In Religion, students will:

1. Develop practices to build an ongoing relationship with our loving God
2. Understand the meaning of th Ascension as th transition of Jesus’ historical and physical presence on Earth
3. Understand the Nicene and Apostles Creeds as statements of Catholic belief
4. Demonstrate reverence behavior in church
5. Identify the Holy Days of Obligation and know their significance
6. Recognize Christ’s presence at Mass
7. Display appropriate attitudes toward the unborn, sick, handicapped, aged, and dying
8. Recognize attitudes and actions that are sinful and selfish
9. Know that prayer is an essential way we respond to God who loved us first
10. Explain how Mary and the Saints desire to intercede for us and we ask for their prayers

In Literature 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 and Grammar, 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. Use all writing skills to compose

• opinion texts
• informative/explanatory texts
• fiction/nonfiction narratives
• poems

8. Draw evidence from texts to support analysis and reflection in written pieces
9. Utilize technology to produce and publish writing pieces
10. Journal with and without story starters on fiction/nonfiction topics to build creativity

In Math, students will:

1. Use place value system understanding to perform operations with multi-digit whole number to billions and decimals to thousandths
2. Understand the relationship between fractions and decimals (denominators that are of 100)
3. Perform operations and solve problems with fractions and decimals
4. Represent and analyze patterns and relationships
5. Write and interpret numerical expressions
6. Use the four operations to represent and solve problems
7. Classify geometric shapes based on their attributes
8. Understand and compute volume
9. Graph points on the Cartesian coordinate plane within the first quadrant to solve problems
10. Solve problems involving measurement and conversions within measurement system
11. Represent and analyze data

In Social Studies, students will:

1. Analyze the principles of the Declaration of Independence to current events
2. Analyze ways by which citizens have effectively voiced opinions, monitored government, and brought about change both past and present
3. Explain how the purpose of government have been debated and changed across historical time periods to current times
4. Explain factors, past and present, that influence changes in our nation’s economy
5. Explain how scarcity, supply and demand, opportunity cost, income, labor, wages, and other economic concepts affect our nation’s past, present, and future
6. Identify and locate specific regions, states, capitals, river systems, and mountain ranges in the United States.
7. Outline and analyze the expansion of the United States

In Science, students will:

1. Make observations and/or measurements of an object’s motion to provide evidence that a pattern can be used to predict future motion
2. Develop a model that describes changes in particle motion, temperature, and state of a pure substance when thermal energy is added or removed
3. Predict how changes in either the amount of force applied to an object or the mass of the object affects the motion of the object
4. Develop a model to describe the movement of matter among plants, animals, decomposers, and the environment is changed by plants into matter this is food
5. Use models to describe that energy is stored in food
6. Discover patterns of daily changes in length and direction of shadows, amount of daylight, and the season appearance of some stars in the night sky