Language Arts
Reading
The student will:
• Read and/or listen to gain meaning using a variety of strategies.
• Understand story structure including plot, setting, problem, resolution, main characters and main events.
• Analyze character development within text.
• Use comparison and contrast in a variety of settings.
• Predict, draw conclusions, sequence and summarize within various contexts.
• Identify main ideas and supporting details.
• Use a variety of resource materials both in and out of the classroom to support a topic.
Writing
The student will:
• Write to convey meaning and to develop a sense of voice.
• Use the writing process (prewriting, drafting, revision, proofreading).
• Edit for correct spelling, punctuation, grammar, and capitalization.
• Select and develop a focused topic.
• Create stories from their imagination.
• Organize their ideas into a series of paragraphs.
• Read, write, and listen to poetry in various forms.
• Apply these skills to a variety of genres.
Speaking/Listening
The student will:
• Communicate clearly in complex sentences.
• Be an active listener.
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Math
The student will:
• Use math reasoning strategies to understand and solve realistic word problems.
• Select the appropriate unit of measurement in standard or metric form and determine the appropriate tools to use in a given situation.
• Review addition and subtraction facts to 18
• Reinforce the process of addition and subtraction with regrouping.
• Practice and review multiplication and division facts through 100.
• Multiply a 3 digit number by a 2 digit number.
• Divide a 3 digit number by a one-digit number with and without remainders.
• Know the characteristics and interpret the various uses of graphs, charts and tables, and apply to any original project.
• Recognize, read and write fractions, improper fractions and mixed numbers.
• Understand the relationship between decimals and fractions and decimal and money.
• Utilize a basic math vocabulary.
• Explore and develop relationships between plane and solid geometric shapes.
• Find measure such as length, perimeter, volume and area using standard and non-standard units.
• Express probability as a fraction, percent, or ratio and analyze the results.
• Practice place value concepts to hundred thousands and hundredths.
• Measure elapsed time.
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Social Studies
The student will:
• Read, interpret and create maps, charts and graphs.
• Understand time lines and sequence of events.
• Be familiar with Native American lifestyles and cultures in New York State
• Trace the early development of New York State through the explorations of the first Europeans.
• Examine the way of life in colonial New York.
• Recognize the major causes and events leading to the American Revolution in New York.
• Explore the growth of state and national government systems.
• Discuss the impact of the Industrial Revolution.
• Introduce the causes and effects of the Civil War.
• Identify the roots of immigration and the impact of immigration.
• Read and respond to document-based questions.
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Science
The student will:
• Be familiar with the life cycle of plants and animals.
• Recognize the basic needs of plants and animals.
• Observe adaptations within a species.
• Examine the parts of the digestive and respiratory systems and understand their functions.
• Identify the components of the solar system.
• Compare and contrast the characteristics of the planets.
• Participate in discussion of the basic scientific instruments used for observation.
• Understand how different land features affect weather.
• Realize that different forms of energy exist.
• Use scientific process skills.
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