STUDENTS
District Departments
OFFICE OF LEARNER SUPPORT SERVICES
OFFICE OF TEACHING AND LEARNING
Language, Reading and Literature, Composition, Media
Rules and roles in discussions
Gathering information for projects
Giving oral presentations
The meanings of Greek and Latin roots and suffixes and prefixes
Solving words using letter sounds, patterns, and syllabication
Using a dictionary and thesaurus
Adapting language to persuade, explain, or seek information
Rhyme, rhythm, repetition, similes, and sensory details in poems
Identifying the use of language: puns, figurative language, and idioms
Nouns, verbs, adjectives and adverbs
Compound and complex sentence structure
New vocabulary from other languages. antonyms, synonyms, and multiple meaning words
Analyzing literature using various elements to identify theme, character traits, the speaker, and literary devices to make predictions
Evaluating setting, characters, and events
Locating facts that answer the reader’s questions
Characteristics of various genre (traditional literature, historical novels, informational text short stories, myth, and folktales)
Using charts and maps to comprehend text
Comprehend text using a variety of skills and strategies, predicting, text connections, summarizing, clarifying, sequence, cause and effect
The components of composition writing: organization, drafting, revising, editing and publishing
Applying correct mechanics and punctuation
Writing stories, poems, personal narrative, friendly letters, and directions using adequate supportive details
Cursive writing
Locating continents, oceans, 5 major rivers and mountain ranges on maps and globes
Maps and globes while studying North American.
US states, capitals, and major cities and their climate, physical features, and natural resources
supply and demand
Historical landmarks
Immigration, indigenous groups, and the rights and responsibilities of citizens
Mexico and Canada
Characteristics of living things (plants and animals)
Structures, functions and adaptations of plants and animals
Physical Science: properties of objects and materials, forms of energy, electrical, magnetic, sound and lights
Simple machines
Number Sense, Patterns and Relations, Geometry and Measurement, Data Analysis, Statistics and Probability
Reading , writing, and comparing numbers to 100,000
Common fractions, mixed numbers (1 ½,) equivalent fractions, mixed numbers, decimals, and ordering fractions
Generating equivalent forms of common decimals and fractions
Reading , naming, and writing decimals between 0 and 1 up to the hundredths
Recognizing classes to which numbers may belong, (odd, even, factors, multiples of a number and square numbers.
Solving word problems
The use of inverse operation in multiplication and division
Selecting, using and explaining the communicative, associative and identity properties of operations on whole numbers in problems
Multiplication and division facts to 12
Adding and subtracting to 5 digits
Multiplying 3- digit numbers by 2- digit numbers
Dividing a 3-digit number by 1 digit using standard algorithm
Rounding whole numbers to 100,000
Use a variety of strategies to estimate
Creating, describing, and extending patterns including multiplication patterns
Identifying angles
Reading a graph using ordered pairs of numbers, letters and points
Describing and applying techniques such as rotations, turns and slides, etc.
Predicting and validating the results of folding, combining 2 and 3 dimensional shapes
Simple unit conversions 12 inches = one foot
Telling time to the minute and elapsed time
Estimating and finding the area and perimeter of regular and irregular shape
Customary and metric measurement (inch, centimeter)
Collecting organizing, displaying and analyzing data
Stating, classifying, and listing outcomes of probability
Students practice basic skills required for participation in a variety of lead-up games and sports. In addition, physical fitness, good sportsmanship, and proper social interactions are emphasized.
All students will learn octaves, time signatures, vocal parts: bass, alto, tenor, and soprano. Students will be introduced to cultural songs from Europe , Mexico , and Canada while learning how to play the recorder.
Students should have sufficient knowledge of art vocabulary and an understanding of the safe use of materials. They will have knowledge of 2 and 3 dimensional shapes, form pattern, symmetry, and composition. They can copy objects semi-realistically. They will explain the process and selection of their work for an exhibit.
Additional studies of genre will include short stories and novels. Students will continue to learn strategies to gather organize, and analyze information for research. The internet will be used to gain information.