Fourth Grade

List of 6 items.

• Art

  Instructor: Elisa Garcia
  
  

  Fourth Grade students visit Swartley Art Center twice a week for 45 minute art classes.  Students continue to build on the importance of color, line and shape, pattern, design and composition, while exploring broader concepts of drawing, painting, collage, sculpture, printmaking, digital art and photography

   
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• Health and Wellness

  Instructor: Kim Franco

  
  The goal of the Health and Wellness program at Dwight-Englewood School is to educate students with the knowledge, skills, and confidence to make healthy lifestyle choices. In fourth grade the primary focus is on recognizing that needs change as growth and development occurs and students are able to explain the key concepts of each lesson.
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• Music

  Instructor: Mary Heveran

  
  

  Students attend music class twice a week for 45 minutes each time.  In addition to all music concepts and skills previously taught, students are now introduced to part singing, harmony, and countermelody.  

   
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• Science

  Instructor: Beth Lemire

  
  

  Fourth graders participate in a yearlong study of the Hudson River.  They start the year by examining attitudes they have about the river and what they may already know about the river.  From there the study is built.

   
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• Spanish

  Instructor: Ericka Collado

  
  

  In third, fourth and fifth grades, students meet three to four times a week in a FLES (Foreign Language Elementary School) setting with Doctora Collado.  

   
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• Technology

  Instructor: Christine Nicoloau

  
  

  The goal of the Lower School technology program is to develop activities and projects that make connections to the themes and curriculum that are covered in each grade level. Using a variety of apps and programs students learn the skills they need to move on to middle school and beyond.  The projects challenge students to think critically, organize their ideas, and present them using a variety of media.  Classrooms are equipped with smartboards and projection capabilities. There are several carts of iPads that are shared by classes and include a variety of apps that support the curriculum.

   
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