St. Anselm’s fourth grade would like to welcome family, friends, and visitors to view our web page. We are studying religion, language arts, arithmetic, social studies and technology with our homeroom teacher. Specialists teach us science, technology, Spanish, p.e., art and music. You will find information about important dates and field trips when those dates are scheduled. The “Blog” will give you up to date, noteworthy information about our learning experiences in and out of the classroom. We hope this web site will be important and central to our class communication. Have fun reading our site as we spend our year discovering our great state of California and much more through an integrated, themed based curriculum!

We look forward to a wonderful year together working cooperatively on our SLE’s, Schoolwide Learning Expectations! Our schoolwide theme for the year is “KINDNESS” which will fit in beautifully with our religion curriculum! The first theme we’ll explore in religion is ‘We Believe’. We learn about Divine Revelation, the Covenant and the Law of the Lord. Listening to God will be explored and hopefully, practiced in acts of kindness!

We will start the new year with a new math series, Scott Foresman-Addison Wesley enVisionMath, and another new web based program, Mathletics, through CTN. Numeration and addition facts will be our starting point. Learning ‘fact families’ will be stressed as we begin our year to help learn the inverse operations. When we  have mastered addition we will move on to multiplication.

Our language arts curriculum includes the exciting Rebecca Sitton spelling program, the Step-Up-to-Writing program, the Scott Foresman Reading program, the Houghton Mifflin English program, and Daily Oral Language (DOL). In addition to the reader, we will be reading three novels together as a class! Reading, writing, listening, imagining, creating and learning all the time about ourselves and others will keep this class busy!

Oh, California is the name of our social studies book. We will have fun studying the geography of California, as well as the first Californians! Our class uses the social studies program as an overall theme for the class writing, activities, and events. There is so much to learn about our rich history! We will begin by making dough relief maps of the state of California!

Check in often and look for our blog. This class will have  so much to write about and they will have fun doing it, I promise!

Happy first days of school!