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Fourth Grade

Integrating Spelling and History with traditional Carden instruction of Sentence Analysis, Comprehension Techniques, and Vocabulary Development provides our Fourth Grade students an engaging, integrated curriculum. Completing Saxon Math 6/5 provides our students with challenging, advanced assignments. Combining the studies of the Age of Exploration, Native Americans, and Texas offers our students opportunities for daily class work, as well as long term assignments that require research and note-taking, written and oral reports, and visual aids.

Although Science is a part of all grades at Highlands Christian, Fourth grade is the first year for students to have class in the Science Lab. Your child will have pets in the classroom (many that moms refuse to have in the house, but find a resting place in the lab), will perform experiments wearing protective goggles and lab aprons, sing about the digestive systems and the rock cycle, watch videos about various subjects, work with a Versa-Tile puzzle to reinforce concepts, and even drink hot chocolate when the outside temperature drops into the 40’s, 30’s, 20’s, teens, and single digits for the first time during the school year.

Fourth Grade students also develop a “repurposing project” that coincides with the Fifth grade Invention Convention and the Sixth grade Science Fair.

As in all of the other grades, your Fourth grade student will have classes in Physical Education, Music, Art, and French.

The Carden System is specifically designed to help children develop their innate powers of analytical and organized thinking.

This system is unique in that all subject matter is interrelated and sequential from grade level to grade level.

The Directors of the Carden Schools

Teachers

Becky Ford-Edit

Becky Ford

Mrs. Ford seeks to instill confidence in each student’s ability to learn and grow. Student progress and accomplishments are a product of reaching for the potential within each student. Humor, fun, and laughter fill her classroom — fueled by a personal connection with peers and the teacher. One of the best predictors of a student's success —both academically and emotionally — is a feeling of connection. Mrs. Ford focuses on creating a fun learning environment and building relationships. She finds great joy and amazement in the accomplishments, maturity, and growth each child achieves throughout the year.

Mrs. Ford  has 15 years of teaching experience. When she completes a day of fun in sentence analysis, she returns home to her encouraging husband and enjoys connecting with her three adult children.  

Beth Lyons

Beth Lyons

For the last 13 years, Mrs. Lyons has taught Kindergarten, Instructional Technology, Third and Fourth Grades. As an experienced educator, she strives to be grounded in love, compassion, patience and joy. Mrs. Lyons recognizes the inherent worth and potential of her students, as they are created in the image of God. She works to create a challenging and nurturing environment where her students strengthen their minds, self-reliance, social confidence and relationships with Christ.

Mrs. Lyons holds a B.S. in Interdisciplinary Studies from Texas A&M University. When she is not teaching, she enjoys spending time in the Lake Highlands community with her husband and two children, biking, swimming, camping and anything in the great outdoors.