Grade 4: every topic

Every topic a child covers in Grade 4 under the Common Core State Standards · NGSS, as the app teaches it. 100 topics across 20 subjects: Spelling, Science, Explore, Writing, Quantitative reasoning, Verbal reasoning, Mathematics, English, Brain teasers, French, Spanish, Reading, Exam technique, Art, Physical education, Health, Computing, Social studies, Music, Drama.

This is the real list, not a summary. Each line is one topic in Light Learning, in the words of the United States programme rather than reworded.

Reading

51 topics in Reading this year.

Reading · Literature

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Art

9 topics in Art this year.

Drawing

• Looking properly and putting down what is actually there, which is a trainable skill and not a talent. Working at Grade 4: drawing from life, line and shape, tone and shading.

Colour

• How color actually behaves, which surprises most children and most adults. Working at Grade 4: mixing and matching, warm and cool, tints and shades.

Painting

• Paint as a material with its own rules, learned by using it rather than by being warned about it. Working at Grade 4: thick and thin paint, backgrounds and layers, brush marks.

Printmaking and pattern

• Making the same mark many times, which is where pattern, repetition and a good deal of design begin. Working at Grade 4: repeating patterns, relief printing, pattern in other cultures.

Sculpture and making

• Working in three dimensions, which uses a different part of the head from drawing. Working at Grade 4: joining and construction.

Textiles and craft

• Cloth, thread and the making traditions that most of the world learned art through. Working at Grade 4: sewing, dyeing and resist, collage.

Digital art and photography

• The tools most children will actually use, treated as art materials rather than as a treat. Working at Grade 4: taking a photograph on purpose, framing and composition, drawing on a screen.

Looking at art

• Being able to say something true about somebody else’s work, which is half of every art curriculum and the half usually skipped. Working at Grade 4: saying what you can see, artists from many places, what the artist did.

Sketchbook and process

• The record of the work rather than the finished piece, which is what an art course is actually assessed on. Working at Grade 4: keeping a sketchbook, trying it three ways, finishing a piece.

Physical education

4 topics in Physical education this year.

Movement skills

• The movements every game is built from: running, jumping, throwing, catching and balance. At Grade 4: running, hopping and skipping, throwing and catching, balance and coordination, striking and dribbling, gymnastic shapes and rolls.

Fitness and the body

• What exercise actually does to the heart, the lungs and the muscles, and how to build it up safely. At Grade 4: warming up and cooling down, heart rate, rest, water and recovery.

Games and fair play

• How a game works, why the rules are there, and what makes somebody worth playing with. At Grade 4: playing by the rules, team positions, attacking and defending, winning and losing well.

Safety and equipment

• The kit and the checks that stop an ordinary afternoon becoming an injury. At Grade 4: kit and footwear, checking the playing area, common injuries, heat, cold and water.

Health

4 topics in Health this year.

Keeping the body well

• Hygiene, sleep, teeth and skin: the small habits that prevent most of what goes wrong. At Grade 4: washing and germs, teeth, sleep, illness and immunity.

Food and nutrition

• What food does in the body. Nothing here calls a food good or bad, because that is how eating becomes a worry. At Grade 4: food groups, vitamins and minerals, water and drinks, food safety, allergies.

Feelings and wellbeing

• Naming feelings and knowing what helps. Nothing on this page diagnoses anybody. At Grade 4: naming feelings, calming down, worry, friendship and falling out, asking for help.

Safety and first aid

• What to do when something goes wrong, in the order it should be done. At Grade 4: road and water safety, first aid: bleeding and burns, fire and emergencies, medicines.

Computing

4 topics in Computing this year.

Algorithms and programming

• Writing instructions exact enough for something with no judgement to follow them. At Grade 4: giving exact instructions, loops, conditions, variables, debugging.

How computers work

• What is actually inside the machine, and how information is stored and moved about. At Grade 4: parts of a computer, binary, files and storage.

Online safety and citizenship

• Passwords, privacy, scams and behavior. The part with the largest consequences outside school. At Grade 4: passwords, what is personal information, scams and phishing, being decent online.

