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PRE-KINDERGARTEN

Pre-Kindergarten Learning Objectives

Spiritual Objectives

1. Student will be able to memorize Bible verses that teach various attributes of God and how we must respond to Him.
2. Student will be able to recall and restate 50% of the Bible stories that are taught.
3. Student will be able to state that God is the Creator of all things.
4. Student will be able to state that God created each of us as a special, unique person and recognize our differences as gifts from God.
5. Student will be able to state God°s promise to always be with us.
6. Student will be able to tell who Jesus is and why He came.
7. Student will be able to express they are a sinner and need Jesus as their Savior.
8. Student will be able to express their love for God through singing, praying and talking.
9. Student will be able to express their love for God by showing kindness to others ¬ being a good friend.
10. Student will be able to express their love for God by being obedient to what God commands ¬ by obeying parents, teachers and others in authority.
11. Student will be able to express their love for God by recalling things to be thankful for because everything comes from God.
12. Student will be able to state that God is powerful and can do all things.

Physical Objectives
Large Muscle

1. Student will be able to run smoothly.
2. Student will be able to balance on one foot for five (5) seconds.
3. Student will be able to jump over an obstacle with two feet.
4. Student will be able to hop on one foot for three (3) hops.
5. Student will be able to bounce a ball three (3) times consecutively.
6. Student will be able to throw a ball with some measure of accuracy.
7. Student will be able to catch a ball thrown to them from three (3) feet away.
8. Students will be able to move their legs in rhythm to a beat.
9. Students will be able to clap their hands in rhythm to a beat.
10. Student will be able to beat a drum in rhythm to a beat.

Small Muscle

1. Student will be able to draw these shapes: circle, oval, triangle, square, heart, diamond and rectangle
2. Student will be able to print his/her name in a linear fashion
3. Student will be able to hold a pencil correctly and use it with control
4. Student will be able to hold a scissors correctly and cut on a line with control
5. Student will be able to pour liquid into a glass with control

Language ¬ Pre-Reading Objectives

1. Student will be able to recognize their own printed name
2. Student will be able to write their own name
3. Student will be able to say their first and last name
4. Student will be able to identify 50% of the uppercase letter names
5. Student will be able to identify 50% of the lowercase letter names
6. Student will be able to recognize the sounds of 30% of the letters of the alphabet
7. Student will be able to listen and follow three-step directions
8. Student will be able to listen with interest to stories read aloud
9. Student will be able to recite familiar rhymes and fingerplays
10. Student will be able to recognize that words are read and written in a left to right progression

To be continued

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KINDERGARTEN

Instructional Learning Objectives

Bible:
Student will be able to:

• Demonstrate the following concepts through a daily Bible story
• Identify and understand the steps of creation
• Recognize that we must trust and obey God because He keeps His promises
• Understand that God cares for us and forgives us when we make mistakes
• Recognize that God uses ordinary people to do great things
• Demonstrate God°s rules for us through the study of the Bible
• Realize that when Jesus was alive on earth, He was fully human and showed His love for people through His miracles
• Demonstrate that each person is unique and that Jesus accepts each one
• Demonstrate that Jesus taught through parables and that love prevails in His Kingdom
• Realize that God hears and answers us when we pray
• Share ways and things for which we are thankful
• Recognize that Jesus is the Son of God through the story of His birth
• Demonstrate that Jesus suffered and died for people°s sins and then rose from the dead
• Realize that the Holy Spirit is active in the world today
• Praise God through the gift of singing
• Recite select Bible verses including: Genesis 8:22, Psalm 100, Isaiah 9:6, Lord°s Prayer, Joshua 1:8-9, Psalm 23, John 3:16, John 14:1

Christian Behavior/Personal and Social Development:
Student will be able to:

• Exhibit Christian behavior
• Respect authority
• Accept discipline
• Respect peers and other°s property
• Adapt to new situations
• Participate in class
• Take turns and share
• Exercise self control

Language Arts:
Student will be able to:

• Speak in complete sentences
• Follow simple oral instructions
• Respond appropriately to questions
• Write first and last name correctly starting with a capital letter
• Write capital and lower case letters correctly using block style manuscript
• Demonstrate concepts of print including capitalization of sentences/names, putting spaces between words and end of sentence punctuation
• Write a complete sentence using developmental spelling
• Write (using developmental spelling) in response to a prompt
• Demonstrate beginning concepts of alphabetical order

Math:
Student will be able to:

