RELIGION
Areas of study include:  the Ten Commandments, traditions of the Catholic Church, the values of Faith, Hope and Love, and character education. Students also participate in community service programs sponsored by the school.

READING
A balanced literacy approach to reading is used in the fourth-grade level reading class.  The program studebts use includes direct, explicit instruction in spelling, vocabulary, phonics, grammar, and reading comprehension skills.  Students read a variety of texts from many genres including realistic fiction, historical fiction, fantasy, drama, and informational or expository text.

WRITING
Our Basic Writing Skills program is an evidence-based program that begins at the sentence level and builds on prior lessons to help students write paragraphs and eventually essays, is utilized.  The program provides a developmental sequence of goals for constructing sentences, paragraphs, and essays.

MATH
Units of study include: place value, adding and subtracting with and without regrouping, rounding numbers, money, time, multiplication with and without regrouping, fractions, division with and without remainders and solving single-step and multi-step word problems.

SCIENCE
Units of study include: properties of water, interaction of air, water, and land, animals and plants in their environment, and magnetism and electricity.

SOCIAL STUDIES
The fourth-grade social studies curriculum is a study of the history, geography, and people of New York State.  Units of study include the climate of New York, New York State landforms and the Hudson River, Native Americans in New York, the Colonial Period in New York, and the role that New York State played in the American Revolution.