LANGUAGE ARTS
Reading
- Students will learn and effectively apply a variety of reading strategies for comprehending, interpreting and evaluating a wide range of texts including fiction, nonfiction, classic and contemporary works.
- Students will use phonetic skills to decode words.
- Students will use word recognition and decoding strategies such as phonetic skills, context clues, picture clues, word order, prefixes and suffixes to comprehend written selections.
- Students will use reading comprehension strategies such as drawing conclusions, summarizing, making predictions, identifying cause and effect, and differentiating fiction from nonfiction.
- Students will identify facts and main idea, sequence events, define and differentiate characters and determine the author’s purpose in a range of literature.
- Students will understand elements such as character, setting, plot.
Writing
Students can effectively use written language for a variety of purposes and with a variety of audiences.
- Students will use the writing process, including generating topics, drafting, revising ideas and editing, to complete a variety of writing tasks.
- Students can use correct spelling, punctuation, capitalization, grammar and word usage, and good penmanship to complete a writing task.
- Students will write a personal experience narrative or a creative story that has a beginning, middle and end and use descriptive words or phrases to develop ideas and advance the characters, plot and setting.
- Students will locate, acknowledge and use several sources to write an informational paper in their own words.
- Students will write well-organized communications such as a friendly letter.
Listening and Speaking
Students effectively listen and speak in situations that serve different purposes and involve a variety of audiences.
- Students can use effective vocabulary and logical organization to relate or summarize ideas, events and other information.
- Students give and follow multiple-step directions.
- Students are comfortable telling a story, presenting a report, and performing for a group.
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MATHEMATICS
Number Sense
Students develop number sense and use numbers and number relationships to acquire basic facts to solve a wide variety of real-world problems, and to determine the reasonableness of results.
- Students will use and represent numbers in physical form, by symbol and word name (three = 3 = ***)
- Students will construct equivalent forms of whole numbers or fractions ( 5+5 = 7+3 or 1/12=2/4).
- Students will identify fractions by model, word names and symbol ( ‘A = half= ).
- Students will read, write, and model whole numbers to 1000.
- Students will understand and construct place value concepts ( 500 + 30 + 1= 531 = 5 hundreds, 3 tens and 1 one).
- Students will understand the meaning and application of addition and subtraction by demonstrating the process used, selecting the appropriate operation to solve word problems.
- Students will demonstrate proficiency with basic facts to 20.
- Students will solve problems using a variety of mental computations and estimation.
Data Analysis and Probability
Students can use data collection and analysis, statistics, and probability to make valid inferences, decisions and arguments to solve a variety of real-world problems.
- Students will collect, analyze and organize data (largest to smallest, most often, sequencing, etc.).
- Students will construct, read and interpret graphs.
Patterns, Algebra and Functions
Students will use algebraic methods to explore, model and describe patterns, relationships and functions involving numbers, shapes, data and graphs in a variety of problems.
- Students can create, describe and extend a variety of patterns (skip counting, continuing a pattern such as red, blue, blue, green, red...).
- Students can find the missing element in a number sentence ( 5+ = 7).
- Student can describe how changing the value of one variable will result in a change in another.
Geometry
Students can use geometric methods, properties and relationships as a means to recognize, draw, describe, connect and analyze shapes and representations in the physical world.
- Students will identify and compare geometric shapes by name and attribute (size, shape and number of angles).
- Students will understand how shapes can be changed by combining or dividing them.
Measurement
Students will make and use direct and indirect measurement, metric and US to describe and compare the real world. Students will understand objects are measurable by length, weight, time, temperature, are and volume.
- Students will gain an understanding of non-standard and standard units of measure (Finger vs. Inch vs. Centimeter).
- Students will select appropriate unit of measure and appropriate tool (length and ruler, capacity and cup, weight and scale).
- Students will be able to determine the passage of time (clocks, calendars).
- Students will compare units of measure to determine equivalent relationships (inches to feet to yards).
Logic
Students will use both inductive and deductive reasoning as they make conjectures and test the validity of arguments.
- Students will be able to formulate and draw inductive and deductive conclusions about mathematical problems from everyday situations.
- Students will be able to distinguish between relevant and irrelevant information.
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SCIENCE
Life Science
Students will understand the characteristics of living things, the diversity of life and how organisms change over time in terms of biological adaptation. They will learn the interrelationships of matter and energy in living organisms and the interactions of living organisms with their environment.
- Students will describe similarities, differences and characteristics of plants and animals and understand cause and effect relationships in living systems.
- Students will trace the life cycles of various organisms and understand relationships between living and non-living components within an ecosystem (habitats, predator-prey, overpopulation).
- Students will recognize components that make up the human body systems (digestive, muscular, skeletal).
Earth and Space Science
Students will understand the composition, formative processes, and history of the earth, solar system and universe.
- Students will describe and identify basic earth materials and features of the earth surface (rocks, water, gasses).
- Students will identify planets, patterns of movement and their relationship to the sun.
- Students will measure, record and describe weather and the seasons and how they effect environment and population.
Physical Science
Students will understand the nature of matter and energy including their forms, the changes they undergo and their interactions.
- Students will create mixtures and separate them based on differences in properties (salt and sand, iron filings and soil).
- Students will demonstrate that materials exist in different states and can change (solid, liquid, gas).
- Students will recognize that light travels in a straight line and can be reflected, refracted and absorbed.
- Students will demonstrate the properties of magnets.
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SOCIAL STUDIES
Maps
Students will learn how to interpret models and maps of their environment.
- Students will become familiar with map reading and map making.
- Students will learn about cardinal directions and map keys.
- Students will understand the difference between a map and globe.
Geography
Students will learn the layout of the United States and world in relationship to their surroundings.
- Students will locate Prescott on a map of Arizona.
- Students will locate Arizona and surrounding states on a map and globe.
- Students will become familiar with the main geographical components of the United States (Rocky Mountains, Mississippi River, Pacific and Atlantic Oceans).
- Students will be able to identify continents and oceans of the world.
History
Students will have the opportunity to learn about early settlers, Native Americans and the customs and traditions that helped form this country.
- Students will gain an understanding of Native Americans and their cultures.
- Students will gain an understanding of the early settlers and the expansion and growth of the United States.
GOVERNMENT
Students gain an understanding of the concepts of leadership in school, community, the nation and world.
- Students will identify leaders in school, community and the nation, both past and present.
- Students will participate in group decision making and cooperation and understand the need for rules (voting, majority rules, group shared responsibility).
Citizenship
Students will gain an understanding of the multicultural nature of our society and develop a positive image of their place in our society.
- Students will explore the similarities and differences in families and cultures
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Students will develop and understanding of respect, cooperation and pride in our multiethnic society.
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