Curriculum

Homework

It is a requirement that students read for at least 20-30 minutes each night. They will be coming home each day with an assignment notebook that will have any other assignments that need to be completed listed. Make sure that they bring this to and from school each day to stay organized.

Curriculum

ELA

Fiction

Determine a theme of a story, drama, or poem from details in the text, including how characters in a story or drama respond to challenges or how the speaker in a poem reflects upon a topic; summarize the text.

Compare and contrast two or more characters, settings, or events in a story or drama, drawing on specific details in the text.

By the end of the year, read and comprehend literature and other texts including stories, dramas, and poetry proficiently and independently at grade level.

Writing and Language

Produce clear and coherent narrative writing that is appropriate to the task, purpose, and audience.

Produce clear and coherent informative writing that is appropriate to the task, purpose, and audience.

Produce clear and coherent opinion writing that is appropriate to the task, purpose, and audience.

Nonfiction

Determine two or more main ideas of a text and explain how they are supported by key details; summarize the text.

By the end of the year, read and comprehend nonfiction and other texts including stories, dramas, and poetry proficiently and independently at grade level.

Presenting Orally

Report on a topic or text or present an opinion, sequencing ideas logically and using appropriate facts and relevant details to support main ideas or themes; avoid olagarism by identifying sources; speak clearly at an understandable pace.

Math

Operations Base Ten

Recognize and be able to explain the value of a digit in any number.

Read and write decimals to the thousandths.

Compare and order decimals to the thousandths.

Use place value understanding to round decimals.

Add, subtract, multiply, and divide decimals to the hundredths.

Fluently multiply multi-digit whole numbers.

Fluently divide multi-digit whole numbers.

Operations and Fractions

Add and subtract fractions with unlike denominators in word problems.

Multiply fractions and mixed numbers in word problems.

Divide unit fractions by whole numbers and whole numbers by unit fractions in word problems.

Measurement and Data

Find the volume of complex figures.

Social Studies

Behavioral Science

Assess the role that human behaviors and cultures play in the development of social endeavors.

Economics

Evaluate government decisions and their impact on individuals, businesses, markets, and resources.

Geography

Use geography tools and ways of thinking to analyze the world.

History

Use historical evidence for determining cause and effect.

Political Science

Examine and interpret rights, privileges, and responsibilities in society.

Science

Life Science

Support an argument that plants get the materials they need to grow chiefly from air and water. Develop a model to describe the movement of matter among plants, decomposers, and the environment.

Earth Science

Represent data in graphical displays to reveal patterns of daily changes in length and direction of shadows, day and night, and the seasonal appearance of some stars in the sky.

Physical Science

Conduct an investigation to determine whether the mixing of two or more substances results in a new substance.

Make observations and measurements to identify materials based on their properties.