Cross & Crown School

Cognitive Development

Children will understand concepts of and will be able to develop the ability to:

Mathematics

• Convert improper fractions to mixed numbers and vice versa
• Determine ration and percent
• Convert common fractions to decimals and percents

Geometry

• Identify and determine diameter and radius of circles
• Classify and construct triangles, quadrilaterals and angles
• Use scale and scale drawings
• Measure and construct angles
• Use formulas to find volume in cubic units
• Explore relationships between perimeter and area
• Perform experiments or simulations to determine probabilities, including whether a game is fair or unfair, and if outcomes are equally likely
• Make predictions that are based on experimental or theoretical probabilities
• Discover the uses of probability in the real world

Reading

Identify organizational patterns

- Identify a series of related cause and effect relationships
- Make and defend inferences and conclusions
- Distinguish between first person and third person point of view
- Evaluate quality of reading material and its content based on author’s purpose
- Adjust reading rate to match purpose

1. Skim, scan

Phonics and Word Identification

1. Identify imagery
2. Sensor language and exaggeration
3. Multi-meaning words
4. Take notes from lectures, reading, view and interviewing
5. Use a study technique such as PQRST (Preview, Question, Read, Study, Test)
6. Further use of library skills

- Spell 1000 most frequently used words
- Accessing Information/Reference Skills/Study Skills

Language and Literature Skills

Language

1. Write biographies, letters to the editor, narratives, technical descriptions and directions, problem solutions, scripts, poetry and sequels
2. Prepare table of contents and bibliographies
3. Use appropriate forms of positive, comparative and superlative adjectives and adverbs
4. Use independent clauses, dependent clauses and complements to clarify ideas

Literature

1. Character, plot and theme development
2. Identification of literary forms
3. Creative writing
4. Cross curricular stories
5. Identify characters
6. Make inferences about character motives and feelings
7. Find main idea
8. Monthly book report

Science

• Use technological tools such as calculators, computers and scientific instruments in scientific investigations
• Trace the origin of food for all animals to plants
• Illustrate that matter is recycled into new organisms as living things die and decay
• Identify ways humans change physically and cognitively as they mature
• Contrast the roles of human body systems in helping the organism function as a complete unit
• Identify the cell as the building block of complex organisms
• Identify organisms consisting of one cell which carries on all the basic life functions
• Identify common patterns of inter-dependence among organisms
• Recognize that the patterns of stars remain the same, but their locations appear to change relative to the Earth’s revolution
• Predict how objects on or near the Earth are affected by the Earth’s gravity
• Recognize soil as a combination of weathered rocks and organic matter
• Contrast how rocks and minerals vary in their composition
• Describe how the speed of sound waves changes with the nature of the medium
• Identify light as a form of energy and recognize its properties
• Describe how sound and light waves are detected by sense organs
• Describe the relationship between energy, forces and motion

Social Studies

Map and Globe Skills

1. Identify and distinguish between cultural and natural features
2. Use symbols and keys to acquire information from resource, product, historic, physical, political and economic maps

Information Processing Skills

1. Identify issues and/or problems
2. Identify social studies reference resources to use for specific purpose
3. Distinguish between fact and opinion as pertaining to current events
4. Analyze information from two or more sources for agreements, contractions, facts and opinions
5. Draw conclusions and make generalizations
6. Interpret political cartoons

The Age of Expansion

1. Explain how inventions and new technological discoveries impacted daily life throughout late 19^th and early 20^th century
2. Describe the effects Westward Movement had on the U.S. as a nation and how these effects are evident today

An Emerging Nation

1. Explain how the U.S. emerged as world power and the role of the U.S. as a world leader today
2. Explain why government regulations and reforms may have been needed in the early 20^th century – are they needed today?
3. Determine how urbanization changed the lifestyles of the American people in the early 20^th century and in our contemporary world

Global Conflicts

1. Explain the role the United States played in World War I and how these war experiences affected political, economic, military and lifestyle changes
2. Cite examples of how the lifestyles of the people of the U.S. changed during the Jazz Age
3. Describe how the economic decline contributed to the Great Depression and its effects on the U.S. politically, economically and socially
4. Explain the role the U.S. played in World War II and how these war experiences affected political, economic, military and lifestyle changes

Decades of Change

1. Explain how the civil Rights Movements from World War II to the present affected the development of the U.S. politically, economically and socially
2. Examine the major cultural changes from the 1950’s to the present and how they affected the political, social, environmental and economic development of U.S.
3. Describe how the U.S. was affected politically, economically and culturally by involvement in the Cold War
4. Analyze the political, economic and social involvement of the U.S. in global conflicts from 1950 to the present

Looking Towards the Future

1. Analyze balancing demands of technology and economics to provide healthy environment for the future
2. Prepare to be productive citizens in the 21^st century

General Music

• Demonstrate understanding of relationship of shortest unit of sound to longer units of sound using standard notation
• Sing developmentally appropriate songs with increasing accuracy in pitch using an expanded range
• Demonstrate an aural awareness of the tonal center
• Sing in harmony by performing rounds, echo songs, partner songs and/or simple ostinati
• Perform simple harmonic parts vocally or instrumentally
• Recognize the sounds of selected folk, electronic and orchestral instruments
• Identify string, woodwind, brass, percussion, keyboard and electronic
• Distinguish between the sounds of bands and orchestras
• Identify the names of the line and space notes of the treble staff

Visual Arts

• Create sculpture that is closed and solid, or open and hollow, or a combination
• Use several tints and shades of one color to produce a monochromatic composition
• Identify properties of texture on 2-D and 3-D surfaces
• Recognize how light and shadow reveal textures
• Identify means of expressing unity in a composition
• Describe, analyze and judge artwork (student and/or master) based on specified criteria
• Explore various art careers such as architect, graphic designer, painter, photographer and video artist
• Recognize that artwork from different cultures may have the same subject or theme

Health/Physical Education

• Understand how the healthy body combats disease and illness
• Identify ways to manage stress and adjust to change
• Identify the parts and major functions of the endocrine/immune system
• Identify factors affecting fitness levels
• Discuss why each health-related fitness component is important to health
• Identify four of the five health-related fitness components
• Count exercise heart rate and adjust activity levels