• Count by 1°s, 5°s and 10°s to 100
• Identify numbers to 20
• Write numbers to 30
• Sort objects by color, size and shape
• Complete color, shape and number patterns
• Interpret calendar concepts: days of the week, months of the year
• Demonstrate the terms: same, different, more than, less than
• Demonstrate positional terms: left, right, top, middle, bottom, under, over
• Compare and determine whether objects are shorter, taller, longer or the same
• Complete and draw conclusions of simple picture and bar graphs
• Tell time on the hour
• Solve simple addition and subtraction facts with the use of manipulatives
• Demonstrate the concept of simple addition and subtraction number sentences
• Demonstrate how to count coins using the penny

Reading:
Student will be able to:

• Identify capital and lower case letters by name
• Identify letter sounds of consonants
• Demonstrate vowels make more than one sound
• Retell a simple story using their own words
• Identify a three-step story sequence
• Give an example of a single syllable rhyming word
• Demonstrate concepts of reading/print including left to right, top to bottom and front to back progression
• Distinguish between reality and fantasy
• Recognize eight main color words
• Read sixteen sight words
• Exhibit readiness skills for reading
• Read simple books and sentences including rebus stories
• Recognize the title, author and main characters in a story

Science:
Student will be able to:

• Observe and tell about the weather
• Realize that weather changes from day to day
• Explain how the weather affects what we choose to wear
• Compare/contrast different seasons
• Identify different kinds of animals
• Compare baby animals and adult animals
• Develop concepts of more and less in number and volume
• Identify and classify by using their senses
• Identify basic body parts and their function
• Recognize healthy habits related to sleep, exercise and proper eating
• Recognize fire safety practices for school and home
• Predict, observe and explain the development of a chick through ¿hands-onî chick hatching unit
• Demonstrate proper dental hygiene
• Predict whether objects will sink or float
• Explore how a magnet works

Social Studies:
Student will be able to:

• Recognize that each person is different, unique and special
• Compare the different roles of family members
• Recognize problems people face in getting along and determine ways to solve these problems
• Recite the Pledge of Allegiance
• Demonstrate Native Americans as the first Americans
• Investigate why Pilgrims came to America and discuss how the Native Americans helped them
• Discriminate between a need and a want
• Compare/contrast between city and country
• Identify prominent individuals who made contributions to United States history

Work Habits and Attitudes:
Student will be able to:

• Put forth good effort
• Listen well
• Follow directions
• Work without disturbing others
• Complete work on time
• Work carefully
• Work independently
• Exhibit good attention span

In addition, Extended Day children will:

• Act out Bible stories
• Play learning games which reinforce letter names, sounds and basic sight words
• Make individual and class books which reinforce concepts of print, punctuation and word meaning
• Develop a love for reading through author studies
• Act out stories using masks, finger puppets and stick puppets
• Make art projects which reinforce skills and concepts from the morning
• Follow step-by-step directions and measure ingredients while making recipes during Kindergarten Cafÿ time
• Mix primary colors to get secondary colors
• Predict outcomes and participate in ¿hands-onî science activities
• Identify voting as a way groups of people make governance choices
• Recognize that the United States citizens vote for the president

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GRADE ONE

Instructional Learning Objectives

Bible:
Student will be able to:

• Recite Bible passages
• Identify the Bible as God°s Word
• Identify God°s plan in the lives of people in the Bible
• Identify the sin, prayer and salvation pattern in the book of Judges
• Retell and recall Bible stories covered Goals: Students will:
• Desire to serve God
• Accept the Bible°s call for repentance, faith, discipleship and praise
• Ask questions about the Bible and Christianity
• Relate Bible to daily life
• Love God, others, self

Language Arts:
Student will be able to:

• Recognize letter partners
• Identify letter sounds of consonants and vowels
• Identify letter sounds of consonant blends and digraphs
• Use correct formation of letters and numbers when writing with traditional style manuscript
• Spell level I high frequency words correctly
• Write two sentences using correct capitalization and punctuation
• Write a paragraph that includes a beginning, middle and end
• Write in response to a prompt
• Write about a specific content area
• Use a checklist to edit their writing
• Distinguish between nouns and verbs
• Speak using correct subject and verb agreement
• Recognize and write different sentence types from oral expression
• Develop phonics skills to spell and write words
• Use a word wall to help them spell words correctly
• Listen and speak effectively in a variety of situations
• Follow simple oral and written instructions
• Respond appropriately to questions
• Alphabetize a group of words based on the first letter
• Write and use commas in a series of words

Math:
Student will be able to:

