The fourth grade program at Milton Elementary School consists of 8 classrooms.  The types of classroom configurations in fourth grade consist of Multiage grouping, Looping, Vertical Team and Single Grade placements.

Multiage groupingrefers to "a class grouping in which students of different ages and identified age levels are grouped together in a single classroom for the purpose of providing effective instruction." The intention is to allow children of various ages and abilities to work together in the classroom.  Our multi-age teams do separate their students by grade for Literacy and Math due to our core programs in those areas.  Children in these classrooms do loop with their classroom teacher as well.
Looping is an educational practice in which a single graded class of children stays with a teacher for two or more years or grade levels. The children and the teacher remain together as the class is promoted. At the end of the second year in the pattern, the children move on to a new teacher while the looping teacher returns to the lower grade level to receive a new group of students.
A Vertical Team offers a structured four-year program for students entering first through fourth grade. The vertical team is a similar model to looping, except that the children stay together through fourth grade and will be working with a team of four teachers. The first and second grade classrooms function as single grade classrooms, and the third and fourth grade classrooms are a multi-age team.

Single Grade – This is a structure that has a group of children working with a classroom teacher for one year and then placed in another class the following year with a new teacher.  This model is the one most commonly found in schools.

The teachers currently teaching fourth grade are: 

Jennifer Cummings, Linda Dion, Erica Goodrich, Stephanie Hurley, Kristi Lombard, Carmel Osborne, Leslie Read and Julie Talley.