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Concord Christian School endeavors to give a completely God-centered orientation of life to each student. We strive to help produce the mind of Christ in our students and establish a well-grounded biblical world view.
Academic concepts taught in Fourth Grade include:
Bible

  • Study of Old Testament (Enoch, Abraham, Lot and Isaac)
  • Noah and the Ark
  • The life of Jacob and Joseph
  • Thanksgiving and Christmas for Christians
  • Jesus’s childhood and early ministry
  • Later Ministry of Jesus
  • Crucifixion and Resurrection of Jesus
  • Life of Paul
  • Missions Focus Areas:
    • Local – Joni and Friends/ handicap field trip
    • International – China
Language
  • Identify subject and predicate and use appropriately in writing
  • Recognize sentence fragments and run-on sentences
  • Use a variety of modes and genres of writing
  • Write paragraphs, short essays, detailed letters, narratives, book reviews, poetry, and research papers
  • Nouns including common and proper, plural, singular
  • Verbs including helping, linking, action, irregular, past tense
  • Proper use of contractions
  • Prefixes and root words
  • Pronouns including subject, object, possessive
  • Synonyms and antonyms; homophones and homographs
  • Adjectives and adverbs
  • Identify and use the steps of the writing process: brainstorming, drafts, proofreading, editing, publishing
Reading
  • Identify the setting of a story
  • Predict outcomes, draw conclusions, and interpret dialect in reading
  • Read orally with appropriate volume, rate, and expression
  • Discern between fact and opinion
  • Sequence the events in a story
  • Identify and recognize character traits
  • Recognize the conflict, crisis, and resolution of a plot
  • Recognize and use the five steps for researching and writing
  • Participate in multiple novel studies
Math
  • Addition and subtraction word problems
  • Missing addends
  • Place value through millions
  • Adding and subtracting money amounts, decimals, fractions
  • Rounding to the nearest thousands
  • Fractions including mixed numbers and improper fractions, reducing and simplifying fractions
  • Geometry including triangles, rectangles, squares, circles, lines, segments, rays, angles, polygons, quadrilaterals, and congruent figures
  • Area and perimeter of an object
  • Multiplication of two and three-digit numbers, two or more factors, three digits by two-digit
  • Division with remainders
  • Beginning algebra including solving equations
  • Rounding numbers through hundred millions
History
  • Map skills including latitude and longitude, compass rose, symbols
  • Ancient civilizations of the Americas
  • New World freedom and major contributors (Balboa, Cabot, Hudson, Erickson, Vespucci, Ponce De Leon)
  • Conquerors and their contributions to future America
  • The first settlements of America
  • Identify the colonies
  • Spiritual revival in America and major contributors (Edwards, Wesley, Whitefield, Brainerd, Backus)
  • The French and Indian War
  • The American War for Independence
  • Economics in early America
  • The Government including three different branches, US Constitution, Bill of Rights
  • The Civil War and Reconstruction
  • World War I and the Great Depression
  • World War II
  • Post-war America
  • Tennessee history
  • Field trip to the Museum of Appalachia
Science
  • Living things
  • Insects and spiders
  • Plant life
  • Energy: forces and machines, electricity and magnetism, light
  • Gravity: the moon, water, oceans
  • Earth: weathering and erosion, resources
  • Our body: digestion, bones, muscles
  • Participation in a regional science fair
  • Field trip to Ijams Nature Center
Enrichments
  • Art
  • Music
  • Computer
  • Spanish
  • Physical Education
  • Library