in mathematics should reflect what students can do, explain, and record.

Social Studies - Fourth grade students proceed from studying their community to a study of the state of North Carolina. Students learn about the characteristics of North Carolinians, who we are and where we came from. The geographic regions, landforms, climate, and resources are explored. The social, economic, and political institutions are studied as students develop a broad context of the southeast, the nation, and the world economy.

Science - The focus for fourth grade students is on analyzing systems and learning how they work.
Science Concepts: animal behavior and adaptation, composition and uses of rocks and minerals, electricity and magnetism, food energy for growth and repair of the body, land changes, Earth/Moon/Sun relationship, physical and chemical changes, forms of energy.