Fourth-year primary class

• Revising points learned in the third-year primary class
• Reading aloud daily while learning to respect punctuation and liaisons
• Silent reading guided by worksheets

• Distinguishing publications by text type (Illustrated book, informative work, comic strip, etc.)
• Recognising a book’s particularities (title, author, illustrator, version, summary, etc.)
• Categorising works (by subject, author, version, collection, etc.)
• Discovering emotions felt upon reading or listening to a book (fear, laughter, sadness, etc.)
• Identifying links with lived experience

• Writing a text for a recipient, in a group or individually

• Memorising and reciting poems

• Agreement between nouns, verbs and adjectives
• Dictation prepared in advance (with a given text) and half-prepared in advance (with known words)

• First-group verbs
• Auxiliary verbs ‘to be’ (être) and ‘to have’ (avoir)
• Verb ‘to go’ (aller)
• Tenses studied: present indicative and imperfect

• Learning the alphabetical order and categorising words
• Verbs, nouns and their determiners, pronouns
• Proper nouns and common nouns of people, animals and objects (gender and number)
• Subject groups
• Adjectives

• Learning to spell words from everyday life
• Widening vocabulary through reading and free, spoken and written expression
• Initial exercises in looking up words in a dictionary

• Lower-case and upper-case letters, regular exercises based on models

• Studying numbers up to 999
• Units, tens and hundreds; odd and even numbers
• Additions and subtractions in lines
• Additions, subtractions and multiplications in columns, without carrying over
• Additions and multiplications in columns, carrying over
• Multiplication tables for 2, 3, 4, 5 and 6
• Problem-solving for learning how to reason
• Problem-solving for understanding a number and giving it value
• Problem-solving for understanding additions and multiplications

• Exploring and organising space
• Geometric figures and transformations on a plane
• Measurements

• Learning the English language through listening, play, and spoken and written expression Using Level 1 of the ‘Kid’s Box’ audiovisual method (listening, reading, writing and speaking)
• Special lessons for English-speaking pupils using the ‘Nelson English’ method (developing fiction/non-fiction skills and spelling)

Lessons are given in half-groups by a specialist teacher who is a native English-speaker.

• Learning about natural science (physical and chemical phenomena, wildlife and plant biology) through observation and experiments

• Cultivating an appreciation of artistic activities, stimulating pupils’ creativity and imagination
• Trying out a wide range of techniques: drawing, painting, collage, cutting up, putting together, printing techniques, modelling, etc.
• Using a wide range of materials: paper, cardboard, soil, fabrics, plaster, natural material, etc.
• Introducing art: studying culture by associating names, works of artists, styles and readings
• Making objects and gifts for different events (Christmas, Mother’s Day, etc.)

Teachers use artistic activities to introduce pupils to specific vocabulary relating to their creations

• Physical condition (endurance, running, muscle tone)
• Agility and coordination using various equipment and resources (small and large balls, pupil’s own body, etc.)
• Cooperative and adversarial games
• Experimenting with the body (jumping, climbing, throwing, etc.)

• From Abraham to Joseph: the era of patriarchs