• Count by 1°s, 5°s, and 10°s to 100
• Write numbers to 100 by 1°s, 5°s and 10°s
• Count by 2°s to 30
• Write the number(s) that come(s) before, after or between
• Identify, model, and write numbers to 100 in isolation
• Identify place value of ones, tens and hundreds
• Identify patterns in numbers 1-100
• Compare numbers to 100
• Read and use ordinal numbers first through tenth
• Know addition/subtraction facts through 12
• Compute addition/subtraction facts through 18
• Determine whether to add or subtract when solving a word problem
• Add up to 2 digit numbers without regrouping
• Use the communative and identify properties of addition
• Use a ruler to measure to the nearest centimeter/inch
• Use a balance to compare weight
• Identify the value of a penny, nickel, dime and quarter
• Count the value of different combinations of coins involving pennies, nickels and/or dimes
• Write amounts of money using the cent sign and decimal point
• Interpret calendar concepts: days of week and months of the year
• Read a calendar
• Sequence events in a day
• Tell time to the hour and half hour
• Identify fractions as part of a whole: _, 1/3, _
• Identify, classify and compare basic geometric shapes
• Count the number of sides and corners on a plane shape
• Use a geoboard to model points inside, outside and on a plane shape
• Draw plane figures
• Sort objects by attributes; count and record data
• Read and draw conclusions from tables and graphs
• Use objects, draw pictures and/or write a number sentence to solve story problems
• Solve simple number sentences with missing addends
• Solve problems involving identification and extension of patterns
• Use a calculator to add or subtract

Reading:
Student will be able to:

• Develop phonics skills to decode words
• Apply prior knowledge to gain meaning from print
• Use word analysis skills to decode print
• Read sight vocabulary words
• Read using proper phrasing as indicated by punctuation
• Demonstrate use of synonyms, antonyms and homographs
• Answer literal and inferential questions about a passage correctly
• Use prediction to process text
• Identify main idea and supporting details
• Classify literary works as fiction or non-fiction
• Identify story sequence
• Read independently
• Use appropriate language patterns during reading
• Compare and contrast two books or stories
• Make inferences about people, animals and/or locations
• Identify character traits and emotions
• Recognize stated cause and effect relationships
• Classify words according to common characteristics

Science:
Student will be able to:

• Compare and contrast living and non-living
• Identify and compare the basic parts of seeds and plants
• Identify needs of plants and animals
• Classify animals by the characteristics God has given them
• Identify different stages of growth for animals
• Identify parts of an insect
• Classify and compare objects by characteristics
• Identify characteristics of sun, moon and stars
• Investigate how senses are used to learn about God°s world
• Name the five senses and identify the uses of a particular sense
• Describe a good, daily health routine
• Describe and identify important personal safety rules
• Identify weather patterns
• Compare and contrast the different seasons

Social Studies:
Student will be able to:

• Recognize and discuss how individuals are both different and similar
• Recognize and discuss different types of families and relationships within families
• Classify examples of needs and wants
• Compare and contrast how food is obtained today and at the beginning of our country
• Recognize clothes as a basic need
• Identify different raw materials that clothes are made from
• Recognize a home as a basic need for protection
• Recognize and discuss that families are part of neighborhoods, communities and countries
• Analyze symbols that represent places on a map
• Identify the globe as a model of the earth
• Use a map key
• Recognize and use cardinal directions
• Recite their address and telephone number

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GRADE TWO

Instructional Learning Objectives

Bible:
Student will be able to:

• Remember and retell God°s mighty acts from creation - - Solomon
• Recall that God used prophets to call Israel and Judah to repentance and warn them of judgment
• Recall that God preserves and protects His people (i.e. Daniel, Esther) in difficult circumstances
• Recognize God°s work through foreign kings who did not serve Him
• Know and celebrate that God kept His promise to send a Savior
• Recall that John the Baptist prepared the way for Jesus° ministry by calling people to repent
• Recall three of Jesus° rules for the kingdom of heaven: love enemies, do good secretly, don°t worry
• Discuss that very few people understood who Jesus really was and why He came into the world
• Discuss the depth of Jesus° love for people
• Define parables as stories Jesus told to explain the kingdom of heaven
• Recall details of death and resurrection of Jesus
• Identify purpose of Jesus° death and respond with praise to risen Lord
• Recall how Holy Spirit gave power for spreading gospel and church grew
• Identify ways to live Christian life at home and school
• Recite Lord°s Prayer and recall its meaning
• Anticipate with joy our future in heaven

Language Arts (Phonics, Spelling, Penmanship):
Student will be able to:

