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Language Arts

• Through the literary elements of fiction, traditional literature, poetry, biography and non-fiction children will experience a wide range of instructional activities in listening, reading, writing, discussing and/or speaking.

Reading

• Construct meaning from multiple sources
• Apply word analysis skills for comprehension
• Make connections to themselves, their experiences and books
• Predict, recall and summarize stories, information and experiences
• Analyze characterization, setting, plot, problem/solution, climax/resolution and theme
• Make and support inferences and form interpretations about main themes and topics
• Anticipate by previewing, predicting, and asking questions
• Determine cause and effect relationships and use text to summarize
• Make inferences regarding motives of characters and consequences of their actions
• Map out plot and character development in literary texts
• Infer author's purpose and character's intent
• Expand vocabulary and multiple word meanings
• Develop a passion for reading
• Connect information presented in tables, maps and charts to text
• Reflect in oral and written form on what has been learned after reading
• Expand and apply a repertoire of reading strategies
• Read independently

Listening and Speaking

• Speak effectively using language appropriate to situation and audience
• Communicate effectively expressing ideas and feelings
• Listen effectively to formal and informal speakers
• Acquire meaning by sequencing ideas, making inferences, identifying purpose and point of view
• Use eye contact and visual aids for oral presentations

Writing

• Use cursive handwriting skills
• Compose well-organized writing for specific purposes
• Communicate ideas in writing
• Use varied sentence structure and expand with descriptive words
• Consider word choice
• Demonstrate logical flow and sequence of ideas
• Develop topic with facts, details, examples, and explanations
• Write developed topic sentence
• Use time order transitions and paragraphs (first, the next day, in summer)
• Use logical and time order transitions between and within paragraphs
• Support ideas with specific details and second order support
• Provide support and elaboration with details
• Use appropriate parts of speech, correct grammar, spelling, capitalization and punctuation
• Demonstrate correct language mechanics
• Write independently

Mathematics

• Investigate the multiplication of whole numbers and decimals
• Investigate operations and relationships involving fractions and mixed numbers using manipulatives and in problem solving situations
• Continue to investigate patterns in multiplication/division/multiples/products/factors with paper and pencil, calculator, and computer software
• Investigate patterns in multiples and factors with number theory and geometry
• Investigate concepts of parallel and perpendicular lines and faces through physical objects and materials
• Continue to investigate, construct, and draw two dimensional polygons, noting convex and non-convex figures, and investigate properties of three dimensional shapes
• Measure lengths using inches, feet, yards, millimeters, centimeters, decimeters and meters
• Estimate the amount of time needed to do various tasks with emphasis of five minute intervals  and elapsed time of hours and minutes

Science

• Identify body parts and describe how they work together as a system
• Describe the cause and effect relationship of input/output to a system
• Build models to represent solids, liquids and gases
• Identify physical and chemical changes
• Describe properties of light and sound
• Describe or relate patterns of movement in the night sky
• Relate patterns of movement to position of sun, moon, and earth within a system.
• Use weather instruments to measure and record data; predict patterns of weather
• Compare variability of weather and describe factors that impact change
• Formulate questions, collect data, prepare charts, produce and communicate explanation
• Describe and assess the interrelationship between people, technology, and the environment
• Use tools of technology and the design process

Social Studies

• Learn about early people of the Western Hemisphere
• Learn about exploration, colonization, growth and expansion of European settlements in North America
• Understand the development and operation of the US Government
• Understand the inception of slavery and Emancipation Proclamation as it relates to the study of the Civil War
• Understand the growth and expansion of the United States
• Understand the duties, rights and responsibilities of a United States citizen
• Celebrate the high points of United States history
•  Read time lines, circle graphs and historical maps

World Languages

• Comprehend written classroom directions, illustrated stories, gestures and body language often used in everyday interaction in the target language
• Follow instructions in the target language
• Pose questions spontaneously in structured situations
• Produce language using proper pronunciation, intonation and inflection.
• Decode new vocabulary
• Write on familiar topics
• Use maps, charts, digital images, graphs and other geographic representations to describe and discuss the countries where the target language is spoken
• Identify products that are from the countries where the target language is spoken and that are found in the United States economy
• Use the target language to participate in and/or describe games, dances and sports
• Use the target language to describe activities and characteristics of selected occupations and work places

Physical Education/Wellness

• Perform a variety of motor and social skills necessary to successfully participate in individual  and team sports and leisure activities and evaluate the effects on physical and mental health through a personal exercise and leisure activity plan
• Maintain body control while participating in a variety of activities requiring starting, stopping, and changing directions and levels and evaluate the positive effects of these activities
• Develop and execute a fitness plan and assess personal fitness
• Recognize the affective benefits derived from regular participation in physical activity

Health

• Classify major body parts and functions of the body systems
• Compare and contrast effects of healthy/unhealthy life styles
• Summarize the principles of good nutrition, exercise and rest
• Promote healthy body and self-concept
• Implement a personal exercise and activity plan
• Demonstrate basic procedures for responding to emergency and life safety issues

General Music
Students will have instructional and experiential activities in:

• Interactive listening process involving music perception, cognition, analysis, and evaluation resulting in aesthetic awareness
• Personal experiential interaction with music through singing, playing, performing, and moving
• Creative composition/arranging for organized sound designed to express feelings
• Spontaneous creation of original music
• Formal/constructive elements of music theory, vocabulary, syntax, and symbolic representations  of music
• Historical, social and cultural context for musical insight

Instrumental Music
Students selecting instrumental music instruction will:

• Recognize and perform note values
• Demonstrate understanding and perform time signatures
• Identify through use of staff and clef, letter names of pitches in current playing range and function of key signatures
• Identify and understand function of sharp, flat, natural sign, repeat sign, first/second ending markings, and multiple measure rests
• Discern basic percussion nomenclature on percussion music as related to percussion instruments
• Demonstrate understanding of functions of ties, slurs, phrase markings, bow technique, knowledge of instrument care and maintenance, posture, sitting, standing, finger positions, appropriate embouchure, proper inhalation and exhalation for chromatic scales concert pitch, and conducting patterns.
• Identify and execute dynamics: p, mp, mf, f
• Perform scales (concert pitch)

Fine Arts

• Recognize, identify, and demonstrate an understanding of the sensory elements and organizational principles of design as well as the expressive qualities of the visual arts
• Recognize, identify, and demonstrate the basic use of materials and tools in order to understand how works of art are produced.
• Create individual works of visual art
• Understand that works of art shape, reflect and play a role in societies, cultures, and civilizations, past and present