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Reading & Literature
- Develop comprehension through oral and written responses to novels and non-fiction
- Develop critical thinking skills: make inferences, discuss themes, and analyze personal voice, point-of-view, and author purpose
- Read and discuss novels, short stories,expository writing, and poetry
- Read media for literal text and sub-text
- Participate in thematic novel studies
Writing & Language Arts
- Write organized summaries and paragraphs relating literary events to personal experiences, other texts, and the world
- Use similes, metaphors, and idioms
- Practice grammar and spelling rules
- Develop research skills: taking notes and long-term writing assignments
- Publish and present writing
- Study vocabulary using Classical Roots
Social Studies
- Analyze primary and secondary sources
- African American Civil Rights movement
- European Resistance movement during World War II
- Activist movements throughout history
Mathematics
- Increasing facility with four basic arithmetic operations applied to whole numbers, fractions, and decimals
- Measure of 2-D and 3-D shapes
- Identifying polygons
- Round and estimate whole numbers and decimals
- Understand relationships among fractions, decimals, and percents
- Developing problem-solving strategies
- Collecting, organizing, and displaying data
Science
- Solar energy: observe and relate solar energy transfer in a variety of situations
- Develop facility with scientific method
- Brainology: develop an understanding of how the brain functions and of one’s own learning
- Pollinator Posse garden project
- Redwood ecology with overnight camping trip
STEAM
- Digital Citizenship: information privacy, cyberbullying, copyright, plagiarism
- Coding with Scratch and Code.org
- Gardening and pollination
- Research: database research, primary sources, automatic bibliographic formatting, citing image sources, website evaluation
- 2D and 3D Design
- Google Applications: Drive, Docs, Slides, etc.
- Tool Usage: Saws, T-square, C-clamps Levels, Power Drill
- Adobe Voice
Music
- Fourth and fifth grade choir
- American folk and popular songs
- Caribbean folk and popular songs
- Blues and pre-blues music
- Intermediate North Indian classical singing
- Touch stroke and heel-toe techniques on conga drums
- Scales and arpeggios in solfege
- Introduction to band for instrumentalists
- Introduction to Irish music
Physical Education
- Developing specialized movement skills related to team sports
- Participating daily in a health-enhancing physical activity
- Understanding the relationship between body type and movement skills
Service Learning
- Pollinator Posse: grow habitat and care for monarch caterpillars and butterflies with first grade buddies
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