4th Grade - Mrs. Vosti

I began my teaching career at St. Anne’s Catholic School many years ago as the First Grade Aide.  Those memorable days inspired me to return to college and further my education.  I graduated from California State University, Stanislaus and began teaching a combination 5^th/6^th grade class at St. Gertrude’s Catholic School in Stockton.  I soon returned to St. Anne’s Catholic School and began teaching Fourth Grade.

I must tell you that I grew up in the Central Valley as a farmer’s daughter.  I spent much of my time enjoying all of the goodness provided by our Great Valley such as:  running up and down corn fields, long summer days, boating on the Delta, hiking around Lake Tahoe, and backpacking in the Emigrant Wilderness.  How very blessed we are to live and study in the very richness provided by our Great Central Valley.  Nowadays, I enjoy caring for my family and embracing my Fourth Grade St. Anne’s families.

In Fourth Grade children take on new types of work and social experiences.  This is the year that children are being introduced to organizational skills and long-term planning strategies necessary to complete school assignments/projects.  In addition, there is more collaboration with their peers on group projects.  Just a few highlights:

• Within Language and Literacy, students find books, books, and more books that fill their backpacks.  In order for a child to become a confident reader, they must read.  In Fourth, students love the new genres such as legends, fantasy and adventure that are introduced to them.   
• In addition, Fourth Graders continue to research with traditional tools such as dictionaries, encyclopedias, Internet, and the library.  However, now the research process goes beyond gathering information.  Students begin to organize the information they have gathered into paragraphs, essays, projects, and presentations.  Eventually, they begin to develop their own writing style. 
• In Math, Fourth Graders read, write, compare, add, subtract, multiply and divide with very large whole numbers.  They do more equations with fractions and learn about decimals, prime and composite numbers.  They explore geometry formulas for determining perimeter and area.  Overall, the experience is to “Love Numbers!” 
• Social Studies, Social Studies, Social Studies – Fourth Graders love studying California history!  As a class, we take several fieldtrips throughout the school year with the highlight of spending a day touring two California Missions. 
• Science takes Fourth Graders through a journey of complex systems such as the solar system and cells.

Needless to say, I love teaching Fourth Grade!  I get to watch children grow and become confident learners.  Furthermore, I love teaching Fourth Grade at St. Anne’s School because not only do I get to watch children grow academically, but I watch them grow and embrace their faith as well.