4th
(This information taken from The Home School Manual by Theodore E. Wade, Jr. and Others)

SOCIAL STUDIES

● Types of community life
● History and development of the local state
● Relation of state to its region, the nation, and the world
● World cultures
● Reasons for our laws
● Regions of the world
● Continents
● Time zones
● Earth's resources
● Climatic regions: regions of the four seasons; hot, dry desert regions; cold, hot and mild regions; mountainous regions
● Map skills: longitude, latitude, scale
● Using a globe

SCIENCE

● Structure of plants
● Environment of local state
● Biological organization
● Classification systems
● The insect world
● The reptile world
● Plants and animals of the past
● Structure of plants
● Seeds
● Ecosystems
● Balance of nature
● Human body
● Weather's influences
● Weather instruments
● Climate
● Causes of seasons
● Earth and its history
● Oceans and the hydrosphere
● Air and water pollution
● Magnets and electricity
● Light and color
● Solar system and the universe
● Living in space
LANGUAGE ARTS

● Silent and oral reading
● Choral reading
● Listening skills
● Telephone skills
● Making and accepting simple introductions
● Summarizing simple information
● Listening to literature
● Critical reading
● Short stories, chapter books, poetry, plays
● Spelling
● Increasing dictionary skills
● Cursive handwriting
● Simple outlining
● Writing letters and informal notes
● Written and oral book reports
● Creative writing
● Developing skills in locating information
● Increasing indexing skills
● Developing encyclopedia skills
● Parts of a newspaper

HEALTH AND SAFETY

● Personal and mental hygiene
● Dental health
● The body and its functions
● Skeletal and muscular systems
● Care and proper use of the body
● Principles of digestion
● Basic food groups
● Good nutrition habits
● Diseases
● Safety

MATHEMATICS

● Reading and writing numbers
● Roman numerals to C
● Prime numbers less than 100
● Prime factoring
● Numeration systems
● Subsets
● Decimal and fraction equivalence
● Addition and subtraction fads to 7 places
● Multiplication and division facts to 144
● 1- ,2-, and 3-digit multiplication problems
● 2- and 3-digit dividend, 1-digit divisor problems
● Meaning of mixed numbers
● Finding simple averages
● Geometric concepts
● Customary and metric measurement
● Time to the second
● Problem-solving methods
● Charts and graphs

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