Reads and performs melodic/complex rhythmic notation.

Uses percussion, bells, and keyboard instrument for repetition, accompaniment, and composition.

Sings and listens to a variety of musical styles and cultures.

Explores a variety of composers.

Sings in unison and two part harmony.

Uses good vocal tone production.

Performs three concerts per year, and competes at I.E.S.A. State Organizational Contest.

Sings a variety of musical styles.

Assembles and maintains instruments.

Produces good tone quality

Reads and plays notes and rhythms.

Performs two concerts per year.  

Uses various mediums including: drawing, painting, printmaking, sculpture, textiles, and design materials.

Uses horizon line and perspective.

Identifies and applies art principles of design, such as: repetition, movement, contrast, balance, emphasis, unity, and variety.

Identifies and applies art vocabulary and safety procedures.

Explores various cultures, art styles, and artists.

Increases in strength, muscular endurance, cardiovascular endurance, power, flexibility, agility, and speed.

Participates in an environment that promotes positive self-image

Understands the importance of regular fitness routine Improves personal fitness level.

Learns basic skills of each sport.

Understands and applies general rules of games.

Learns basic safety and fair play rules.

Follows basic school rules to develop skills of teamwork, cooperation, and sportsmanship.

Applies rules and strategies in game situations.

Enjoys a variety of physical activities.

Appropriately uses basic information technology terms (e.g. graphics, file types, web terms).

Touch types accurately at an appropriate rate. Correctly uses the following functions: spell check, thesaurus, and grammar check.

Develops basic spreadsheet skills and knows terms including column, row, cell and formula.

Uses bookmarks, age appropriate search engines, and URL’s provided by the teacher to access on-line information relevant to their schoolwork.

Uses presentation software to develop more complex reports and presentations incorporating sound and images in a variety of subject areas.

Demonstrates respect for the privacy and rights of others in their use of information technology.

Reads a variety of types of literature: realistic fiction, historical fiction, fantasy, science fiction, poetry, myths, legends, and tall tales.

Identifies similes, metaphors, and personification in literature.

Uses context clues to build vocabulary and to gain meaning from a selection of literature.

Recognizes character traits, settings, and plots.

Understands cause and effect relationships.

Uses prior knowledge, predicting, summarizing, making inferences, and sequencing in reading comprehension.

Uses a variety of reference materials.

Demonstrates knowledge of grammar.

Organizes thoughts to express oneself clearly in classroom situationsShares written work orally.

Uses basic rules for capitalization, punctuation, complete sentences, and subject/verb agreement.

Uses vivid and expressive language in writing and speaking.

Listens effectively to directions given, information shared, and non-verbal cues in order to comprehend and interpret information.

Writes compositions of five paragraphs: narrative, expository, and persuasive.

Writes creative material.

Uses the five step writing process as a tool for written expression:

Brainstorming and gathering information,

Writing a rough draft,

Sharing and receiving feedback within a small group,

Making revisions and final draft,

Sharing finished product with others.

Writes for a variety of purposes.

Spells fifth grade word lists correctly.

Maintains spelling rules and spelling generalizations.

Uses resources to verify standar spelling(ex: dictionary)

Self-edits for spelling and grammar.

Finds perimeter, area, and volume of two and three dimensional objects.

Compares and orders whole numbers, decimals, and fractions.

Adds, subtracts, and multiplies common fractions with like and unlike denominators.

Measures length, weight, and capacity using customary and metric units.

Collects, interprets and organizes data on various types of graphs.

Reads, writes and identifies numbers with place value through billions and decimals through thousandths.

Adds, subtracts, multiplies, and divides whole numbers, decimals, and money.

Solves one and two-step problems using whole numbers, decimals, and fractions, with and without estimation.

Solves word problems using various strategies, with and without estimation.

Identifies plant parts and describes the process of photosynthesis.

Analyzes the life cycle of butterflies.

Traces the eating patterns of owls using owl pellets.

Explains natural cycles and patterns in the solar system.

Identifies easily recognizable star patterns.

Investigates the role of karst in our water system.

Understands the relationship between work and energy.

Designs, constructs, revises and evaluates milk carton cars.

     Demonstrates the skills of observing, communicating, classifying, measuring, modeling, inferring, defining operationally, predicting, and investigating in order to conduct a scientific experiment.

Identifies reasons for exploration and settlement of North America.

Compares and contrasts native Americans from different time periods and regions.

Identifies noteworthy inventors and the impact of their inventions (ex: John Deere, Thomas Edison, Cyrus McCormack, George Washington Carver, Henry Ford).

Identifies the causes and effects of the American Revolution, including the Declaration of Independence.

Understands the changes in the make-up of maps and globes due to early exploration and discovery.

Understands the lifestyles of European settlers in different parts of North America.

Cites the major factors in the settlement of the American West in the mid 1800's.

Interprets information from a variety of sources: tables, graphs, time lines, maps, globes, diagrams, charts, and atlas.

Demonstrates the use of various different types of maps and geographic tools.

Understands the development and importance of the United States Constitution and the system of checks and balances.

Understands the reasons for writing the Constitution and the importance of its basic elements.