By the end of the year, the students will...

• Understand that in a multi-digit number, a digit represents 10 times what it would represent in the place to its right.
• Multiply a whole number of up to four digits by a one-digit whole number and multiply two two-digit numbers, and justify the solution.
• Solve multi-step whole number problems involving the four operations and variables and using estimation to interpret the reasonableness of the answer.
• Find whole-number quotients and remainders with up to four-digit dividends and one-digit divisors, and justify the solution.
• Solve problems involving adding and subtracting fractions and mixed numbers with like denominators.
• Solve problems involving multiplication of a fraction by a whole number
• Compare two decimals to the hundredths place using the symbols >, = or <, and justify the solution.
• Analyze data in frequency tables, line plots, bar graphs or picture graphs (fractions with line plots).
• Draw and identify points, lines, line segments, rays, angles, perpendicular lines and parallel lines.

By the end of the year, the students will...

• Summarize and sequence the events/plot, explain how past events impact future events, and identify the theme.
• Develop an understanding of vocabulary by determining the meaning of academic English words derived from Latin, Greek, or other linguistic root words and their prefixes and suffixes.
• Explain relevant connections between text-to-text (ideas and information in various fiction and nonfiction works, using compare and contrast.

By the end of the year, students will...

• Plan and carry out fair tests in which variables are controlled and failure points are considered to identify aspects of a model or prototype that can be improved.
• Predict how changes in either the amount of force applied to an object or the mass of the object affects the motion (speed and direction) of the object.
• Generate and compare multiple possible solutions to a problem based on how well each is likely to meet the criteria and constraints of the problem.
• Apply scientific ideas to design, test, and refine a device that converts energy from one form to another (clarification: examples of devices could include electric circuits that convert electrical energy into motion energy of a vehicle, light or sound, and a passive solar heater that converts light into heat; examples of constraints could include the materials, cost, or time to design the device).
• Plan and conduct scientific investigations or simulations to provide evidence how natural processes (e.g., weathering and erosion) shape Earth’s surfaces.
• Construct an argument that plants and animals have internal and external structures that function to support survival, growth, behavior, and plant reproduction (clarification: examples of structures could include thorns, stems, roots, colored petals, heart, stomach, lung, brain, and skin).

By the end of the year, the students will...

• Analyze how people are affected by, depend on, adapt to, and change their physical environments in the past and in the present
• Describe the character traits and civic attitudes of historically significant individuals in American history prior to c. 1800
• Analyze the preservation of cultural life, celebrations, traditions, and commemorations over time
• Explain how the purpose and roles of government were debated from early settlements to c. 1800
• Describe the character traits and civic attitudes of historically significant individuals in American history prior to c. 1800

By the end of the year, students will...

• Develop a draft from prewriting by categorizing, organizing, and sequencing facts, details, and/or events into a text (from sources when appropriate) into clear introductory, supporting, and concluding paragraphs.
• Write opinion texts that state an opinion or establish a position and provide reasons for the opinion/position supported by facts and details.
• Write fiction or non-fiction narratives and poems that use narrative techniques, such as dialogue, motivation, and descriptions.
• Apply research process to present and evaluate how completely, accurately, and efficiently the research question was explored or answered using previously established teacher/student criteria.
• Write informative/explanatory texts that develop the topic into supporting paragraphs from sources, using topic sentences with facts, details, examples, and quotations.

By the end of the year, students will...

• Compare and order fractions (and/or decimals to the thousandths place) using the symbols >,=,<, and justify the solution.
• Solve problems involving addition and subtraction of fractions and mixed numbers with unlike denominators, and justify the solution.
• Solve and justify multi-step problems involving variables, whole numbers, fractions, and decimals.
• Extend the concept of multiplication to multiply a fraction or whole number by a fraction. 
• Extend the concept of division to divide unit fractions and whole numbers by using visual fraction models and equations. 
• Add and subtract multi-digit whole numbers and decimals to the thousandths place, and justify the solution
• Multiply multi-digit whole numbers and decimals to the hundredths place, and justify the solution.
• Divide multi-digit whole numbers and decimals to the hundredths place using up to two-digit divisors and four-digit dividends, and justify the solution.
• Investigate the relationship between two numeric patterns
• Create a line graph to represent a data set, and analyze the data to answer questions and solve problems
• Create a line plot to represent a given or generated data set, and analyze the data to answer questions and solve problems, recognizing the outliers and generating the median

By the end of the year, students will...

• Draw conclusions, infer by referencing textual evidence to support analysis of what the text says explicitly as well as inferences drawn from the text.
• Develop an understanding of vocabulary by using context to determine the meaning of unfamiliar words or multiple-meaning words.
• Read independently for multiple purposes over sustained periods of time by producing evidence of reading.
• Explain and use the 8 parts of speech: noun, pronoun, verb, adjective, adverb, preposition, conjunction, interjection.
• Develop an understanding of vocabulary by determining the meaning of academic English words derived from Latin, Greek, or other linguistic root words and their prefixes and suffixes through context.
• Develop and apply effective listening skills and strategies in informal settings by listening for a speaker’s message and summarizing main points based on evidence.
• Explain the theme or moral lesson, conflict and resolution in a story or novel.
• In speech and written form, apply standard English grammar to produce a variety of complex sentences in writing.
• Integrate information from several texts on the same topic in order to write or speak about the subject knowledgeably.

By the end of the year, students will...

• Measure and graph quantities to provide evidence that regardless of the type of change that occurs when heating, cooling, or mixing substances, the total weight of matter is conserved 
• Plan and conduct investigations to separate the components of a mixture/solution by their physical properties
• Conduct an investigation to determine whether the combining of two or more substances results in new substances. 
• Plan and carry out fair tests in which variables are controlled and failure points are considered to identify aspects of a model or prototype that can be improved.
• Develop a model using an example to describe ways the geosphere, biosphere, hydrosphere, and/or atmosphere interact
• Use models to describe that energy stored in food
• Develop a model to describe the movement of matter among plants, animals, decomposers, and the environment
• Compare and contrast the major organs/organ systems
• Develop a model to describe that objects can be seen only when light is reflected off them or when they produce their own light.
• Support an argument that relative distances from Earth affect the apparent brightness of the sun compared to other stars.

By the end of the year, students will...

• Use geography to interpret the past, explain the present, and plan for the future as appropriate to topics or eras discussed.
• Explain factors, past and present, that influence changes in our nation’s economy.
• Explain how the purpose and roles of government have been debated across historical time periods to current times.
• Analyze ways by which citizens have effectively voiced opinions, monitored government, and brought about change both past and present
• Explain the causes and consequences of major political developments and reform in U.S. history from c.1800-2000.
• Compare cultural characteristics across historical time periods in the U.S. post c. 1800

By the end of the year, students will...

• Write informative/explanatory paragraphs.
• Write fiction or non-fiction narratives and poems that organize an event sequence that unfolds naturally to establish a beginning/middle/end.
• Write opinion texts that organize the supporting details/reasons into introductory, supporting, and concluding paragraphs.