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Key Learnings

BIBLE

Following in His Way: God the Creator, Sustainer, Friend

• Understand that the Bible contains a message for humanity
• Know the structure and divisions of the Bible
• Understand that the "Fruit of the Spirit" are an expression of God's character
• Understand and accept the free gift of salvation
• Know importance of developing, exercising faith in Jesus
• Realize the importance of preparing for a mission and service for God
• Identify specific spiritual gifts given to N T characters
• Understand that God has a plan for everyone's life
• Understand that expressions of adoration are an important part of worship
• Understand the importance of examining and accepting God's unconditional love and forgiveness
• Know that worship and obedience are a natural response to God's gift of salvation

FINE ARTS

Art

• Use different media, techniques and processes to communicate ideas, experiences and stories
• Know the differences among visual characteristics and purposes of art in order to convey ideas
• Select and use subject matter, symbols and ideas to communicate meaning
• Know that the visual arts have both history and specific relationships to various cultures
• Identify specific works of art as belonging to particular cultures, times and places
• Describe how people's experiences influence the development of specific artworks
• Identify connections between the visual arts and other disciplines in the curriculum

Music

• Read meter signatures (2/4, 3/4, 4/4)
• Identify staff, treble clef and measure
• Know names of lines and spaces of treble clef
• Distinguish between secular and sacred music
• Recognize rondo form (ABACA pattern)
• Recognize terms: ritardando, accelerando, allegro, andante
• Recognize how legato/staccato affect music performance
• Experience nationalistic and patriotic music
• Recognize an overture
• Identify parts of the hymnal page

 

LANGUAGE ARTS

Viewing

• View visual media for a specific learning purpose
• Ask questions for clarification of visual media
• Recognize how impressions of visual media can influence understanding

Listening

• Listen to and show respect for ideas of others
• Identify false or misleading information
• Connect learning to all subjects from what is heard
• Identify persuasive messages

Reading

• Decode unfamiliar words
• Use punctuation clues to help read aloud
• Understand author's purpose
• Read aloud, adjust speed of reading
• Identify figurative language
• Use word origins, derivations to understand word meanings
• Use the thesaurus to learn word meanings

Speaking

• Use notes, memory aids to assist in speaking effectively
• Convey clearly focused main idea and details, making connection and transition among ideas and elements

Visually Representing

• Generate visual media to communicate topic, context, and purpose
• Construct visual media to demonstrate specific information

Writing

• Write legibly in cursive with proper size and form
• Practice the writing process
• Use characteristics of good writing
• Select an organizational structure to fit purpose
• Identify and use declarative, interrogative, imperative, and exclamatory sentences
• Write business letters, invitations, and thank-you notes

 

MATH

Numbers and Operations

• Understand place value through millions
• Understand concept and representation of numbers between zero - one, i.e. fractions - decimals
• Recognize representations for equivalent numbers
• Read, write and compare decimals to the hundredths
• Know equivalents in counting money
• Know how to count up to make change
• Understand how x and ÷ relate to solve problems
• Interpret the meaning of a remainder in a division problem
• Memorize multiplication and division facts through 12
• Multiply a 3- and 4-digit number by a 1-digit number
• Divide using 1-digit divisor and 1- 2- or 3-digit dividend
• Multiply two 2-digit numbers
• Understand simple equivalent fractions
• Convert improper fractions to mixed numbers
• + and - fractions and mixed numbers with CD
• Estimate solutions
• Understand basic concepts of LCM and GCF
• Reduce simple fractions to lowest terms
• Explore numbers less than zero by extending the number line and through familiar applications

Algebra

• Construct a table of values to solve problems in a mathematical relationship
• Understand how a change in one variable affects the value of another variable
• Use distributive properties
• Make and justify predictions

Geometry

• Describe points, lines and planes
• Use columns and rows to determine position on a grid
• Use coordinate systems to specify locations
• Identify line symmetry in 3-dimensional shapes
• Create models of 3-dimensional objects
• Multiply to find area of rectangles
• Make and test conjectures about geometric properties and relationships, develop arguments to justify conclusions
• Compare similarities and differences of quadrilaterals

Measurement

• Measure length to the nearest ¼ inch
• Use measures less than one unit
• Solve multi-step problems involving measurement
• Estimate and measure the perimeter of irregular shapes
• Compare the number of units to the size of units
• Draw a simple time line
• Determine elapsed time by the hour and half-hour
• Understand time zones and read timetables
• Read Celsius and Fahrenheit thermometers
• Know equivalent measures for simple metric and customary units of length, capacity, weight/mass and time
• Convert simple metric and customary units of length, capacity, weight/mass, and time 

Data Analysis/ Probability

• Collect, organize data to tables/graphs with different scales
• Read and interpret data presented in circle graphs
• Conduct simple probability experiments
• Interpret and construct Venn diagrams
• Evaluate the process of data collection

 

