Fourth Grade

In fourth grade at St. Pius School, the religion curriculum incorporates many Bible stories while focusing on the Trinity and the Beatitudes. Fourth graders discuss how Jesus wants them to live their lives. In social studies, students study California history, the missions and the gold rush. The students work on multiplication, division and some very basic algebra in math. Reading skills are expanded as the children read for critical information, look at the characters in stories and work on inferring information from the text. In science, the curriculum includes a combination of the three branches of science: biological, earth and physical. The students have many opportunities to work on improving their writing. Some examples of fourth grade writing include sentences, stories and descriptive and informational paragraphs. In English the students continue to build on and practice grammar skills that have been learned in previous grades.

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Here is "Golden Gulch", the place where the teams get to pan for gold. They answer questions based on things learned in class, and then earn gold nuggets for correct answers.
This is a bulletin board the students made showing all the Corporal Works of Mercy.
Here are students working on the simulation game, the Gold Rush. They are writing a miner's log describing what has happened to them out in the gold fields.