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Reading
- Reads a variety of literary forms - fables, myths, fairy tales, folk tales, short stories, biographies, and autobiographies
- Accelerated Reading book reports- 3 mandatory (at student’s level)
- Uses a variety of research materials
- Varies reading speed based on type of reading material
- Suffixes, prefixes and word meanings as related to parts of speech
- Content clues
- Vocabulary expansion
- Making inferences
- Cause/effect relationships
- Main ideas and supporting detail
- Drawing conclusions
- Making, confirming, revising predictions
- Distinguishes between important and unimportant facts
- Identifies sequence of events
Writing/Communication
- Uses literary elements - plot, settings, character development
- Uses a variety of writing styles - exaggeration, figurative language, tone, connotation, and author language
- Uses prewriting, first draft, revising, and final draft
- Six Traits of Writing
- Narrative
- Expository
- Descriptive
- Persuasive
- Writing from a prompt
- Letters
- Book reports
- Research papers
- Class projects
- Journals
- Poetry
- Summaries
- Newspapers
- Verbal presentations of projects
Math
- Reading and interpreting graphs
- Describing, displaying data
- Use of large numbers and operation sense
- Pre-algebra preparation
- Decimals - addition, subtraction, multiplication, division
- Standard and metric measurement
- Polygons
- Area, perimeter
- Fractions - addition, subtraction, multiplication, and division
- Relationship between decimals and fractions
- Mixed numbers - addition, subtraction, multiplication, and division
History and Geography
Advanced map studies
Geography facts, including the 50 states
Eight documents reviewed
North America: Canada, United States,
Mexico and Central America
South America: Continent of Natural Resources
Nations of South America
United States History: The Colonial Heritage,
New World's First Republic, U.S. in the
Twentieth Century
Science
- Plants
- Plentiful Plants
- Animals
- Observing Invertebrates
- Earth and Space
- Exploring Space
- Chemistry
- Matter and Chemistry (atoms, elements,
- and compounds)
Health
- Safety First
- First Steps of First Aid
- Your Changing Body
- An Active Lifestyle
- Your Body’s Defenses
- Your Communication System
- Drugs—Use and Abuse
- A Healthy Spirit
- Anatomy
- Endocrine System
- Respiratory System
- Muscular System
- Skeletal System
- Lymphatic System
- Nervous System
- Skin
Additional helps:
- Attend school sponsored events
- Help your child develop good study habits (this means NOT in front of the TV)
- Have your child read at least 30 minutes each day
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