PHYSICAL EDUCATION

Spiritual Emphasis

• Recognize that God's ideal for quality living includes a healthy lifestyle
• Incorporate into one's lifestyle the principles that promote health: nutrition, exercise, water, sunlight, temperance, air, rest, trust in God
• Avoid at-risk behaviors
• Apply Christian principles in recreation and sports
• Achieve a balance in work and leisure; balancing physical, mental, social and spiritual activities
• Recognize the interaction of physical, mental and spiritual health with emotional and social well-being

Movement and Motor Skills

• Demonstrate mature form in all locomotor patterns and selected manipulative and non-locomotor skills
• Adapt a skill to the demands of a dynamic, environment
• Acquire beginning skills of specialized movement forms
• Combine movement skills in applied settings
• Apply critical elements to improve personal performance
• Use critical elements to provide feedback to others
• Recognize and apply concepts that impact the quality of increasingly complex movement performance

Lifestyle and Fitness

• Identify several activities related physical fitness
• Associate results of fitness testing to personal health status and ability to perform various activities
• Meet the health-related fitness standards as defined by a fitness testing program
• Experience enjoyment participating in physical activity
• Enjoy practicing activities to increase skill competence
• Interact with friends while participating in group activities
• Use physical activity as a means of self-expression

Sportsmanship and Appropriate Behaviors

• Follow activity-specific rules, procedures and etiquette
• Utilize safety principles in activity situations
• Work cooperatively/productively with a partner, small group
• Work independently/on-task for a specified period of time
• Explore cultural/ethnic self-awareness through participation
• Recognize the attributes that individuals with difference can bring to group activities
• Experience differences and similarities among people by participating in activities of national, cultural, ethnic origins

 

SCIENCE

Physical: Atomic Structure/Matter

• Explain the structure of atoms as building blocks
• Identify substances as they exist in different states of matter and how they may be changed
• Distinguish between chemical/physical changes in matter

Life: Plants: Classification, Growth, Photosynthesis, Reproduction, Structure/Function

• Group, classify plants based on a variety of characteristics
• Identify conditions necessary for plant survival and growth
• Describe the steps of photosynthesis and sequence them
• Describe life cycle of a plant including pollination process
• Describe basic plant structures, systems, identify functions
• Understand ecosystems and communities and how plants adapt to survive

Earth: Environmental Use: Conservation/Ecology, Pollution

• Identify properties, uses and misuses of Earth materials
• Identify renewable and nonrenewable resources
• Explain how human activity affects the balance of nature
• Recognize that Earth materials are limited and explore strategies for addressing this problem

Health: Disease Prevention, First Aid, Community Health

• Identify sources of diseases and prevention
• Identify appropriate emergency first aid procedures
• Identify important community health care resources 

Scientific Inquiry

• Make observations
• Ask questions, form hypotheses based on observations
• Plan a simple investigation
• Collect data from the investigation
• Use data collected to explain the results
• Safely use and store tools and equipment

Service/Career Options

• Explore ways to use Physical, Life, Health, and/or Earth Science to serve the community
• Identify careers in areas of Science

 

SOCIAL STUDIES

History: Earth's Regions and Its People (Time, Technology, Native People, Early Settlers, National Leaders,
Transportation, Holidays)

• Recognize the importance of God's global mission and the work of the Adventist church
• Understand time measurements
• Understand current events and the history, traditions and holidays of one's state, provinces and other world regions
• Know the influence of early settlers and native people in one's region and state
• Recognize cultural influences in different world regions

Civics: Ideas about Civic Life, Politics and Government

• Know the difference between power and authority
• Know the characteristics of an effective law, understand the consequences of the absence of government and laws
• Understand the role of diversity and the importance of shared values in the United States
• Understand components of state government, constitution
• Know the importance of Christian citizenship
• Develop responsibility through good decision making
• Understand the roles of volunteerism and organized groups in American social and political life

Geography: Geographic Features and Patterns of the Environment

• Know the basic elements of maps and globes
• Use a globe to clarify knowledge of the earth
• Use charts and maps to show the physical and human characteristics of one's state
• Know characteristics of other regions of the United States
• Know how the characteristics of places are shaped by physical and human processes
• Understand how climate, weather effects earth's surface

Economics:

• Understand responsibilities of Christian stewardship in a global economy
• Know which goods/services are produced, delivered and shared in various regions; know why people produce them
• Know how the production of goods and services affects the environment
• Understand that limited resources make economic choices necessary
• Learn how technology impacts the world through inventors/inventions

 

TECHNOLOGY

• Demonstrate proper use and care of computers and other audio-visual equipment
• Practice using the keyboard
• Become familiar with proper computer terms
• Use computers to express ideas with drawing, multi-media and word processing software
• Learn file management
• Learn about technology related occupations
• Use appropriate input/output devices
• Begin troubleshooting for basic malfunctions
• Become aware of copyright issues
• Practice courtesy and respecting of computer time

Our key learnings are aligned with the North American Division curriculum guides, national standards, McRel Database (Mid-Continental Regional Educational Laboratory) and Ten Sigma (a compilation of standards for 38 states).