Curriculum

Math

  • Addition and Subtraction with Fractions

  • Addition and Subtraction with Decimals

  • Multiplication and Division with Fractions

  • Multiplication with Whole Numbers and Decimals

  • Division with Whole Numbers and Decimals

  • Area and Volume

  • Operations and Word Problems

  • Algebra, Patterns, and Coordinate Planes

  • Measurement and Data


ELA (Reading and Writing)

**These units come from the into reading resource**

  1. Inventors at work

  • What kind of circumstances push people to create new inventions?

  • Learning Mindset: Trying Again

  • Expository Writing

  1. What a Story

  • How does genre affect the way a story is told?

  • Learning Mindset: Wonder

  • Reading focus on Story Elements

  • Writing a story

  1. Natural Disasters

  • How can learning about natural disasters make us safer?

  • Learning Mindset: Seeking Challenges

  • Writing Persuasive Essays

  1. Wild West

  • What character traits were needed in people who settled in the west?

  • Learning Mindset: Seeking Challenges

  • Persuasive Writing

  1. Project Earth

  • How can caring for Earth and its living things improve life now and in the future?

  • Learning Mindset: Setting Goals

  • Writing Editorials

  1. Art For Everyone

  • How do different art forms affect people in different ways?

  • Learning Mindset: Belonging

  • Writing Personal Narratives

  1. Above, Below, and Beyond!

  • What role does curiosity play in exploration?

  • Learning Mindset: Questioning

  • Research Report

  1. A New Home

  • How do people adapt to new experiences and make a new place home?

  • Learning Mindset: Growth Mindset

  • Writing Lyrical Poems

  1. Unexpected, Unexplained

  • What makes something mysterious, and what drives people to solve mysteries?

  • Learning Mindset: Problem Solving

  • Writing an Imaginative Story

  1. The Lives of Animals

  • What can we learn about ourselves by observing and interacting with animals?

  • Learning Mindset: Noticing

  • Writing a Letter to the Editor

  1. Genre Study: Nonfiction

  • What are the characteristics of informational, narrative nonfiction, and persuasive text?

  • Learning Mindset: Self-Reflection

  • Writing a Realistic Story

  1. Genre Study: Fiction

  • What are the characteristics of realistic fiction, play, and mystery?

  • Learning Mindset: Resilience

  • Writing a Narrative Poem

Science

  • Parts and Wholes: Mixtures

  • Systems: Weather

  • Systems: Earth

  • Systems: Organisms

  • Systems: Human

  • Growing and Changing

Social Studies

  • Changing Face of North America: Emergence of a New World Society

  • American Revolution

  • The United States Constitution

  • Services of Financial Institutions