Activities in these areas will include:

•  Reading a wide range of stories and describing how a story teaches a lesson 

•  Describing characters in a story and how their actions contributed to events 

•  Reading texts about history, social studies, or science and answering questions about what they learned 

•  Referring to information from illustrations such as maps or pictures as well as the words in a text to support their answers

 •  Learning the rules of spoken and written English 

•  Learning and using new words, including words related to specific subjects (such as science words) 

•  Participating in class discussions by listening, asking questions, sharing ideas, and building on the ideas of others

 •  Giving a class presentation on a topic or telling a story using relevant facts and details and speaking clearly

•  Writing stories with dialogue and descriptions of character’s actions, thoughts, and feelings 

•  Gathering information from books, articles, and online sources to build understanding of a topic

 •  Writing research or opinion papers over extended periods of time 

Words Their Way™ is a curricular approach to phonics, vocabulary, and spelling instruction for students in kindergarten through eighth grade. The program is implemented as a supplemental curriculum in the district and aims to provide a practical way to study words with students. The purpose of word study (which involves examining, manipulating, comparing, and categorizing words) is to reveal logic and consistencies within written language and to help students achieve mastery in recognizing, spelling, and defining specific words.

Wonders, a comprehensive literacy curriculum, is designed to meet the challenges of today’s classroom and reach all learners. A wealth of research-based print and digital resources provide unmatched support for building strong literacy foundations, accessing complex fiction and nonfiction texts, writing to sources, and building social emotional learning skills. Whether in the core classroom, an English language learner, or benefiting from intervention support, Wonders provides students equity of access to rich texts and rigorous instruction.

Activities in these areas will include:

•  Understanding and explaining what it means to multiply or divide numbers

•  Multiplying all one-digit numbers from memory (knowing their times table) 

•  Multiplying one-digit numbers by multiples of 10 (such as 20, 30, 40) 

•  Solving two-step word problems using addition, subtraction, multiplication, and division

•  Understanding the concept of area 

•  Relating the measurement of area to multiplication and division 

•  Understanding fractions as numbers 

•  Understanding and identifying a fraction as a number on a number line 

•  Comparing the size of two fractions 

•  Expressing whole numbers as fractions and identifying fractions that are equal to whole numbers (for example, recognizing that 3⁄ 1 and 3 are the same number) 

•  Measuring weights and volumes and solving word problems involving these measurements

•  Representing and interpreting data 

Students will experience activities that ensure a progression of knowledge in McGraw-Hill My Math curriculum materials throughout kindergarten to fifth grade.  This framework is a foundation for rigorous standards, resulting in a program that provides the conceptual understanding, key areas of focus, and connection to prior concepts and skills for each grade.

Students will learn:

• how interactions between people benefit communities

• how groups of people make rules to create responsibilities and protect freedoms, 

• compare procedures for making decisions at school and in the community, 

• describe how people have tried to improve their communities over time, 

• locate major landforms and bodies of water on a map, 

• compare how people modify and adapt to the environment and culture in our community to other places,

• show how consumption of products connects people to distant places, 

• compare the goods and services that people in the local community produce,

• generate examples of the goods and services that governments provide, describe the role of banks and other financial institutions in an economy,

• explain that when people borrow, they receive something of value now and agree to prepay the lender over time, 

• create and use a chronological sequence of events,

• describe how significant people, events and developments have shaped their own community and region, 

• identify artifacts and documents as either primary or secondary sources of historical data

To pursue a lifetime of healthful physical activity, a physically literate individual: 

• Has learned the skills necessary to participate in a variety of physical activities. 

• Knows the implications and the benefits of involvement in various types of physical activities.

• Participates regularly in physical activity. 

• Is physically fit. 

• Values physical activity and its contributions to a healthful lifestyle

Physical Development and Health standards are embedded into the following 3rd-5th grade band of expectations: 

• Acquire movement and motor skills and understand concepts necessary to engage in moderate to vigorous physical activity.

• Achieve and maintain a health-enhancing level of physical fitness based upon continual self-assessment.

• Develop skills necessary to become a successful member of a team by working with others during physical activity.

• Understand principles of health promotion and the prevention and treatment of illness and injury.

• Understand human body systems and factors that influence growth and development.

• Promote and enhance health and well-being through the use of effective communication and decision-making skills.