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English-Language Arts

Reading:

The Reading curriculum is literature based with an emphasis on growth in vocabulary and growth in the following comprehension skills:

• Defining the setting and plot

• Understanding cause and effect

• Comparing and contrasting

• Context clues

• Determining the author's purpose

• Developing characteristics

• Visualizing

• Identifying the text structure

• Recognizing themes

• Selecting the main idea and details

• Drawing conclusions

• Predicting

• Paraphrasing

• Summarizing

• Interpreting graphic sources

• Distinguishing fact and opinion

These skills are taught through a basic reading series and workbook, trade books, Accelerated Reader books and articles in textbooks for other subjects.

English:

The English curriculum is based on practice and study in a basic text with an integrated usage of skills emphasized throughout all subjects.  Both verbal and written language skills are stressed in the areas of:

• Sentence structure

• Simple and compound subjects and predicates

• Types of sentences

• Basic information for parts of speech including nouns, verbs, pronouns, adjectives and adverbs

• Correct usage of homophones, pronouns, adjectives and adverbs

Spelling:

• 800 words demonstrating the various spellings of 30 sounds are presented

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

• Classroom spelling tools include:

  Lists of phonetically centered words

  Dictation throughout all subject areas

  Applied spelling principles throughout the curriculum

  Dictionary practice in guide words and syllabication

History Social-Studies

In-depth study of regions of the United States

• Geography

• Culture

• Economy

• History

• Climate

Comparisons of regions using the five themes of geography

• Location

• Place

• Human interactions

• Movement

• Regions

Map and globe skills

• Relief

• Physical

• Political

• Population

• Transportation

Other graphic resources

• Charts

• Tables

• Photographs

• Drawings

Mathematics

The understanding of all areas of mathematics is expedited by an emphasis on mental math.  Through this approach, growth in the following areas is encouraged:

• Estimating sums, differences, products and quotients

• Rounding in order to simplify mental math

• Understanding numbers in standard form, word form and expanded form

• Perimeter, area and volume

• Congruent figures and motions

• Adding and subtracting whole numbers up to five digits

• Solid and plane figures

• Multiplying 2-4 digit numbers by 1-2 digit numbers

• Median, mode and range

• Dividing by 1-2 digit divisors

• Time

• Adding and subtracting fractions with like and unlike denominators

• Adding and subtracting money with /without whole numbers

• Reading line graphs, bar graphs and pictographs

• Pictographs, line plots, bar graphs, graphing ordered pairs and line pairs

• Problem solving by choosing operations for 1-3 step problems

• Solving for variables in simple algebraic equations

• Translating words to expressions

Science

Concepts are introduced through discussion and activities.  Social issues that relate to science and technology create a personal interest.  Concepts and objectives are presented in the areas of:

• Seed plants and their parts

• Flowering plants and conifers and how they reproduce

• Five groups of vertebrates

• Animal adaptations

• Living and nonliving parts of an ecosystem

• States of matter and how matter changes

• Comparing work and energy

• Movement of heat

• Earth as it relates to the sun and moon

• Earth and the value of its resources