• Place value to 100,000 & rounding to 100’s
• Multiplication and division
• Money and making change
• Time to the minute
• Problem solving

• Habitats and Endangered Animals (Life)
• Our Changing Earth (Earth)
• Our Solar System (Earth)
• Light (Physical)
• Grade-appropriate participation in annual Science Fair and Engineering Design Challenge

• Local and regional history, economy, and landmarks
• American Indian nations of the local region
• Geographical features of the local region; map skills; our 50 states
• People and their environment: the impact of human migration on wildlife and resources

• Using an encyclopedia and doing simple research
• Distinguishing between biography, autobiography, and collective biography
• Elaborating on genres
• Using call numbers for finding non-fiction books
• Using library research to complete a research project assigned by the classroom teacher

Reading & Literature

• Literary concepts: author, illustrator, genre, purpose
• Improving fluency, listening and speaking skills, and vocabulary
• Guided reading strategies and sustained silent reading
• Critical thinking and comprehension skills
• Reading informational and narrative text
• Literary concepts: plot, character, theme

• The paragraph: structure and conventions
• Short expository report writing
• Nouns, verbs, pronouns, adjectives
• Oral presentation skills
• Spelling and vocabulary development

• Conditioning and fitness activities. Five-Mile-Club walk/jog/run for 20 minutes each week.
• Team sports skill-building: Introduction to volleyball. Football on short field. Basketball with lowered baskets: Soccer. Track: Baseball/ and Softball using large balls.
  
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Computer & Technology - Guided units on advanced Internet searches, presentations, video editing, webpage software, sound recording, greeting cards, and mechanical engineering. Instruction in music theory, greeting card development, lisp programming, mythology, keyboarding, biographies, and Oregon Trail.

• Mastery of importing graphics, presentation software, and multimedia programs
• Proficiency with video cameras and editing, Internet Search engines, mechanical engineering, audio recording
• Introduction to top and bottom rows on the keyboard; scanning; and computer simulation

Foreign Language - FLEX Program*-- French and Spanish

• Vocabulary relating to the people, places, and things around them
• Simple conversations
• Correct pronunciation
• Music and cultures
• Beginning worksheet exercises

Music

• Sing, using proper diction, posture, breathing, and phrasing, a varied repertoire of music
• Perform on pitched and unpitched instruments, including playing independent/contrasting parts
• Improvise melodies and variations
• Read and notate music
• Listen to, describe, analyze, and evaluate music and music performances
• Identify aural examples of music by culture, style and/or time period

Art

• Identify and describe subject matter, media used, and previously-learned elements of art as well as the element of value
• Compare and contrast two similar works of art made using different media, using appropriate art vocabulary
• Identify artists from various countries and discuss art traditions in those countries
• Continue to work with color, mixing and using tints, shades, and neutral colors
• Begin to make informed judgments about a piece of art's compositional and communicative qualities