Mrs. Kathy Vehmeier, the fourth grade teacher, has been teaching at Immanuel since 1990. She has a B.A. in Elementary Education from Concordia University, Chicago (River Forest). She is married to Paul and has two step-children, Jacquie and Nathan. Mrs. Vehmeier helps teach the Wee Ones in Sunday School.
Forth Grade Curriculum Highlights:
Religion
- Chronological survey of Bible history that emphasizes Bible literacy and discipleship
- Increase in knowledge and faith
- expressing and sharing faith through worship and witnessing
Language Arts
- Nouns, verbs, adjectives, pronouns, and adverbs, and how to correctly use them
- Writing friendly and business letters
- Writing a personal narrative, fictional stories, a research paper and a persuasive essay.
- Reading and analyzing various types of literature
- Correct punctuation, capitalization and grammar
Spelling
- Spelling words using knowledge of patterns and phonics rules.
Math
- Mastery of addition and subtraction facts
- Practice with multiplication and division facts
- Practice with addition and subtraction of larger numbers
- Multiplication and division by one digit
- Introduction and practice basic measurement, time and geometry
- Multiplication by two digits
- Identify the ways that geographers gather and use information about the United States
Social Studies
- Introduction to the basic geography of the United States
- Identify the ways that geographers gather and use information about the United States
- Study the relationships of the people to their country, region and state
Handwriting
- Zaner-Bloser—review and master all lowercase and uppercase letters in manuscript and cursive
Science
Introduce the basic concepts of :
- Entymology (insects)
- Botany (plants)
- Ornythology (birds)
- Meteorology (weather)
- Geology (rocks and the earth)
- Oceanography
- Astronomy