• Speak, identify and write complete sentences and questions
• Use proper capitalization and end marks in sentences and questions
• Identify compound words, two syllable words and plurals
• Identify and write nouns, verbs, adjectives and adverbs
• Find words in a junior dictionary and word finder (jr. thesaurus)
• Identify all long and short vowel sounds in words
• Recognize that sentence meaning depends on word order
• Identify prefixes re- and un- and suffixes ¬ful and ¬less
• Write a paragraph/short story with a beginning, middle and ending
• Recognize that a pronoun takes the place of a noun
• Write a simple letter and address an envelope
• Use present and past tense verbs correctly when speaking
• Identify, form and write contractions
• Identify and write paragraphs with a main idea and details
• Identify and use a title page and table of contents
• Interpret and follow simple, oral or written directions
• Correctly and neatly form letters and numbers when printing (capitals and lower case)
• Correctly form lower case cursive letters and joinings
• Spell the first 120 high frequency words accurately in everyday writing

Math:
Student will be able to:

• Model and write addition and subtraction sentences
• Construct fact families for addition and subtraction
• Recite addition and subtraction facts to 18
• Record data on bar graphs
• Compare quantities from bar graphs
• Model, identify and continue odd and even, growing and color patterns
• Measure length using centimeters and inches, feet and yards to the nearest unit
• Estimate and measure using cups, pints and quarts
• Estimate and measure weight using pounds, liters and kilograms
• Model and write 2 digit numbers
• Count on and back by 1°s and 10°s
• Count by 2°s, 3°s, 4°s, 5°s, 25°s
• Count ordinal numbers 1st through 31st
• Tell time to 5 and 15 minute intervals
• Demonstrate equivalent amounts of money using combinations of U.S. coins
• Solve double digit addition and subtraction problems
• Identify basic two and three dimensional geometric shapes in the real world
• Read and solve number stories
• Demonstrate calendar concepts and skills
• Name and shade a given fractional part
• Use comparison symbols (<, >, =)
• Read and write three digit numbers
• Identify place value in three digit numbers

Reading:
Student will be able to:

• Recognize the difference between reality and fantasy
• Decode words by identifying hard and soft c and g sounds, clusters, unstressed schwa, vowel digraphs, r- and l- controlled vowels
• Identify homophones, synonyms and antonyms
• Recall or write a story using sequence
• Alphabetize to the 2nd letter
• Develop comprehension through inference, word referents, drawing conclusions, predicting outcomes, characterization, cause and effect
• Interpret figurative language
• Classify groups of words
• Develop good oral reading skills (including expressiveness and smoothness)
• Identify main idea and supporting details

Science:
Student will be able to:

• Compare and contrast characteristics of plant and meat eating dinosaurs
• Define in simple terms the difference between endangered and extinct
• Identify and diagram the different parts of a plant and seed
• Use the scientific method to predict, observe and describe the life cycle of a plant
• Describe the four habitats of pond, forest, seashore and desert and identify some animals that live in each one
• Demonstrate how magnets work and locate the poles on at least two different kinds of magnets
• Demonstrate how like poles of a magnet repel and opposite poles attract
• Make a temporary magnet
• Identify several uses for magnets in daily life
• Describe ways we know air is all around us and in water
• Identify various water sources
• Describe a water cycle
• Identify uses of air and water in recreation and everyday life
• Hypothesize about ways to keep air and water clean
• Explain how day and night are determined by movement of the earth around the sun
• Identify ways people and animals depend on the sun
• Describe ways people should protect themselves from the sun
• Observe and identify clouds that bring harmful or helpful weather
• Discuss safety rules at home, school, on playgrounds, in cars and on bicycles
• Recognize that strangers can be dangerous
• Discuss various ways to keep safe from strangers

Social Studies:
Student will be able to:

• Determine directions on a map and use a map key
• Identify north pole, south pole and equator, different land and water forms (desert, mountain, valley, lake, etc.)
• State the name of their town, state, country and continent
• Discuss the importance of rules and laws in a community
• Recognize personal responsibility for pollution awareness and control
• Identify ways to reduce, reuse and recycle
• Define history as the story of our past
• Compare and contrast the different cultural influences in a community
• Recognize that our country has symbols
• Identify holidays and recognize their significance
• Compare and contrast differences and similarities between cultures in other countries
• Discuss the importance of communication
• Identify landmarks from around the world (Statue of Liberty, machu picchu, Sydney Opera House, Great Wall of China, pyramids)

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GRADE THREE

Instructional Learning Objectives

Bible:
Student will be able to:

