RELIGION

Students will explore in detail:

• God, The Father of All

• God, The Son, The Redeemer

• God, The Holy Spirit, The Sanctifier

INTEGRATED LANGUAGE ARTS

Listening:

• All students will demonstrate appropriate listening skills to enchance learning through the receptive process
• Includes decoding, comprehension, vocabulary, study skills, predicting outcomes, formulating questions, responding creatively and accomplishing goals based on rubrics

Reading:

• All students will demonstrate proficiency in decoding sounds, letters and words in written English in order to become independent and fluent readers in a variety of literary sources
• Includes decoding, comprehension, vocabulary, study skills, predicting outcomes, formulating questions, responding creatively and accomplishing goals based on rubrics

Speaking:

• All students will demonstrate effective speaking processes at the appropriate level of development including the ability to address a wide variety of publics
• Includes defining purpose, organizing ideas, applying skills, oral communication, reflecting, and accomplishing goals based on rubrics

Writing:

• All students will demonstrate proficiency in writing across the curriculum in all disciplines, with clarity, organization and structure including the ability to address a wide variety of publics
• Includes pre-writing, drafting, revising, editing (grammar and spelling/vocabulary) publishing (handwriting), defining purpose, organizing ideas, applying skills, oral communication, reflecting and accomplishing goals based on rubrics

MATHEMATICS

Numbers and Operations (Base Ten Fractions)

• The difference between a prime and composite number
• Grouping symbols

Geometry/Measurement and Data

• Measure distance, weight or capacity

Operations and Algebraic Thinking

• Using variables
• Purpose of ordered pairs in a grid

Statistics and Probabilty

• Central tendency
• Type of data/choice of display

SCIENCE

Physical Science:

• Structure of atoms
• Structure and properties of matter
• Chemical and physical changes
• Math aspects of science
• Motion and forces\
• Energy and its interaction with matter

Life Science:

• The Cell
• Reproduction and Heredity/Genetics
• Evolution
• Interdependence of organisms
• Matter, energy, and organization in living systems
• Behavior of organisms

Earth and Space Science:

• Composition of the Earth and the dynamics that shape it
• Origin and evolution of the universe
• Space exploration

SOCIAL STUDIES

• Democratic Citizenship including an understanding of the development of:
  • North American colonies
  • American Government
  • Constitution
• Historical Understanding of native inhabitants, exploration, settlement, formation of government in:
  • North America by region
  • Canada
  • Mexico and Central America
• Geographical Understanding:
  • landforms and physical features
  • types of maps
  • Western Hemisphere, and natural resources found in the Western Hemisphere
  • Continents and countries of the world