Creating with technology

• Making something that works: a program, a document, a spreadsheet, an image. At Grade 4: documents, making a program, images and sound.

Social studies

4 topics in Social studies this year.

History

• What happened, how anybody knows, and why two honest accounts can disagree. At Grade 4: then and now, sources, cause and consequence, local history.

Geography

• Where places are, what they are like, and why people live where they do. At Grade 4: maps and directions, continents and oceans, climate and weather.

Citizenship and government

• How decisions get made for everybody, and what one person can do about them. At Grade 4: rules and laws, rights and responsibilities.

People, work and money

• How families and countries get what they need, and the choices scarcity forces. At Grade 4: needs and wants, jobs and industries, buying, selling and trade, saving and budgeting.

Mathematics

3 topics in Mathematics this year.

Number and Operations · Fractions

• Use equivalent fractions, decimals and percents to represent and compare the same quantity.

Number and Operations in Base Ten

• Multiply a whole number of up to four digits by a one-digit whole number using place-value strategies.

Measurement and Data

• Apply the area and perimeter formulas for rectangles in real world problems.

Music

3 topics in Music this year.

Beat, rhythm and pitch

• The parts every piece is made of, named so a child can say what they are hearing. At Grade 4: finding the beat, rhythm patterns, high and low, loud, quiet, fast, slow.

Reading and writing music

• How sound is written down so somebody who has never heard it can play it. At Grade 4: note values, the stave and clefs, writing your own.

Listening and traditions

• Hearing what is happening in a piece, from anywhere in the world. At Grade 4: instruments and families, music from many places, verse, chorus and structure.

Drama

3 topics in Drama this year.

Voice and performing

• Being heard, understood and believed, which is a set of learnable techniques. At Grade 4: being heard, pace and pause, movement and stillness, staying in character.

Character and script

• Building somebody who is not you, and reading the page they came from. At Grade 4: reading a script, building a character, improvising.

Stagecraft

• Everything around the actor, and the people who run it. At Grade 4: the stage, set, props and costume.

Explore

2 topics in Explore this year.

Artificial intelligence

• Understand how a message can be hidden, and why some codes are easy to break.

Engineering

• Understand that a structure holds because of its shape, before its material.

Quantitative reasoning

2 topics in Quantitative reasoning this year.

Reasoning · quantitative

• Find and apply the rule behind a numerical or figural pattern (CogAT-style reasoning; not a Common Core standard).
• Find and apply the rule behind a numerical or figural pattern (CogAT-style reasoning; not a Common Core standard).

Verbal reasoning

2 topics in Verbal reasoning this year.

Reasoning · verbal

• Reason about word meaning and relationships under time pressure (CogAT-style reasoning; not a Common Core standard).
• Reason about word meaning and relationships under time pressure (CogAT-style reasoning; not a Common Core standard).

Exam technique

2 topics in Exam technique this year.

Practice paper

• Sit a full practice paper for State assessment (Mathematics) under time.
• Sit a full practice paper for State assessment (English Language Arts) under time.

Spelling

1 topic in Spelling this year.

Language · Conventions of Standard English

• Spell grade-appropriate words correctly, consulting references as needed.

Science

1 topic in Science this year.

MS-PS4 · Waves and their Applications

• Develop and use a model to describe how waves are reflected, absorbed or transmitted through materials.

Writing

1 topic in Writing this year.

Writing

• Organize writing into paragraphs, each developing one idea.

English

1 topic in English this year.

Reading · Informational Text

• Determine the main idea of a text and explain how it is supported by key details.

Brain teasers

1 topic in Brain teasers this year.

Puzzles and reasoning

• Work out an answer from the information given, using reasoning rather than recall.

French

1 topic in French this year.

World Languages · French

• Communicate in French on very familiar topics using memorised words and phrases.

Spanish

1 topic in Spanish this year.

World Languages · Spanish

• Communicate in Spanish on very familiar topics using memorised words and phrases.

Every grade in the United States curriculum · All six curricula