In Religion, students will:

1. Develop practices to build an ongoing relationship with our loving God
2. Recognize the Ten Commandments, Beatitudes, Good Samaritan and Prodigal Son as scripture passages about God’s love for us, our lover for others and our need for mercy and forgiveness
3. Read and reflect on Scripture passages in the Bible
4. Understand God is revealed in creation, Sacred Scripture, morality and the Church
5. Understand that our faith is Trinitarian as expressed in Baptism
6. Understand that Mary is the Mother of God as she is the Mother of Jesus
7. Demonstrate how saints are models of love and mercy
8. Demonstrate reverence behavior in church
9. Understand that the sacraments are signs of grace and encounters with Jesus Christ
10. Explain that God created us in his own image with a spiritual soul, including intellect and free will
11. Demonstrate Catholic Social Teaching by reaching out to others through positive words and actions
12. Compare and contrast communal prayer and private prayer

In Reading, students will:

1. Analyze and describe characters in a story utilizing character traits
2. Determine the main idea, theme and or central message of a story
3. Use text features to develop an understanding of nonfiction texts
4. Understand the structure of a story though the structures of problem/solution, cause/effect, and comparisons
5. Visualize what the author is telling the reader
6. Predict and infer to show a deeper understanding of the text
7. Identify and understand figurative language
8. Summarize without retelling

In Writing,students will:

1. Write a cohesive paragraph with a focus on a single topic
2. Write a multi-paragraph narrative and informative text on a single topic
3. Apply research process to organize notes into cohesive sentences and paragraphs
4. Understand and utilize the steps of the writing process including brainstorming, drafting, revising, editing and publishing
5. Apply standard English grammar: verbs, adjectives, adverbs, and prepositional phrases; create compound and complex sentences; spelling; capitalize appropriately; punctuate dialogue
6. Include figurative language and dialogue to create richness in writing
7. Draw evidence from texts to support analysis and reflection in written pieces
8. Utilize technology to produce and publish writing pieces
9. Journal with and without story starters on fiction/nonfiction topics to build creativity

In Grammar, students will:

1. Communicate effectively through oral and written expression
2. Distinguish between different sentence types: subject/predicate; compound subject/compound predicate; run-on sentences
3. Identify main types of speech: nouns, pronouns, adjectives, verbs, adverbs/conjunctions and punctuation/capitalization
4. Write and speak in complete sentences
5. Use correct capitalization and punctuation

In Math, students will:

1. Number Sense and Operations in Base Ten
   1. Generalize place value understanding for multi-digit whole numbers with numbers up to 100,000,000
   2. Round multi-digit whole numbers to 10,000,000
   3. Compare two multi-digit numbers up to 100,000,000  (<, >, =)
   4. Multiply whole number up to 4-digits by 1-digit whole number; multiply 2-digit number by 2-digit number
2. Number Sense and Operations in Fractions
   1. Recognize, generate, explain and illustrate why two fractions equivalent
   2. Compare two fractions with like and unlike denominators (<, >, =)
   3. Add and subtract fractions with like denominators
   4. Understand that fractions are decimals are equivalent to the same quantity
3. Relationships and Algebraic Thinking
   1. Use the four operations with whole numbers to solve problems
   2. Solve multi-step whole number problems involving the four operations and variables to interpret reasonableness
   3. Determine if a whole number is prime or composite, and find all factor pairs for whole numbers within 100
   4. Generate a number pattern that follows a given rule
   5. Use words or mathematical symbols to express a rule for a given pattern
4. Geometry and Measurement
   1. Draw and identify points, lines, line segments, rays, angles, perpendicular lines and parallel lines
   2. Classify 2-dimensional shapes by their sides and/or angles
   3. Construct lines of symmetry for a 2-dimensional figure
   4. Identify angles and their measure
   5. Draw and measure angles in whole-number degrees using a protractor
   6. Solve problems involving measurement and conversion of customary measurements from a larger unit to a smaller unit
   7. Use the four operations to solve problems involving distances, intervals of time, capacity, weight of objects and money
   8. Apply the area and perimeter formulas for rectangles to solve problems
5. Data and Statistics
6. Create line plot, bar graph, double bar graph, or line graph to display measurement data
7. Solve problems involving addition and subtraction by using information presented in a data display
8. Analyze data in a frequency table, line plot, bar graph, double bar graph or picture graph
9. Analyze data from graphs to find mean, median, mode and range.

In Social Studies, students will:

1. Civic
   1. Identify important principles in the Declaration of Independence
   2. Identify important principles in the Constitution 
   3. Identify important principles in the Bill of Rights
   4. Distinguish between powers and functions of local, state and national government
   5. Identify and explain the three branches of government in the federal government
2. Economics
   1. Explain the relationship between profit and loss in economic decisions
   2. distinguish between natural, capital and human resources
   3. Explain how the government utilizes taxes to provide goods and services
3. Geography
   1. Identify and locate specific regions, states, capitals, river systems, and mountain ranges in the United States
   2. Construct and interpret historical maps and current maps
   3. Identify and compare the diverse human geographical characteristics of the United States
   4. Analyze how people are affected by, depend on, adapt to, and change their physical environment in the past and in the present
4. History

1. Identify and describe the contributions of historically significant individuals to American and the United States prior to c. 1800 
2. Describe the discovery, exploration and early settlement of America by Europeans prior to 1800
3. Describe the reasons African peoples were enslaved and brought to the Americas prior to 1800
4. Identify the roles among Native Americans, immigrants, African Americans, women and others form early migration to 1800
5. Analyze the preservation of cultural life, celebrations, traditions and commemorations over time

5. Social Science Inquiry

1. Analyze and evaluate primary and secondary social studies sources
2. Analyze and use artifacts to share information on social studies topics
3. Create maps, timelines, charts, models, diagrams to communicate information and understanding
4. Conduct and present social studies research to an audience using appropriate resources
5. distinguish between facts and opinion and recognize bias and point of view in social studies topics

In Science, students will:

1. Physical Science
   1. Make observations to provide evidence that energy can be transferred from place to place by sound, light, heat and electric currents
   2. Explanation of energy transformation through temperature change, light, sound, motion, and magnetic effects
   3. Develop a model to describe that objects can be seen only when light is reflected off them or when they produce their own light
   4. Generate and compare multiple solutions that use patterns to transfer information
2. Life Science

1. Construct an argument that plants and animals have internal and external structures that function to support survival, growth, behavior and plant reproduction
2. compare and contrast the major organs/organ systems that perform similar functions for animals belonging to the different vertebrates classes

3. Earth and Space Science

1. Obtain and combine information to describe that energy and fuels are derived from natural resources and that their uses affect the environment
2. Identify evidence from patterns in rock formations and fossils in rock layers to support an explanation for changes in landscape over time
3. Make observations and measurements to provide evidence of the effects of weathering or the rate of erosions by water, ice, wind, or vegetation
4. Plan and construct scientific investigations to provide evidence of how natural processes shape Earth’s surfaces
5. Interpret data from maps to describe patterns of Earth’s features
6. Generate and compare multiple solutions to reduce the impacts of natural Earth processes on humans