Fourth & Fifth Grade

Students are actively engaged in prayer, service projects, and learning to read and interpret scripture.

Writing the Mass intentions, leading the school in Advent and Lenten prayer services, and touring the church are a few ways to increase our faith.

Students reflect upon the Liturgical Year events.  In addition to increasing the students’ knowledge of the Catholic Faith, students are encouraged to develop their personal relationship with God and to share their faith with others.

​We attend Mass on Wednesdays. 

Reading is taught using a novel based method. The students read novels in class rather than from a textbook. The books cover a variety of genres including fantasy, biographies, realistic fiction, and current events. 

“Storyworks” magazine is another reading resource used. It provides plays, poems, fiction, and nonfiction articles.  Behind the scene videos of how magazine authors research and write  nonfiction articles in the magazine are incorporated into lessons.

Students work on threads of core reading strategies, such as compare and contrast, cause and effect, making inferences, sequencing, synthesizing, and summarizing.

We provide inquiry-based lessons aligned with the NGSS curriculum in which students learn by experiencing and interacting with science.

Students make predictions and observations, collect and analyze data, and share conclusions. Some explorations we do throughout the year include Bottle Biology Ecosystems, Biomes-in-a-Box, salt crystal experiments and a variety of S.T.E.M activities that challenge students to think outside the box.