HIS Grade 4 Curriculum
Children are a heritage from the Lord. .......Psalm 127:3
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Science
Instructional philosophy
As we learn to understand God’s world scientifically we are more able to appreciate the
wonders of his creation Psalm 19:1 “The heavens declare the glory of God, the skies
proclaim the work of his hands”
Instructional goals
The overall goal of promoting scientific literacy has the following sub-goals
To provide a solid foundation in science which is soundly based on the word of God and Christian principles.
To help student appreciate the miracles of God’s natural earth.
To help students really understand basic principles of science rather than to merely teach them science vocabulary.
Instructional Objectives
To encourage the natural interest that young people have in the world around them, to observe, appreciate and ask questions about God’s creation.
To learn about the miniature marvels of creation.
To discover plants as God’s provision for man and beast.
Discovers more about the winged wanders of the world.
To learn about water ,Air and weathers
To reexamine different forms of energy like sound and hearing.
To study the planet earth.
To discover more about the wonders of the sea.
To consider the heavens ie wonders of the might sky, seasons, damp years, pictures in the sky, the sun moon and the origin of the universe
Resources
Student Material A Beka series
Understanding God’s world, Text book
Students activity book
Scope & sequence
Science
Insects
Plants
Birds
Matters
Energy
Geology
Oceanography
Astronomy
Health
Instructional Philosophy
Students gain an appreciation of the fact that they are “Fearfully and wonderfully made” (Ps 139:14), as they understand more about their bodily functions and how best to take care of that which the Lord has given them.
Instructional goals
The overall goal of promoting good health has the following sub-goals:
-To provide adequate information on physical fitness.
-To ensure students learn about personal hygiene.
-To help students develop right relationships.
Instructional Objectives
The students will:
1. Understand more about the body framework.
2. Learn about the 600 muscles in the body, how, they work and how to look after them.
3. learn how the lungs work to keep us breathing and how to keep them healthy and strong.
4. Understand the use of teeth and why it is important to look after them well.
5. Learn about the skin and it’s use.
6. Learn how to groom themselves properly.
7. See the importance of forming right relationships.
Resources
Developing good health-students text book
Developing good health-students text, Quit & worksheets.
Health teaching chart.
Developing good health- teacher’s Edition.
Scope & sequence
-Body frame work
-Muscle Builder
-Your Breathing machine.
-Teeth
-Skin
-keys to good grooming
-A healthier you.
Bible
Instructional Philosophy
Not only do students gain an understanding of Christian about the great doctrines of
Christianity but also they learn how the doctrines apply to them personally. Children
will be able to grow as Jesus did in Luke 2:52 “And Jesus grew in wisdom and stature
and in favor with God and men”
Instructional goals
For fourth grade, the overall goal for Bible is to present the great doctrine of Christianity in an existing and understandable manner with the following sub-goals:
For students to gain a more complete understanding of what the Bible means.
To prepare students for the year with a focus on Bible study skills.
Instructional Objectives
1. Students will develop timeline to understand the sequence of the events in God’s word. Familiarity with maps will help them understand the location of Bible events.
2. Students will discover that the context of a verse further enhances the understanding of it and will use a concordance.
3. Students will learn that Christ is the truth and he is the one who sets us free from our sins.
4. Students will understand that God inspires the Bible and that it is profitable for doctrine, for reproof for correction and for instruction in righteousness.
5. Students will understand that God’s word endures, even when other thing do not.
6. Students will learn that God is omnipresent, that he is with them and likes to hear from them.
7. They will also understand the meaning of omniscient that God knows everything, including all about them.
8. Students will learn that the word “omnipotent” means all power, that the God who loves them is the same one who has all the power.
9. Students will be introduced to the concept of the trinity.
10. Student will learn the story of the pass over.
11. Students will understand that the Holy Spirit is part of the trinity.
12. Student will know that the Holy Spirit empowers.
13. Students will know that the holy spirit who convicts, indwells and empowers them, is with them always and will instruct them so they will understand God’s word and be led in God’s ways.
14. Students will know that we are created in God’s image.
15. Students will learn that all are sinners and that is why all need the saving grace of Jesus.
16. Students learn that we are to glorify God with our lives. They will learn ways to glorify God.
17. Students study the origin of sin as they learn the story of Adam and Eve.
18. Students will understand that sin has polluted the world groups of people and individuals, and even though God forgives us, there are natural consequences of sin in our lives.
19. Students will know that the consequences of sin are death but Jesus has paid the price for us and gives us the gift of eternal life.
20. Students will know that we are saved by grace.
21. Students will understand that there is only one way to heaven and that is by accepting Jesus as their savior.
22. Students will know that all people will spend eternity in either Hell or Heaven.
23. Students will know that God created angles to the workers. Satan was an angle who se pride caused him to fall.
24. Students will understand the concept of the church as the body of Christ.
25. Students will understand what it means to be salt and light in the world.
26. Students will learn that Jesus is coming again the same way he left.
27. Students will know that there are separate judgments for believers and unbelievers.
28. Students will identify the elements of prayer and memorize a model prayer.
29. Students will know that they need to spent time with God everyday.
30. Students will learn the importance of sharing the gospel with others
31. Students will learn the importance of holding on the truth.
32. Students will study the name of Jesus as they review the purpose of Christmas.
33. Students will study the events from the last supper through the resurrection by going through the Bible passages that record them. Because of the power and simplicity God’s word, they will observe the love the love of Jesus for us and the magnitude of his sacrifice.
