Fourth Grade Curriculum

Math: Saxon Math (according to placement test)

Grammar: Shurley English 5 & WISE Guide to Spelling

Rhetoric: IEW & Classically Cursive

Natural Philosophy: Biology & Earth Science

Theology: Veritas Bible (see below), Heidelberg Catechism

History & Geography: Veritas History (see below) plus supplemental material, Map Drawing (Bortins)

Latin: Latina Christiana 1 (Memoria)

Literature: Covenant Classical Fourth Grade Book List:

  • The Door in the Wall by Marguerite DeAngeli

  • The Book of Three by Lloyd Alexander

  • The Horse and His Boy by C.S. Lewis

  • Prince Caspian by C.S. Lewis

  • Five Children and It by E. Nesbit

Music and jingles are integrated throughout the curriculum, and we hope to add PE, music, and art as formal specials when resources are available.

The curriculum plans will be subject to ongoing Board and faculty review and fine-tuning.

Bible & History will rotate for the school from 1 to 5 depending on the year; depth of study will correspond to grade level (2nd - 6th).

Bible cycles:

  1. Genesis to Joshua

  2. Judges to Kings

  3. Chronicles to Malachi and Job

  4. Gospels

  5. Acts to Revelation

History cycles:

  1. Old Testament & Ancient Egypt

  2. New Testament, Greece & Rome

  3. Middles Ages, Renaissance & Reformation

  4. Explorers to 1815

  5. 1815 to Present

“Education is not a subject, and it does not deal in subjects. It is instead the transfer of a way of life.”

- G.K. Chesterton