Reading/Language Arts-Students a variety of skills and strategies throughout the year Reading strategies include: summarizing, making generalizations, cause and effect, sequencing, vocabulary building, Writing strategies include organization of writing stuch as leads, topic sentences, details and writing conclusions, editing and revising of writing, grammar, word study (spelling).

 

Math-

   Unit 1-Number Theory including arrays, squares and square roots, factorization, prime and composite numbers.

   Unit 2-Multiplication and Estimation-Students willl learn review place value, addition and subtraction. They will learn how to mulitiply whole numbers and decimals using three different methods (partial product, lattice, and traditional.)  They'll also have a variety of estimation experiences including probability and statistical landmarks.

   Unit 3-Geometry-Students will explore the concept of angles and their relationship to shapes.

   Unit 4-Division-Students will learn to divide whole numbers and decimals in the dividend using two different methods (partial quotient and traditional.)

   Unit 5-Basic Fractions-Students will review basic fraction concepts including mixed to improper, improper to mixed, equivalent fractions, comparing and ordering fractions and reading a ruler.

   Unit 6-Statistics and data including statistical landmarks (mean, median, mode, range), graphing, line plots and stem-and-leaf plots

   Unit 7 and 8 (combined)-Negative Numbers and Fractions. Students will compare, add and subtract negative and positive numbers. They will also add and subtract mixed numbers.

   Unit 9-Students explore the four quadrant coordinate plane, finding area of parallelograms and triangles and finding volume of polyhedrons.

   Unit 10-12 (combined)-Basic algebra including balancing simple equations, setting up simple algebriac expressions, exploring parts of a circle and finding the circumference, describing polyhedrons, tree diagrams, probability, and elapsed time.

 

Science-

    Unit 1-Students will review and explore vocabulary and concepts of scienctific investigation.

    Unit 2-Students will compare and contrast animal and plant cells

    Unit 3-Students will classify living organisms into the 5 kingdoms of biology and explain basic characteristics of each.

    Unit 4-Students will explore physical, geographic, and biological of the ocean.

    Unit 5-Students will esplain elementary concepts of chemistry including atoms, molecules, elements, compounds, chemical and physical changes.

    Unit 6-Students will explored concepts about the earth's crust and movement including plate tectonic and continental drift.

    Unit 7-Students will compare and contrasts the three types of rocks including characteristics, how formed and the rock cycle.

    Unit 8-Students will explore the concept of sound including how it's produced, sound waves and instruments that make sound.

    Unit 9-Students will explore the concept of light including characteristics of light and how it interacts with materials.

 

  Social Studies-

   Unit 1-Virgini Regions Students will review regions of Virginia from 4th grade

   Unit 2-Settlement of our Land Students will review Native Americans and Jamestown colonists from 4th grade

   Unit 3-Colonial Virginia Students will learn about life in colonia Virginia with emphasis on economics

   Unit 4-American Indepedence Students will explore America's reasons for independence form England and the American Revolution

   Unit 5-Formation of our Government Students will explore the Constitution, the Bill of Rights and Virginia's role in the formatio of both.

   Unit 6-Civil War Students will explain the causes and major battle of the Civil War.

   Unit 7-Reconstruction and Jim Crow Era Students will learn about the Reconstruction Era, desegregation and the rebuilding of the South.

   Unit 8-20th century. Students will learn about Virginia's role in the 20th century with emphasis on integration and famous Virginans.