Reading/Language Arts

Instructional Goals for Students:

· Listen for main ideas and details to summarize

· Speak clearly to present personal views and communicate ideas

· Use cursive writing

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

* Descriptive essay

* Personal narrative

* Persuasive essay

· Use correct spelling, punctuation, grammar, and capital letters in published work

· Read a variety of literature including fantasy, mystery, poetry, biography, historical fiction, and non-fiction

· Read for comprehension using a variety of strategies (context clues, story maps, graphic organizers)

· Read with fluency

· Use the computer to create presentations

Mathematics

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Instructional Goals for Students:

· Use different ways to solve problems (make a table, guess and check, work backwards, use a pattern, make an organized list, make a picture or a diagram)

· Use estimation skills with whole numbers, fractions, decimals and measurement

· Solve addition, subtraction, multiplication, and division problems with whole numbers and decimals

· Compute mean, median, range and mode from real life situations

· Identify and use equivalent fractions, mixed numbers and improper fractions

· Relate and solve addition, subtraction and multiplication of fractions to real world events

· Write fractions as decimals, and decimals as percents

· Graph and analyze information using bar graphs, pictographs, and line graphs

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

· Explore basic geometric ideas: points, lines, line segments, rays, parallel lines, intersecting lines, circles, symmetry, congruent and similar figures

· Use and apply formulas for perimeter and area, construct and measure angles, identify polygons and polyhedrons

· Conduct probability experiments and express events in fraction form

· Write and evaluate simple algebraic equations

Science

Instructional Goals for Students:

· Construct new scientific knowledge by generating scientific questions, designing and conducting simple investigations, using appropriate measurement devices

· Reflect on scientific knowledge to evaluate the strengths and weaknesses of claims, arguments, or data

· Explore the following topics:

o Describe cells as living things

o Organize living things based on their structure

o Describe the life cycle of a flowering plant and evidence that plants make and store food

o Describe patterns of relationships in ecosystems

o Describe ways in which humans alter the environment

o Describe how things around us move and explain why things move as they do; demonstrate and explain how we control the motion of objects; and relate motion to energy and energy conversions

o Describe the forces exerted by magnets, electrically charged objects, and gravity

o Explain how sound travels, how light helps to see, and how waves transmit energy

o Describe various forms that water takes on the earth’s surface and conditions under which they exist

o Describe the origins of pollution in the hydrosphere

o Describe the atmosphere, weather changes, and the water cycle

o Describe health effects of polluted air

Social Studies

Instructional Goals for Students:

· Place major events and personalities in the history of the United States in chronological order from the arrival of the earliest inhabitants through the development of the Constitution

· Discover how geography influences the development of our country

· Expand map-reading skills and improve ability to interpret tables, charts, diagrams, and graphs using various kinds of data about the United States

· Demonstrate the skills of drawing inferences, understanding cause and effect, comparing and contrasting, and distinguishing between fact and opinion

· Recognize the individual’s right to express various points of view emphasizing constitutional rights and their extension to all people over time

· Acknowledge the importance of cultural diversity in the development of our country by exploring freedoms guaranteed in the Bill of Rights

· Expand their appreciation for the role of law in a democracy and its implication for responsible citizenship

· Address issues and current events through discussion and written expression of reasoned positions supported by core democratic values, data and prior social studies knowledge

· Understand basic functions of an economic system by exploring common terms – natural resources, human capital, consumers, producers, distributors, opportunity costs, scarcity, role of business and industry, and international trade