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English-Language Arts

The English-Language Arts curriculum emphasizes the integration of reading, writing, spelling, listening, and speaking skills.

Reading Skills:

• Sequencing, generalizing, making judgments, recognizing author's purpose, fact and opinion, drawing conclusions

• Identifying parts of a book, plot, character, setting, theme, text structure, summarization

• Compare and contrast, recognize main idea and supporting details, predicting

• Narrative writing, research process, encyclopedia

• Historical fiction, fantasy, imagery, time lines, drama, visualizing

Writing:

• D'Nealian cursive handwriting

• Punctuation and spelling

• Sentence structure and paragraph structure

• Showing clarity of thought through journal writing, creative writing, and report writing

• Writing sentences (compound sentences, compound subjects and predicates, run-on sentences)

• Identifying subject and predicates

• Nouns (singular/plural, common/proper, possessive)

• Verbs (main verbs, helping verbs, verb tense, irregular verbs)

• Pronouns (possessive pronouns, contractions, homophones)

• Adjectives and adverbs

• Prepositions

Spelling:

• Weekly lists

• Above level bonus words

• Weekly spelling words are reinforced with the Orchard Program during Computer class

Listening:

• Listen attentively

• Use listening skills to recall main ideas, significant details, compare and contrast ideas, and arrive at conclusions

Speaking:

• Reading aloud to the class

• Poster presentations

• Oral reports

History Social-Studies

• Map skills (using symbols, keys, scales)

• Physical regions of the United States

• United States today

• The first Americans, explorers, the colonies (Colonial Day Event)

• French and Indian War, Revolutionary War, War of 1812

• The Declaration of Independence and the Constitution

• Civil War and Reconstruction (Civil War Day Event)

• Arkansas history (Field trip to the State Capital)

Mathematics

• Problem solving (making a plan to solve multi-step problems)

• Estimation (rounding numbers)

• Numbers (reading and writing and place value to 1 million, least common multiple)

• Addition and subtraction of whole numbers, decimals, and fractions

• Multiplication of whole numbers, decimals, and fractions

• Division of whole numbers, decimals, money

• Understanding place value

• Data and statistics (graphs, mean, median, mode, range, probability)

• Geometry

• Measurement (inches, feet, yards, metric units)

• Ratios, percent, proportion

• Algebra: Integers, equations and graphing

Science

Life Science

• Living things (simple living things, invertebrates, plant growth/adaptation)

• Ecology (biomes)

Physical Science

• Classifying matter

• Changes in matter

• Energy

• Motion and forces

• Electricity and magnetism

Earth Science

• Space and the solar system

• Earth (weathering, energy resources, pollution)

• Predicting weather

The Human Body

• Respiration and Excretion

• Living a Healthy Life