Resources
Association of Christian schools international (ACSI) Bible file grade 4 teachers edition.
ACSI students workbook
Bible
Scope & sequence
Bible study tools:
Using timeline and maps
Using context and concordance
Doctrine of the Bible:
Bible is inspired
The bible is fine
The Bible endures
Doctrine of God:
God is omni present
God is omniscient
God is omnipotent
Doctrine of Christ:
Christ is divine
Christ had a human body
The doctrine of the Holy Spirit.
The doctrine of man
The doctrine of sin
The doctrine of salvation
Heaven and hell
Angels
The church
Future events
Christian life
Christian lesson
Easter lesson
Social Studies
Instructional Philosophy
To allow students to appreciate the beauty of the land on which they live, ”And God saw that all that he had made, and it was very good…”
Instructional Goals
The overall goal of helping our young students to think about the world in an integrated way and to be aware of the problem and the issues, which affect them and will affect them as they grow up, has the following sub-goals:
-Ensuring that certain knowledge needed by every young child (citizen) is acquired and understood.
-Developing selected social and intellectual skills.
-Fostering attitudes, which will help make the pupil a valuable member of society.
Instructional Objectives
The students will:
1. Learn about the location of Uganda, it’s physical features and it’s climate & natural vegetation.
2. Study the ethnic groups of Uganda and it’s ancient kingdoms.
3. Learn about our natural environment and the changes that have been made over time.
4. Identify the basic needs for man’s survival and learn how these needs are met.
5. Learn about the coming of foreigners to Uganda and the effect they had on Uganda. They will also learn how Uganda became independent.
6. Learn about the location & physical features of East Africa, and it’s climate and natural vegetation.
7. Discover more about the plants and animals of East Africa.
8. Also study the different ethnic groups of East Africa as well as the ancient kingdoms.
9. Learn about the coming of explorers, traders and missionaries to East Africa, the colonization and eventually independence of the different East African countries.
10. Look at the social and economic development of East Africa, in Education, Health care, transport and communication and farming.
11. Understand more about the trade and co-operation in East Africa and different trade organizations.
Resources
Teacher’s book, sharing our world 5, G Wambuzi & T. Bukenya 1996
Teacher’s book,Sharing our world 6, G Wambuzi & T. Bukenya
Student’s book, sharing our world 5, G Wambuzi & T. Bukenya
Student’s book, sharing our world 6, G Wambuzi & T. Bukenya
A new Macmillan social studies atlas for Uganda, 1998.
Scope and sequence
Sharing our world 5:
Our country Uganda
Coming to Uganda
How we live today
Meeting our needs
How Uganda became a Nation.
Sharing our world 6:
Introducing East Africa.
Plants and animals of East Africa.
The Ethnic groups of East Africa.
Explorers, traders and missionaries.
Colonial rule in East Africa and the road to independence.
Social and Economic development in East Africa.
Trade and co-operation in East Africa.
Reading
Instructional philosophy
Allow students to see the use of God’s gift of language to express themselves
clearly in communicating with others. The orderly structures of language demonstrates
God’s orderly plan for their lives as stated in Proverbs1: 2-3, “for attaining wisdom
and discipline, for understanding words of insight, for acquiring a disciplined and
prudent life…’
Instructional goals
To open a world full of adventure, excitement and knowledge longing to be opened. Learning to read, and developing a lifelong love of reading as a key that unlocks the world, sub-grade is:
• Unlock the power of immigration.
• Exploring the puzzling wonders of the environment.
• Viewing language as a rich body of word and lively phrases that grow and change.
• Achieving a personal goal and learning the requirement of hard work and perseverance.
Instructional Objectives
The students will:
1. Develop further auditory discrimination, concepts, and letter/sound correspondence.
2. Reinforce phonics with consonant blends, vowels.
3. Enrichment by responding to literature/relating literature to real life.
4. Learn to appreciate poetry, realistic fiction.
5. Enrich language study with rhyming words grammar mechanics, listening.
6. Develop appreciation of literature through drama, oral presentations, personal writing of poetry, stories.
7. Reinforce vocabulary strategies, word meaning, and synonyms/antonyms.
8. Reinforce graphic organizers-maps, charts, and symbols.
9. Informally develop listening skills for literature appreciation and enjoyment.
Resources
Text-book: silver secrets, Silver Burdett Ginn, 1993
Theme book library / grade 4, Silver Burdett Ginn, 1993
Scope & Sequence
Emergent literacy
Phonics / structural analysis
Literature
Integrated language arts
Vocabulary strategies
Study/life strategies
Language
Instructional philosophy
Allow students to see the use of God’s gift of language to express themselves clearly
in communicating with others. The orderly structure of language demonstrates God’s
orderly plan for their lives as stated in proverbs 1:2,3…” for attaining wisdom and
discipline, for understanding words of insight; for acquiring a discipline and prudent
life…”
Instructional goals
The world of language gives children the opportunity to delight in words, in sounds, and the sheer pleasure of using languages sub-goals are:
• Language awareness and sentence structure
• Reason for writing for communication.
