Year 4 (ages 9 to 10)

In Year 4, your child moves into Form II in the Charlotte Mason curriculum. They begin written narration and start a few new subjects such as dictation, composition, grammar, citizenship, Shakespeare and French History.

Browse our selection of open-and-go lesson plans for this age group below. More plans will be added on an ongoing basis.

Year 4 subjects and book lists:

Morning Reflections and Sunday Reading

FOR CHRISTIANS:

The Bible for School and Home, by Dr J. Paterson Smyth: Volume I - The Book of Genesis & Volume VII - St Matthew's Gospel of the Kingdom
Any Bible atlas from Bookshop.org
Hymns by John Keble
Helps to the Study of the Bible by Oxford University Press

ANY FAITH:

Bengali Schooldays by DS Batley
The History of the Life and Voyages of Christopher Columbus by Washington Irving

Child should start keeping a Book of Mottoes.

NON-CHRISTIANS:

Either replace with prayers and readings of your own faith, or use the time for some meditation, breathwork and journaling

English (Writing, Dictation, Composition, Grammar)

Writing:

Transcribe 2 lines from Shakespeare play each day using this card as a model.

Dictation:

Prepare two pages each week from Reading books, then write one dictated paragraph.

Composition:

Daily oral narrations of Reading books. One written narration of a paragraph every two weeks.

Grammar:

First Grammar Lessons by Charlotte Mason

English (Recitations)

Learn to recite the following over the year:

FOR CHRISTIANS:

3 Psalms and 6 x 12 verse passages from King James Bible
6 hymns from Hymns by John Keble.

ANY FAITH:

1 scene from Shakespeare play
2 x 40 line poems from either of the following:
- A poetry anthology by Alfred Lord Tennyson.
- A poetry anthology by Longfellow

NON-CHRISTIANS:

Replace the Psalm and Bible passage recitations with readings from your own faith or from your child's Reading books. Replace hymns with songs from your own faith or secular songs.

Child to make memory maps

Science & Natural History

Between the Lines Year 4 Science and Nature Study Lesson Plans
Countryside Rambles, by WS Furneaux
A selection of British field guides on birds, animals and plants from Bookshop.org
Life and her Children (A. Buckley)
The Sciences (E. Holden)
Madam How and Lady Why (Rev. C. Kingsley)

Picture Study

Between the Lines Picture Study Lesson Plans

Mathematics (Arithmetic)

Lesson plans coming soon

Number Stories of Long Ago by D.E. Smith

Foreign Languages

In Year 4, your child will continue with just one foreign language (Charlotte Mason recommended French) with Latin being added from Year 5. However feel free to replace this with a different foreign language relevant to your culture.

We recommend using the resources listed at Mason's Living Languages: French – Mason's living languages (masonslivinglanguages.com).