• Recall the story of creation
• Describe the first sin and the effects of sin
• Retell the story of the flood and the covenant with Noah
• Recall the story of the Tower of Babel and the scattering of people
• Recall the story of Abraham°s call and God°s covenant with him, and the testing of Abraham°s faith
• Identify Abraham°s family as the family from which God will bring forth his son, Jesus
• Recognize God°s use of the events in the lives of Isaac, Jacob and Joseph to further His plan recalling that God°s ways are not the same as our ways
• Recall the stories of the exodus recognizing God°s power and His care of His people
• Identify the fulfillment of promises God made to Abraham and his descendants
• Recall the stories of the giving of God°s law (Ten Commandments) and apply them to their lives
• Recall the important characteristics of the tabernacle and Israelite worship
• Recall stories of Israel°s journey from Mount Sinai to the Jordan River, including the 40 years in the wilderness
• Recognize God°s holiness, anger with sin, and forgiveness in His relationship with His chosen people
• Identify the Israelites° conquest of Canaan as the fulfillment of God°s promise to Abraham
• Recall that the land of Canaan was divided up among the 12 tribes of Israel
• Identify how God used Israel°s enemies and the judges to preserve Israel
• Recite memorized Bible passages that help summarize the story of God°s people

English:
Student will be able to:

• Recognize statements, questions, commands and exclamations
• Identify the subject and predicate in a sentence
• Define and identify common, proper, singular, plural and possessive nouns
• Define and identify action verbs, verbs of being, main verbs and helping verbs
• Recognize the present and past tense of a verb
• Recognize subject, object and possessive pronouns
• Define and use the comparative and superlative forms of adjectives
• Use the articles a, an, the
• Define and use adverbs
• Use capitalization when writing proper nouns, titles, initials and abbreviations
• Write sentences with subject/verb agreement
• Write sentences using commas with introductory words, nouns of direct address, and with items in a series
• Demonstrate how to write a friendly letter and address an envelope
• Demonstrate the use of quotation marks with direct quotations and titles of written works
• Identify compounds, contractions, synonyms, antonyms and homophones
• Locate information in a dictionary, encyclopedia and thesaurus
• Summarize information in a paragraph
• Discriminate between fact and opinion

Math:
Student will be able to:

• Use fact families to find differences
• Find sums of three addends
• Solve addition problems of 2, 3 and 4-digit numbers with trading
• Use mental math technique of breaking apart to find sums
• Recognize if you need an exact answer or an estimate to a problem
• Subtract 2, 3 and 4-digit numbers with trading
• Use addition to check a subtraction problem
• Solve multiple step problems
• Round to the nearest ten, hundred, or dollar
• Identify the place value of digits in numbers having up to six digits
• Tell time to the minute using a.m. and p.m.
• Calculate ending time given elapsed time
• Read a calendar
• Count amounts of money and count out money for change
• Solve problems with extra data
• Read and make bar graphs and picture graphs using data in a tally chart
• Choose fair and unfair games based on probability
• Solve problems using a calculator
• Memorize multiplication and division facts through the 9°s
• Recognize the associative property to find the product of three factors
• Use mental math to find the product of a 1-digit number and a multiple of ten
• Multiply 2-digit numbers by 1-digit numbers with trading and with 3-digit answers
• Identify plane figures and space figures
• Identify polygons, segments, points and angles
• Identify the line of symmetry in geometric figures and objects
• Identify figures that are congruent
• Identify parallel and intersecting lines
• Compute the perimeter of objects
• Choose whether to use inch, feet, yards or miles when measuring lengths
• Use pounds and ounces in measuring weights
• Use cups, pints, quarts and gallons to measure capacity
• Measure temperature in degrees Fahrenheit

Phonics:
Student will be able to:

• Identify initial, medial and final consonants
• Recognize the hard and soft c and g sounds
• Identify short and long vowels
• Recognize consonant blends and digraphs
• Use y as a vowel and as a consonant
• Identify R-controlled vowels
• Recall the words that make up contractions
• Recognize prefixes added to base words
• Apply the rules for adding suffixes to words
• Recognize vowel pairs, digraphs and dipthongs
• Identify syllables in words
• Memorize ten rules for dividing words into syllables
• Categorize synonymns, antonymns, homonymns, homographs and contractions
• Use guide words to locate words in the dictionary

Spelling:
Student will be able to:

• Recall and spell correctly the high-frequency words used in writing from 2nd grade
• Spell correctly 180 new high-frequency words

Recall:
Student will be able to:

• Answer literal and inferential questions about a passage correctly
• Use story vocabulary words correctly in sentences
• Identify main idea and supporting details
• Recognize word referents
• Describe story elements
• Identify story sequence
• Demonstrate long word decoding strategies
• Use context clues to determine meanings of unknown words
• Demonstrate use of synonymns, antonymns, homophones and homographs
• Distinguish between reality and fantasy
• Predict outcomes and draw conclusions from given information
• Identify cause and effect
• Identify book parts
• Make comparisons and classify information given
• Explain figurative language
• Use characterization to describe characters in story
• Recognize meanings of signs and symbols
• Read books independently and complete book reports

