Hannah is a fourth grader
with the Calvert curriculum. She is 75% finished fourth grade math. We use CD roms with grammar, history, and spelling. We added in Discoveries in Art and Spanish Ia from Calvert, Health from ABeka, Music from Rod & Staff, and PE.
For math, we are covering fractions, simplifying fractions, common denominators, comparing fractions, and converting mixed fractions to improper fractions and back. Hannah, like PJ, does much of this in her head.
For grammar, which seems like a review to her, covered the definition of a sentence and the four types thereof. We also remembered the terms subject and predicate with the help of the song from Schoolhouse Rock, Mr. Morton is the subject of my sentence, what the predicate says he does.
Hannah reluctantly began Robinson Crusoe, but is reading with gusto now. She really wants to find out what happened to him, and how it compares to the Disney version of Swiss Family Robinson.
Vocabulary Connections is very good for her. She is definitely learning new vocabulary, but also study techniques, i.e. the process of elimination.
Poetry remains one of her favorite subjects. | 