Math
- Place Value: thousands, millions, compare and order, expanded/standard form
- Addition and Subtraction Concepts: addition and subtraction of multidigit numbers up to 1,000,000; subtraction with regrouping
- Multiplication: multiply by one-digit numbers, multiply by two-digit numbers, multiply with regrouping, multiply three to four digit numbers
- Division: one-digit quotients, two-digit quotients, three-digit quotients, larger numbers in division, order of operations, finding the mean
- Measurement: measure with inches, measure with metric units, customary units of capacity/weight, temperature, time, elapsed time
- Statistics and Probability: pictographs, bar graphs, line graphs, line plots, circle graphs, probability
- Fractions: write fractions, fractions on a number line, equivalent fractions, LCM, GCF, add/subtract fractions (like and unlike denominators), improper fractions, add/subtract mixed numbers
- Geometry: points, lines, and line segments, rays and angles, parallel and perpendicular lines, circles, polygons, quadrilaterals, triangles, slides/flips/turns of an object
- Perimeter and Area: perimeter formulas, area formulas, solid figures with perimeter/area
Reading/Literature
Fiction
- Draw inferences from a text
- Identify theme
- Summarize a text
- Describe a character, setting or event from the story
- Identify story elements (characters, setting, theme, plot, conflict, resolution)
- Use predictions
- Compare and contrast stories with the same theme
- Use text-to-text connections, text-to-self connections, text-to-world connections
Non-Fiction
- Comprehension of a variety of leveled biography, autobiography, historical books
- Report on a topic or text
- Pull important facts as supporting details from an informational text and summarize main ideas
- Interpret information using graphs and maps to bring clarity to the text
- Use evidence to support points in a text
- Compare and contrast information from two texts on the same topic
- Explain how reasons and evidence support points in a text
Language Arts
- Apply word analysis skills and phonics to decode words
- Decipher unfamiliar words by identifying the root word
- Determine the difference between fact and opinion
- Write informational text using facts and details
- Write a narrative using descriptive details and conclusion
- Write a persuasive paragraph stating opinion, listing supporting details, and drawing a conclusion
- Describe a character and its traits
- Use the writing process (prewriting, drafting, revising, and editing) to strengthen writing
- Use adverbs, adjectives, and transition words to enhance writing
- Present a play with multiple speaking parts
- Conventions of standard English/grammar
- Identify similes and metaphors in a text and interpret their meanings
- Provide antonyms and synonyms to given words
Spelling
- Demonstrate the command of the conventions of standard English capitalization, punctuation and spelling words
Handwriting
- Cursive alphabet
Social Studies
- Geography: regions, states, capitals, counties, major cities, landforms, location, rivers, lakes, natural resources, climate, weather, map skills
- Government: laws, branches of government, House of Representatives, Senate, legislator, governor, judicial system, political parties, current events
- Economy: major industries in CT, goods and services in CT, supply and demand, imports and exports, taxes
- History and Culture: CT Native Americans, European colonists in CT, state cultures (food, events, and religions), state symbols and influential people
Science
- Forces and simple machines
- Matter, energy and electricity
- Water cycle and weather
Religion
- God's goodness discovered in creation
- The Ten Commandments
- The Lord's prayer
- Jesus, our role model
- The Beautitudes
- The Mysteries of the Rosary