• Using language to persuade.
• Language awareness using nouns.
• Writing process.
Instructional Objectives
The students will:
1. Be introduced to the writing process with stages of prewriting, writing, revising, proofreading, and publishing.
2. Build on prior knowledge and learn more in use of grammar: sentence structure, sentence parts-subjects, predicates, direct object, and clauses.
3. Learn sentence type: simple, declarative, interrogative, exclamatory, imperative, compound and complex.
4. Introduce parts of speech as nouns, verbs, pronouns, adjectives, and adverbs.
5. Expand word usage: words commonly misused, noun and pronoun usage, adjective and adverb usage, and verb usage.
6. Build mechanics of capitalization, periods, question marks, exclamation marks, comma, quotation marks, italics and underlining, apostrophe, colon and hyphen, and indenting.
7. Expand spelling in use of plural nouns, verbs, possessive forms, and writing out nouns.
8. Expand vocabulary of language usage terms.
9. Enjoy language usage in speaking by story telling, reports, conversations, directions giving opinions and persuasive talks.
10. Further understanding of literature using literally elements and devices students will work with plot and setting, poetry, figures of speech, sounds devices as rhyme, repletion.
Resources
Textbook- world of language, Silver Burdett and Dinn, 1993
Scope & Sequence
Grammar
Parts of speech
Usage
Mechanics
Punctuation
Spelling
Vocabulary
Speaking
Literature
Spelling
Instructional philosophy
As students see God’s orderly plan for word structure in our language, they will be
enabled to see that God created and planned all parts of our lives in an orderly
manner. Proverbs 3 states that God’s word is “ for attaining wisdom and discipline
for understanding words of insight; for acquiring a disciplined and prudent life”.
Proverbs 1:2-3.
Instructional goals
The spelling program helps students become better communicators by connecting spelling to all the language arts with the following sub-goals:
• Skills in word building
• Dictionary skills
• Proofreading skills
• Writing mechanics.
Instructional Objectives
The students will:
1. Sort and spell words using pattern power.
2. Spell words in context.
3. Alphabetize spelling words to the second letter
4. Form new words using prefixes, suffixes and rhyming.
5. Writing complete sentences containing spelling words.
6. Practice handwriting by writing sentences containing spelling words
7. Begin to understand the use of editing marks and proofread for errors.
Resources
Textbook- Merrill spelling, Merill Publishing Co. 1990
Scope and sequence
Meaning mastery
Dictionary skills
Word building
Writing activities
Handwriting practice
Proofreading practice
Mathematics
Instructional philosophy
As we learn to master a mathematical body of knowledge we can apply it as a way to
follow God’s instruction in Genesis 1:28a “Be fruitful and increase in number; fill
the earth and subdue it.” Students will better understand the nature of God by
studying one aspect of order of the earth and about God’s creation of our earth
using mathematics.
Instructional goals
For fourth grade, the overall goal of math is to promote the power and relevance of math in student’s lives with the following subgoals:
• relate mathematics (problem solving, estimation, mental math, etc.) to real life
• become confident of their mathematical abilities
• learn to actively explore; to choose strategies or to discover new ones for problem solving
• see the entire process of learning as part of God’s given plan to man from the vastness of design to the order math offers.
Instructional Objectives
The student will:
1. Solve problems involving addition, subtraction, multiplication, and division of whole numbers.
2. Solve problems using addition, subtraction, multiplication, and division of fractions and mixed numbers.
3. Use decimals in problem solving.
4. Explain the use of integers, rationals, and reals in numbers.
5. Write basic algebraic expressions and equations.
6. Solve practical problems involving money and the consumer.
7. Be able to collect, organize, and analyze data using graphs, statistical measures, tables, and charts.
8. Explain and use estimation and mental math techniques.
9. Describe and use basic geometric angles, circles, and classification, spatial locations, and relationships.
10. measure angles, area, and capacity involving comparisons in temperature, time, volume, and weight/mass.
11. Solve problems using critical thinking skills in number theory.
12. Solve problems involving ratio, proportion, and percent.
Resources
Textbook - Heath Mathematics Connections, DC Heath and Co., 1992
Practice workbook
Enrichment workbook
Geometric solids
Scope and sequence
Whole numbers
Fractions and mixed numbers
Decimals
Integers, rationals, and reals
Algebra - basic expressions and equations
Consumer & money - practical problem solving
Data manipulation
Estimation & mental math
Geometry
Measurement
Numeration and number theory
Probability
Problem solving / critical thinking
Ratio, Proportion, and percent