Word Study
- Systematic, interactive approach to learning phonics and spelling through comparing and contrasting known features
- Will pre-assess students to determine existing word knowledge
- Instruction is explicit, sequenced, and incremental
- Students move through developmental stages as their knowledge of words deepens
Reading
- Demonstrate comprehension of fiction and nonfiction text
- Read with fluency, accuracy and expression
- Demonstrate comprehension using the natural strategies of clarifying, making connections, visualizing, questioning, predicting, drawing inferences, determining importance, synthesizing, and summarizing
Writing
- Write daily for a variety of purposes
- Use writing workshop traits to use ideas, voice, conventions, sentence fluency, organization, and word choice
- Write Narrative, Descriptive, and Expository (research report) style paragraphs
Math
- Provides students opportunities to engage in experiences involving problem solving, data collection and analysis, and algebraic thinking
- Concepts to master are double-digit multiplication, division, fractions, decimals, and geometry
Science
- Use information, analyze data and validate experimental results by creating simple predictions, questioning and hypothesizing at a more rigorous level
- Master principles of electricity, concepts of motion, basic information on solar systems, plant anatomy and adaptations, weather phenomena
- Investigate relationships between plants and animals and their environments
Virginia Studies
- Study the state of Virginia beginning with the first permanent English settlement at Jamestown to the end of the Twentieth Century
- Explore how the geography of Virginia and the state’s resources, its economic systems, and cultural makeup have influenced Virginia history from pre-colonial times to the end of the Twentieth Century
- Read and write about famous Virginians and study important historical documents and events that have influenced Virginia history
- Prepare students to develop problem solving and decision making skills