For the fourth grade student, the year ahead promises a new level of emotional self-awareness. One may notice a corresponding evolution in the student’s thought process as reasoning becomes more objective. The curriculum is designed to support this new level of academic and social-emotional maturity.
The fourth grade curriculum focuses on the core academic subjects through the lens of Norse myths, as they are particularly suited to impart the gifts, along with the risks, of free will. The combination of history and geography gives students a sense of the interrelated nature of space, time, culture, and the individual. In addition, the fourth grade curriculum brings local geography, study of local Native and Indigenous culture, Celtic knots, composition writing, grammar, fractions, and cross-stitch in handwork. Homework obligations remain thoughtful and succinct with daily string instrument practice and weekly tasks like spelling practice and daily reading, and the culminating Fourth Grade Animal Project.