• Use effective communication skills
• Listen attentively, ask and respond to questions
• Present short oral reports
• Apply word-analysis skills when reading
• Read and comprehend fiction and nonfiction stories
• Compare and contrast characters
• Demonstrate use and comprehension of information from a dictionary, encyclopedia, thesaurus, glossary and other reference materials
• Write legibly in cursive
• Write descriptive paragraphs
• Write stories, letters, simple explanations, and short reports
• Edit writing for correct grammar, capitalization, punctuation, and spelling

• Plan and conduct investigations
• Investigate simple machines and their uses
• Investigate the water cycle
• Investigate basic cycles occurring in nature
• Investigate animal needs and characteristics
• Investigate different sources of energy
• Investigate the major components of soil
• Investigate the limit of natural resources and the need to conserve them
•Investigate the three states of matter

• Read and write six-digit numbers
• Round whole numbers to the nearest ten, hundred, and thousand
• Compare whole numbers
• Name, write, and compare proper fractions with like and unlike denominators
• Add and subtract whole numbers with and without regrouping
• Recall multiplication and division facts through the twelves
• Count the value of money to $5.00, and make change
• Use measurement: length, weight, and liquid capacity
• Find the area and perimeter of closed figures
• Tell time to the nearest minute
• Determine elapsed time to the nearest hour
• Read temperature to the nearest degree
• Identify the characteristics of geometric figures
• Construct and interpret bar graphs, picture graphs, and line plots
• Recognize and describe patterns

• Explain contributions of ancient Greece and Rome and their influences
• Study the early West African empire of Mali
• Describe the accomplishments of Christopher Columbus, Ponce de Leon, Jacques Cartier, and Christopher Newport
• Develop map skills
• Interpret information from maps, tables, graphs, and charts
• Economics
• Learn about government, justice, equality, rights and responsibilities
• Identify contributions of George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, Abraham Lincoln, Rosa Parks, Thurgood Marshall, and Martin Luther King, Jr.

• Use technology for writing, communication, and publishing activities
• Develop basic technology vocabulary
• Enter data into databases and spreadsheets
• Follow rules for personal safety when using the internet
• Identify basic software applications