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Reading
The student will:
- Read for meaning using a variety of skills
- Compare and contrast authors' styles
- Understand parts of a story, including plot, character development, time/place setting
- Use resource material to write a report on a topic
- Read to create a response which includes specific details from a story
- Share reading experiences with others
- Respond in writing to myths, fables, fiction, non-fiction, and a personal account: essay, journal, letter
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Writing and Language Arts.
The student will:
- Write to convey meaning, using the writing process
- Edit and revise writing for meaning as well as spelling, punctuation and grammar
- Use a variety of literary styles, including simile, metaphor, and flashback
- Write for specific purposes, such as a business letter
- Develop competency writing in a variety of genres which may include fiction, non-fiction and poetry
- Uses word processing skills to edit and improve writing
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Math
The student will:
- Use problem-solving to investigate and understand mathematical content
- Perform operations with whole numbers, mixed numbers, fractions, and decimals
- Use measurement, both metric and standard
- Study geometry to identify geometric figures, as well as to understand concepts of area, volume, and perimeter
- Interpret and design graphs
- Understand place value
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Science
The student will learn through hands-on, inquiry-based methods, by posing questions, seeking answers and developing solutions, in the study of:
- Physical Science: Sound and Light
- Life Science:
-The Human Body
-Pond Life
-Botany
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Social Studies
The student will focus on the study of the Western Hemisphere, with emphasis on:
- Geographic, economic and social/cultural understandings
- The United States, Canada, and Latin America
- Some political and historical understandings
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Computer
The student will:
- Use Student Writing Center for Word Processing
- Use computer as a research tool using Encarta and the Internet
- Use computer to complement the math program
- Use technology to enhance the curriculum
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