§         Use the writing process, learning to revise and edit pieces with a partner, for a variety of purposes.

§         To write personal narratives with extended descriptions of people, places and dialogue.

§         To write paragraphs to inform and persuade, including how-to, compare/contrast, and summaries.

§         To create fictional stories and poems using figurative language.

§         Develop legible cursive handwriting using correct letter formation and proper spacing and slant.

§         Learn assigned spelling words at instructional level and develop strategies to self-correct spelling.

§         Participate in formal oral activities (discussion, book reviews).

§         Listen and respond orally to a variety of literature.

§         Actively listen and participate in cooperative learning situations.

§         Be introduced to formal study skill and test-taking strategies.

§         Effectively use reference materials for research and write reports using more than one source.

§         Learn note taking, outlining, paraphrasing, and summarizing techniques.

§         Apply correct usage, capitalization, spelling, and punctuation in final drafts of compositions.

§         Use correct paragraphing, underlining, quotation marks, plural possessives.

§         Determine functions of nouns, verbs, adjectives, adverbs, and prepositions.

§         Vary sentence structure.

§         Write to an informative prompt.

§         Understand the function and placement of parentheses in number sentences.

§         Read and write numerals to hundred-millions; give the value of the digits in numeral to hundred-millions.

§         Give equivalencies between hundredths (fraction, decimal, percent).

§         Have a successful strategy for adding/subtracting multi-digit numbers.

§         Know multiplication, extended multiplication, and division facts.

§         Understand relationship between multiplication and division.

§         Solve whole-number division problems.

§         Solve multiplication and division number stories.

§         Find equivalent fractions for given fractions.

§         Identify the whole for fractions and fractional parts of a group.

§         Round whole numbers to a given place.

§         Solve multiplication/division problems involving multiples of 10, 100, and 1000.

§         Apply and explain problem solving strategies.

§         Name, draw, and label line segments (to the nearest cm. and ¼ inch), lines, and rays.

§         Name, draw, and label angles, triangles, and quadrangles.

§         Identify and describe right angles, parallel lines, and line segments.

§         Display data with a line plot, bar graph, or tally chart.

§         Use statistical landmarks, maximum, and minimum.

§         Find area of a figure by counting unit squares and fractions of unit squares inside the figure.

§         Identify the various landforms.

§         Demonstrate an understanding of erosion, earthquakes, and volcanoes.

§         Describe the layers of the earth and types of rocks and minerals.

§         Describe the ocean floor and water movement.

§         Explain the importance of ecology (food chains, food webs, and communities).

§         Compare and contrast sound waves and light waves.

§         Analyze the interrelationship between electricity and magnetism.

§         Construct a series circuit and a parallel circuit.

§         Describe how light waves react to transparent, translucent, and opaque materials.

§         Explain how vibrations produce different sounds.

§         Identify major explorers of the Americas and locate their countries.

§         Recognize the influence of geography on the economic and culture growth.

§         Differentiate between the economy and civic structure of the Native American Indians and that of the Colonists.

§         Compare and contrast the cultural groups of the Northeast and the Southeast colonies.

§         Discuss major events leading to the American Revolution.

§         Demonstrate an understanding of the geography and history of Pennsylvania and Bucks County.

§         Identify current events which impact upon Pennsylvania.

§         Discuss emotions and how to understand and control them.

§         Explain the influence of peer pressure and behavior.

§         Identify body systems and their functions.

§         Discuss foods and nutrition.

§         Discuss prevention of accidents.

§         Identify diseases and their spread including AIDS.

§         Discuss health effects of alcohol and tobacco.

§         Locate appropriate materials in all library collections.

§         Use appropriate reference sources, both print and electronic.

§         Collect, evaluate, and organize information.

§         Research and report on various topics. Write a full bibliography.

§         Use various non-print resources to retrieve and present information.

§         Demonstrate appropriate behavior with print and electronic resources.

§         Enjoy various forms of literature, including different genres of fiction.

§         Identify complex color systems (intermediate, analogous, complementary, and neutral).

§         Identify positive and negative shapes.

§         Alter size and positions to make objects look close up or far away in two-dimensional space (perspective).

§         Use various drawing/painting techniques and media to emphasize emotions.

§         Demonstrate various color systems through the use of a variety of pastel techniques.

§         Describe artworks or artifacts from the past.

§         Differentiate among the artworks created during Medieval, Renaissance, and Post-Renaissance eras.

§         Describe the elements of form and shape in a work of art.

§         Illustrate cinematic progressions through the creation of comic strips.

§         Learn about instruments of the orchestra.

§         Recognize and sing major scale.

§         Awareness of dotted quarter note.

§         Perform rhythms that include dotted rhythms and syncopated patterns.

§         Identify terms and symbols for dynamics and form.

§         Awareness of Time Signature.

§         Perform more advanced melodic ostinatos.