Syllabus

Reading, Writing and ELA

•1st Quarter: Main Idea, Summarizing, Inferences, Comprehension, Genre, Author’s Viewpoint, Sentences, Nouns, Pronouns

•2nd Quarter: Making Generalization, Verbs, Adjectives

•3rd Quarter: Dictionary Skills, Proper Nouns, Dialogues

•4th Quarter: Compare/Contrast, Fantasy/Realism, Adverbs

•Novel Studies: Sign of Beaver, Pocahontas, Winter of Red Snow, Toliver's Secret, Across the Wide and Lonesome Prairie

•Writing: Narratives, Opinion, Informational, Persuasive, Text-Dependent Analysis

Mathematics

•1^st Quarter: Place Value with Addition and Subtraction, Multiplication and Division Strategies, Composing and Decomposing Fractions for Adding and Subtracting, Exploring Factors and Multiples

•2^nd Quarter: Fraction Equivalence and Comparison, Measurement Conversions, Multiplicative Comparison, Measurement Using Operations

•3^rd Quarter: Addition and Subtraction with Fractions, Angle Measurement, Multiplying Fractions and Whole Numbers, Comparing Decimal Fractions

•4^th Quarter: 2D shapes, Problem Solving with Whole Numbers

Social Studies

•1^st Quarter: First Americans, Exploration of the New World

•2^nd Quarter: Colonial America, Conflict in the Colonies, The American Revolution

•3^rd Quarter: A New Government, Westward Expansion

•4^th Quarter: Civil War

Science

•1^st Quarter: Forms of Energy: Light and Sound

•2^nd Quarter: Astronomy

•3^rd Quarter: Organisms and their Environment

•4^th Quarter: Weather