3-5 Curriculum

Grades 3rd-5th: 

BPS provides the EL Education K-5 Language Arts curriculum for third, fourth, and fifth grades which is a standards-based core literacy program that engages teachers and students through compelling, real world content.

English Language Arts: (https://curriculum.eleducation.org/overview)

• 3rd Grade: Overcoming Learning Challenges Near and Far; Adaptations and the Wide World of Frogs; Exploring Literary Classics; Water Around the World

• 4th Grade: Poetry, Poets, and Becoming Writers; Animal Defense Mechanisms; The American Revolution; Responding to Inequality: Ratifying the 19th Amendment

• 5th Grade: Stories of Human Rights; Biodiversity in the Rainforest; Athlete Leaders of Social Change; The Impact of Natural Disasters

Math: (https://investigations.terc.edu/the-curriculum/)

• 3rd Grade: Understanding Equal Groups; Graphs and Line Plots; Travel Stories and Collections; Perimeter, Area, and Polygons; Cube Patterns, Arrays, and Multiples of 10; Fair Shares and Fractions on Number Lines; How Many Miles?; Larger Numbers and Multi-Step Problems

• 4th Grade: Arrays, Factors, and Multiplicative Comparison; Generating and Representing Measurement Data; Multiple Towers and Cluster Problems; Measuring and Classifying Shapes; Large Numbers and Landmarks; Fraction Cards and Decimal Grids; How Many Packages and Groups?; Penny Jars and Towers

• 5th Grade: Puzzles, Clusters, and Towers; Prisms and Solids; Rectangles, Clocks, and Tracks; How Many People and Teams?; Temperature, Height, and Growth; Between 0 and 1; Races, Arrays, and Grids; Properties of Polygons

Science: (https://curriculum.eleducation.org/)

• 3rd Grade: Constructing Explanations and Arguments: Inheritance, Variation, and Frog Ponds

• 4th Grade: Engaging in Argument: Structure and Function in Terrestrial Animals and Plants

• 5th Grade: The Cycle of Matter and Energy In Healthy Ecosystems