Science:
Student will be able to:

• Recognize animal species have a predictable life cycle, in which offspring are produced that will develop into adults similar to their parents
• Describe the life cycles living things go through: growth, development, reproduction and death
• Identify the four stages in a complete metamorphosis: egg, larva, pupa, adult
• Identify the three stages in an incomplete metamorphosis: egg, nymph, adult
• Identify the parts of an egg ¬ the first stage in the life cycle of an animal
• Contrast how adult animals vary in how they take care of their young to ensure that their young survive to adulthood
• Recognize that flowering and cone-bearing plants have life cycles that include pollination and the formation and dispersal of seeds
• Compare the sun, moon, and earth by their physical features, sizes and locations relative to each other
• Describe the sun as a star that gives off heat and light essential for life on earth
• Explain that the earth rotates on its axis once a day, the moon revolves around earth about once a month, and earth revolves around the sun once a year
• Name the planets that revolve around the sun
• Recognize that revolution and rotation within the sun-earth-moon system result in seasonal changes and eclipses of the sun and moon
• Recognize that water, an essential natural resource, is found on earth°s surface, in the atmosphere and underground
• Describe the water cycle
• Explain causes and effects of water pollution, how to prevent it, and how it can be cleaned up
• Recognize living things in an environment are interdependent
• Explain how living things have structural and behavioral adaptations that allow them to survive in their environments
• Recognize living things change their environments and respond to changes in their environments
• Explain how the human body needs the nutrients in food for energy and for building and repairing body parts
• Describe a healthful diet, tell where nutrients come from, and read nutritional labels
• Explain how the body uses the foods we eat
• Recognize the importance of healthy teeth
• Describe the digestive system and how the body rids itself of wastes

Social Studies:
Student will be able to:

• Demonstrate the ability to locate states on a map of the United States
• Recognize the abbreviated name of states
• Use inset maps and intermediate directions on maps
• Describe a community and identify some ways in which communities are alike and different
• Explain what it means to be a member of a community
• Explain the differences between goods and services
• Identify different kinds of landforms and water
• Compare the advantages and disadvantages of living in river communities, mountain communities and desert communities
• Describe a rural community and different kinds of farms in the U.S.
• Describe urban communities and summarize why cities started and why people live in them
• Describe suburban communities
• Summarize the way of life and homes of Native Americans who lived in the Northwest Coast, Southwest, Plains and Northeast culture areas
• Explain who the Pilgrims were and why they came to America
• Describe how the Wampanoags helped the Pilgrims
• Assess why Thanksgiving is an important holiday
• Identify reasons why some Americans chose to travel west and describe what life was like on a wagon train
• Summarize what life was like on the plains and a typical day for pioneer children
• Identify the levels of government
• Compare the function of national government to that of state government
• Identify and describe the main responsibilities of Congress, the President, and the Supreme Court
• Identify and describe our national symbols

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GRADE FOUR

Instructional Learning Objectives

Bible:
Student will be able to:

• Discover the origins of the Bible
• Use a Bible dictionary, concordance, and maps for Bible study
• Study the time of the judges, kings and prophets of Israel and Judah
• Respond in writing, orally, physically, emotionally and artistically to the Bible lessons
• Evaluate results of obedience and disobedience to God in the Old Testament
• Name the books of the Old Testament in order
• Memorize ten Bible passages
• Summarize main ideas from each of the Old Testament books
• Consider the faithfulness of God revealed in the events of the Old Testament

Language Arts:

Spelling:
Student will be able to:

• Continue to spell high frequency (top 720?) words
• Memorize additional words from curriculum areas

Handwriting:
Student will be able to:

• Use correct capital and lower case cursive for all submitted classwork

English:
Student will be able to:

• Recognize nouns (common, proper)
• Recognize pronouns (subject, object)
• Recognize verbs (action, linking, be forms)
• Recognize adjectives (describers, articles)
• Apply capitalization and punctuation (, . ! ? ¿ ¿) to all written work
• Use dictionary and encyclopedia for references
• Apply the steps of the writing process to prompted and self-chosen topics
• Revise rough drafts, with content improvements and proofreading, to the final copy stage
• Write narrative, expository, and persuasive paragraphs that show evidence of purpose

Math:
Student will be able to:

