Reading/Language Arts

Instructional Goals for Students:

· Listen to, analyze and focus on topic

· Contribute to group discussion

· Speak clearly, use expression, to speak effectively

· Use cursive writing

· Write for a variety of purposes using the writing process (prewriting, drafting, revising, editing, and publishing).

* Personal Narrative

* Descriptive essay

* Persuasive paragraph

* Friendly Letter

· Write with a beginning, middle, and end

· Use invented/correct spelling, punctuation, grammar, capital letters in published writing

· Read a variety of literature genres including fantasy, adventure, poetry, fiction, biography, and informational text

· Use a variety of strategies to decode text and construct meaning

· Read with fluency for understanding

· Use the computer to create products integrated with instruction

Mathematics

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Instructional Goals for Students:

¨ Diagnose problems, develop and apply strategies, generate solutions, solve and test solutions to problems mentally

¨ Solve addition, subtraction, and multiplication problems with whole numbers

¨ Write number sentences for addition, subtraction, and multiplication

¨ Use estimation skills to round whole numbers and money to the nearest 10, 100, and dollar

¨ Use place value to round 2 and 3 digit numbers

¨ Understand and apply multiplication concepts as related to addition

¨ Understand and apply multiplication facts to multiples of ten

¨ Construct graphs (bar graphs, line graphs, picture graphs)

¨ Identify models of common shapes

¨ Determine and explore area, perimeter, volume, symmetry and congruency of geometric figures

¨ Use standard and metric units of measurement for length, weight and capacity

¨ Use measurement to solve real world problems

¨ Compare, identify, and write fractions for a given picture

¨ Use problem solving skills to relate fractions to real-world situations

¨ Determine the probability of an event as related to real life events

¨ Read, write and solve simple algebraic equations

Science

Instructional Goals for Students:

· Construct new scientific knowledge by generating scientific questions about the world based on observation

· Develop solutions to unfamiliar problems through reasoning, observation, and using the scientific method

· Manipulate and construct simple mechanical devices and explain how they work

· Reflect on scientific knowledge by developing an awareness of the need for making decisions scientifically through written expression and technology

· Explore the following topics:

o Organization of living things by comparing and classifying familiar organisms on the basis of observable physical characteristics

o Describe life cycles of familiar organisms by comparing and contrasting food, energy, and environmental needs

o Describe functions of selected seed plant parts

o Identify ecosystems and the familiar organisms as part of a food chain, food web, and the feeding relationships within the web

o Describe the basic requirements for all living things to maintain their existence and the common patterns of interdependences and relationships within

o Describe positive and negative effects of humans on the environment

o Describe and compare motion of objects in terms of speed and direction

o Use simple machines to make work easier and describe how forces are used to stop, or change the direction of moving objects

o Examine the hydrosphere by determining how water exists on earth in three states, and tracing the path that rainwater follows after it falls

o Describe the atmosphere, weather conditions and climates, seasonal changes in weather and appropriate safety precautions during severe weather

Social Studies

Instructional Goals for Students:

¨ Focus on the study of Michigan in the Great Lakes region as it relates to other United States regions. Learn information and skills that will allow the student to become active, productive and responsible citizens in their state, nation and world

¨ Understand information related to Michigan’s history, geography, civics and economics

¨ Examine environmental issues, economic influences, cultural diversity, and related Michigan issues and current events linking Michigan’s Great Lakes Region with other United States Regions

¨ Gather, interpret, analyze, summarize and evaluate information related to past and present Michigan issues

¨ Acquire, organize and present information in maps, graphs, charts and timelines, and interpret the meanings and significance of information

¨ Address various sides of public issues, both past and present

¨ Identify and discuss possible resolutions

¨ Develop respect for themselves, cultural similarities and differences among people and begin to understand the benefits and responsibilities of good citizenship

¨ Examine Michigan issues and make decisions as to how they can become involved in solving problems, and develop responsible group plans to address and potentially resolve issues