• Understand the reading process, purposes for reading, and the author’s purpose for writing.
• Increase reading comprehension through the inclusion of diverse written texts in selected/assigned readings.   The ability to use a variety of word identification strategies, develop extensive vocabulary, retell important events in stories in the proper sequence, and produce summaries of text selections will aid comprehension. See the attached sheet for ideas and questions to be used to enable the highest levels of comprehension.  
• Apply critical thinking skills in order to analyze diverse written texts.  Student is expected to determine important ideas, causes and effects, make predictions, draw conclusions, compare and contrast, and distinguish fact from opinion by using a variety of strategies.
• Understand and demonstrate the link between reading and writing.
• Understand and demonstrate the types of writing: narrative, persuasive, expository, and descriptive.
• Increase writing skills by producing work that is grammatically correct and mechanically sound.  Sentence structure will include proper punctuation, capitalization, spelling conventions, and parts of speech. Cursive writing will also be learned.
• Develop dictionary skills and use of other reference materials.
• Conduct research on assigned topics and write up reports.

Math

Students will:

• Demonstrate an understanding of numbers, operations, and quantitative reasoning. 
• Student is expected to use addition, subtraction, multiplication, and division to solve problems using whole numbers at least through 999,999.
• Use number sentences to record solutions.
• Understand Math vocabulary.
• Analyze and solve word problems.
• Demonstrate knowledge of place value and the various ways of representing numbers.
• Estimate sums and differences by rounding to the nearest ten or hundred.
• Demonstrate an understanding of time and schedules, money, patterns, relationships between number systems (fact families), spatial reasoning, geometrical concepts, fractions, and units of measurement.

Science

Students will demonstrate an understanding of:

• The Solar System
• Energy and its Sources
• Sound
• The Water Cycle
• Weather & Climate
• Rocks & Soil
• Plants & Animals and their interaction; Animal Habitats
• Magnets and Electricity
• States of Matter

Social Studies

Students will:

• Demonstrate a knowledge of Social Studies concepts including

-    the different types of communities

-         shelters of animals and people (past and present)

-         communication

-         transportation (past and present)

-         sources of food & clothing

-         government  

-         flat maps & globe skills 

-         resources and their conservation  

Students are expected to keep themselves apprised of current events that are age appropriate for discussion.

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