• Briefly review the operations of basic addition and subtraction facts
• Read and write numbers up to 9 digits and recognize their place value
• Round numbers to the nearest thousand
• Compare and order numbers
• Count change and estimate money
• Add and subtract up to 5 digit numbers with regrouping
• Solve multi-step problems in addition and subtraction
• Decide if one needs an exact answer or an estimate to a problem
• Read and be able to make various graphs: bar, pictograph, line
• Review the basic facts of multiplication
• Multiply a 2, 3, and 4 digit by a 1 and 2 digit factor
• Identify the operation of basic division
• Divide by a 1 and 2 digit divisor, with and without remainders
• Reinforce the concept of fractions and introduce the concept of lowest term fractions
• Recognize time and customary measurement units
• Identify, classify, and compare geometric concepts
• Reinforce measurement concepts using metric units
• Introduce decimal concepts
• Compare addition and subtraction of fractions and decimals

Reading:
Student will be able to:

Student will be able to:
• Develop vocabulary through use of glossary, context and discussion
• Answer literal and inferential comprehension questions, orally and in written complete sentences
• Routinely summarize story events in sequence
• Justify plot predictions
• Read orally with appropriate stops and expression
• Identify genres (realistic fiction, historical fiction, folktale, fantasy, biography)
• Find causes and effects within stories
• Recognize characters° traits, authors° purposes (explain, inform, entertain, persuade), and first/third person point of view
• Draw conclusions and make inferences based on story knowledge
• Distinguish between fact and opinion
• Recall characters and plot summaries in at least two books read independently per month
• Listen to a variety of teacher-read chapter books

Science:
Student will be able to:

• Identify the basic needs of animals
• Recognize animals make adaptations in order to survive their environment
• Classify all living things and recognize the characteristics of different animal groups
• Describe how erosion, weathering and glaciers shape the land
• Identify different rocks and explain their formation
• Recognize the importance of natural resources and relate how conservation of natural resources is essential
• Describe the consequences of producing and disposing of trash and the necessity of recycling
• Examine the changes in the earth°s atmosphere that affects daily weather conditions
• Recognize how indicators such as air pressure, clouds, and the use of weather maps can help predict weather
• Determine that seasonal weather changes and climate differences are the result of several factors
• Identify the organs and the functions of the respiratory, circulatory, and excretory systems in the human body
• Recognize the health and nutrition measures that prevent and fight disease
• Investigate the harmful effects of nicotine, alcohol and other drugs
• Distinguish that matter has mass and takes up space
• Explain the effects of heat loss or gain and of physical and chemical changes
• Define static electricity, current electricity, and magnetism and explain how each is produced

Social Studies:
Student will be able to:

• Define the study of geography and why it is important
• Identify physical characteristics of the United States including landforms, climate, weather, ecosystems, and natural resources
• Define region, recognizing that regions and boundaries may change
• Discuss cause and effect of immigration and migration in the United States
• Describe the system of government of the United States and the rights and responsibilities of American citizens
• Identify major physical and cultural characteristics of the four regions of the United States: Northeast, South, Midwest and West
• Locate the fifty states of the United States on a map and identify their capitals
• Explain how geographic and historic factors have affected U.S. regions
• Discover how geography influences lifestyles, cultures, ecosystems, industry, and architecture of a region
• Summarize the interdependence of world countries
• Compare the United States with the land and people of its neighbors
• Gather information from maps, diagrams, and charts
• Report on individual states
• Evaluate man°s stewardship of God°s land
• Respond artistically to God°s creation seen specifically in the United States

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GRADE FIVE

Instructional Learning Objectives

Bible:
Student will be able to:

• Recognize writers and scribes were key in recording the biblical story (Pentateuch, History, Poetry) using various literature styles
• Identify the Biblical story as our story, too
• Examine the Biblical books of Poetry and compare the writers° emotions to similar emotions we experience ourselves
• Discuss the role Greek and Roman culture served as preparation for the coming of Jesus
• Summarize Jesus° life on earth as a fulfillment of O.T. prophecy, key to our salvation
• Examine the life of Christ as written in the four gospels, and recognize salvation is ours through believing in Jesus Christ
• Summarize the stories of Jesus° later life on earth (Lazarus, Palm Sunday, death, resurrection, ascension)
• Trace the life of the early church
• Compare and contrast difficulties of the early church with its growth
• Discuss Paul°s role as apostle
• Examine New Testament letters to specific churches (Corinth, Thessolonica) and recognize them as instruction and encouragement
• Discuss Revelation as a symbolic picture of the entire Bible story

Christian Behavior:
Student will be able to:

• Show love to one another (John 13:34)
• Accept one another (Romans 15:7)
• Care for one another (I Cor. 12:25)
• Encourage one another (I Thess. 5:11, Heb. 3:13)
• Forgive one another (Ephesians 4:32)
• Be at peace with one another (Mark 9:50)
• Honor one another (Romans 12:10)
• Serve one another (Gal. 5:13)

