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.
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
