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Reading-

Each Six Weeks:

Multi-genre reading that incorporates a variety of texts (both print and non-print); student led discussions about reading material; keep a student reading log (RRJ - Reading Response Journal) with a variety of responses including self-reflection

Writing-

First Six Weeks: Write to express, discover, and develope a sense of self

Second Six Weeks: Write to entertain, and exhibit an identifiable voice. 

Third Six Weeks: Choose appropriate form of writing, use literary  devices (imagery, symbolism, simile, and metaphor) correctly, and write to influence.  

Fourth Six Weeks: Write to inform.

Fifth Six Weeks: Write to inform.

Sixth Six Weeks: Write to entertain.

Spelling-

Regular List 1st Six Weeks:   Week 9   

                                                Week 10 

 Pflex List 1st Six Weeks:    Unit 2 Pflex Lists

First Six Weeks:

Finding patterns of odd, even, factors, multiples, and prime numbers using concrete models; multiples of 10s, 100s, 1,000s, and 10,000s; read write, compare, and order whole numbers through billions; rounding; measuring time and temperature (covered in science)

Second Six Weeks:

Addition, subtraction, multiplication, and division of whole numbers; estimate using whole mumbers and fractions; place value.

Third Six Weeks:

Identify critical attributes of shapes and solids including parallel, perpendicular, and congruent parts; transformations; geometric patterns; coordinate grids.

Fifth Six Weeks:

Measurement - both customary and metric; convert between two units of measure.

Sixth Six Weeks:

Probability and statistics, data and graphing, order of operations, algebra.

First Six Weeks:

 Systems, space - Earth, moon, and sun

Second Six Weeks:

Earth's atmosphere; the Greenhouse Effect; water and carbon cycles; weather -clouds, air pressure, wind, forecasting  

Third Six Weeks:

Earth's atmosphere; the Greenhouse Effect; water and carbon cycles; weather -clouds, air pressure, wind, forecasting

Fourth Six Weeks:

Classify matter using volume, density; conductors and insulators; mixtures. Energy and motion.

Fifth Six Weeks:

Earth's processes; plants and their adaptations; animal growth and reproduction.

Sixth Six Weeks:

Plants and their adaptations: animal growth and reproduction.

First Six Weeks:

Landforms, map skills, regions; events shaping the world before colonization of the American continent; early settlements in the New World

Second Six Weeks:

Early settlements in the New World; settling the 13 original colonies; early government 

Third Six Weeks:

Colonization of 13 colonies; events leading to Revolutionary War; Articles of Confederation.

Fourth Six Weeks:

The Revolutionary War; writing the Constitution and the Bill of Rights; the three branches of our government.

Fifth Six Weeks:

Westward Expansion; Civil War.

Sixth Six Weeks:

Twentieth Century - World War I and  II; Civil Rights; Space Race; Cold War.