English:
Student will be able to:

• Identify understood subjects and direct objects
• Choose base words and root words
• Recognize and properly use troublesome verb pairs
• Use subject, object and possessive pronouns correctly
• Identify linking verbs and predicate adjectives
• Sequence details in descriptive paragraphs
• Distinguish between adjectives and adverbs
• Locate prepositions and objects of prepositions
• Correctly punctuate sentences with quotations
• Rewrite run-on sentences
• Diagram sentences containing seven parts of speech
• Write and illustrate their own story
• Express their personal convictions in paragraphs of 3-5 complete sentences
• Demonstrate legible cursive handwriting, with proper size, shape, slant, spacing and smoothness

Math:
Student will be able to:

• Compute multiplying whole numbers by a 3 digit number
• Determine greatest common factor and least common multiple/denominator
• Compute multiplying decimals, fractions, mixed numbers
• Compute dividing decimals, fractions, mixed numbers, and whole numbers with 2 and 3 digit quotients
• Convert decimals and fractions
• Compute addition and subtraction of decimals, fractions and mixed numbers
• Apply strategies for estimating and rounding whole numbers and decimals
• Compute mentally multiplying and dividing decimals by 10, 100, 1000
• Compare and organize whole numbers, decimals, fractions and mixed numbers
• Understand and compute equivalent fractions
• Express fractions in lowest terms, mixed numbers and improper fractions
• Apply and recognize the commutative, associative and distributive properties
• Construct and read numbers through 12 digits and decimals using 10ths and 100ths
• Demonstrate mean, median, mode, and range
• Recognize algebra formulas
• Organize and solve simple and multiple-step problems
• Apply various strategies in problem solving
• Interpret remainders in division problem solving
• Compute and estimate measurements in metric
• Determine and measure time in seconds, minutes, hours and days

Penmanship:
Student will be able to:

• Make capital and lower case letters correctly for required assignments

Reading:
Student will be able to:

• Sequence story elements
• Recognize cause and effect
• Analyze character traits
• Locate main ideas, topic sentences and details
• Make inferences and draw conclusions from text
• Identify author°s point of view and purpose
• Compare and contrast reading selections
• Summarize and organize information
• Use dictionary, glossary and reference resources
• Differentiate between forms of writing: biography, autobiography, expository, folklore, historical fiction and informational text
• Write personal responses to reading selections
• Develop a habit of independently reading two books a month
• Prove comprehension of independent reading that has difficulty level within one year of grade level (or above)
• Participate in group studies, reading and discussing three Newberry Medal books

Science:
Student will be able to:

• Explain photosynthesis, respiration, transpiration and reproduction of plants
• Describe how diverse groups within the plant kingdom have specific adaptations that enable them to survive
• Explain how organisms live in specific ecosystems and take part in cycles of energy and matter
• Describe how organisms suffer when ecosystems and cycles are disturbed
• Recognize how light and sound are forms of energy that travel in waves
• Explain how light and sound can be described by their speed, wavelength, frequency and amplitude
• Explain how the skeletal, muscular and nervous systems are primary body systems
• Recognize the harmful effects of drugs to the body
• Explain what energy is, how it can be transferred, and how it can change forms
• Recognize three simple machines and how they make work easier

Social Studies:
Student will be able to:

• Describe major landforms of the USA and compare the diversity of Americans on a regional basis
• Describe migration patterns to the Americas and explain how American civilizations developed
• Discuss how cultures were affected by migration
• Explain causes that led toward the exploration of the ¿New Worldî and the effect of this European discovery on indigenous peoples in the Americas
• Compare the life, religion, and interaction of early American settlers with Native Americans
• Immigration patterns to the American colonies, identify how the geography and climate were ideal for colonial growth
• Identify causes of the French and Indian War, and effects of Britain°s victory
• Discuss causes leading up to the Revolutionary War, explain strategies of both sides in the war and the role of European nations in the war
• Analyze the effects of the Revolutionary War on lives of people in America and Europe
• Summarize the writing and ratification process of the U.S. Constitution
• Compare and contrast Hamilton, Jefferson, and Madison
• Describe the War of 1812
• Discuss Jacksonian politics and the removal of the Native Americans
• Identify growing differences between the North and South
• Explain the impact of the American Westward movement

Spelling:
Student will be able to:

• Spell 1,500 words most frequently used in writing
• Improve and expand spelling accuracy in everyday writing
• Apply and use related word forms and other words pertinent to student writing needs
• Perform useful proofreading skills
• Integrate spelling with listening, speaking, reading, writing and thinking