• Apply word recognition skills and read grade-appropriate text.
• Use a variety of strategies to expand vocabulary usage.  
• Use dictionaries and glossaries to understand the meaning of words. 
• Read, understand, respond to, analyze, interpret, evaluate, and appreciate varied literature.
• Understand the meaning of texts using a variety of strategies.  

Language (Thea Holton and Macmillan-McGraw-Hill)

• Write quality paragraphs.
• Demonstrate understanding and communicate effectively through listening and speaking.
• Critically analyze information found in electronic and print media, and use a variety of sources to learn about a topic.
• Understand and use grade-appropriate English grammar.
• Compose various pieces of writing.
• Locate and use information in reference materials.
• Identify and use the four types of sentences: declarative, interrogative, imperative, exclamatory.

• Develop a visual sense of our Nation and World throughout the use of globes, maps and charts. 
• Understand how living in a geographical region affects how people live. 
• Understand that people are dependent on one another for goods and services.
• Understand current events.

• Units include:
  • Living organisms
  • Ecosystems 
  • Plants and soil 
  • Animal characteristics
  • Rocks and Fossils
  • Earth and our solar system
  • Water and the conservation of water
  • Atmosphere, weather and climate
  • Property and changes of matter
  • Motion, Forces and Energy
  • Properties of heat, light, and sound
  • Characteristics of electricity
  • Properties of magnets and magnetic fields

Art

• Create art in a responsible manner.
• Use elements of art (color, line, shape, texture, value, point, space, form) in creative products.
• Use the principles of art (balance, contrast, emphasis, movement, rhythm, repetition, variation, unity) to analyze and make creative products.
• Use a variety of art materials/media to create two and three dimensional art.
• Appreciate the art of other cultures and major artists.

Other
Students attend weekly classes in Spanish, Music, PhyEd, Technology and Media Center. 

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