Curriculum:
- BIBLE
- Following God’s way
- Scripture reveals God as Creator, Sustainer, Friend
- Fruit of the Spirit: love, joy, etc.
- Living by His counsel: Proverbs
- Learning lessons through Parables: lost coin, talents
- The Golden Rule
- God’s words of wisdom: Ten Commandments, Beatitudes
- Choices we make
- Worshiping God: prayer, tithe, offerings, and Lord’s Supper
- Responding to and following God
- Reverence for God and His Word
ART
Realism and abstractions
Vocabulary
Interpreting feelings and ideas in art
Intermediate colors
Perspective
Positive and negative space
Create designs
Hues, textures, and shapes in creation
Acquaintance with artists’ lives and their works
Media experimentation
Fabric comparisons: color, texture, design
Collage, paper mache, block prints, enlargements
Proportions
Organic and inorganic
Elements and principles of design
COMPUTERS
Define and use data base
Print shop: create posters, banners
Newsletter
Community and home computer use
Set shapes, Positions, Headings
Ethics of copying
Computer courtesy
Load, Save, Menus
LANGUAGE ARTS
Reading and Literature
Read at instructional level
Read independently for information
Word analysis: context clues, root words, prefixes and suffixes, accent marks
Comprehension: author’s intent, skimming, scanning, inference, summarizing, paraphrasing, prediction
Variety of literature: classics, contemporary, multi-cultural
Compare literary forms and types
Analysis of media: point of view
Speaking
Vocabulary and usage
Discussion and conversation
Reports and messages
Christian drama: audience awareness, empathy
Presence and behavior
Spelling
Assigned words
Organized spelling plan
Spells correctly written work
Listening
Courtesy and appreciation
Information
Critical thinking: fact versus opinion, persuasive words, nonverbal cues
Writing
Legibility
Composition, reports, letters, poetry, journal
Parts of speech: nouns, verbs, pronouns, demonstrative and predicate adjectives, negative adverbs, objects, prepositional phrases
Sentence types
Essays, news articles, and editorials
Study Skills and Reference
Note-taking, outlining
Concordance and index
Library and media center: card catalog and computer access
MATHEMATICS
Reading and writing through millions place value
Roman numerals to ‘C’
Estimation
Multiples and factors
Averages
Multiplication and division facts to 144
Addition and subtraction of fractions
Fraction and decimal equivalency
Simple ratios
Geometric concepts
Standard and metric measurements
Problem solving
Collect, organize, and interpret data
Prime and composite numbers
Prime factoring
Meaning of mixed numbers
Multiplication: one digit multiplication
Division: digit divisor
MUSIC
Basic time signatures: 3/4, 4/4, 2/4
Simple conducting patterns
Syncopation, phrasing
Three-part round
Major and minor chord sounds
Harmony and dissonance
Rondo and variation forms
Composers and their compositions
Staff, treble clef, measure
Terms referring to tempo
Lines and space names of treble clef
Affect of legato and staccato
Nationalistic and patriotic music
20 Century music
Hymnal page parts identification
PHYSICAL EDUCATION
Motor skills
individual activities, group games, lead-up games for team sports
Concepts
safety, rules of health
Fitness
fitness testing, agility and coordination activities, heart rate monitoring
Positive attitudes
self-worth, self-control, responsibility
Interpersonal skills
cooperation, sportsmanship, leadership, respect
SCIENCE & HEALTH+
God’s unchangeable laws
Properties of matter
Molecules
Mixtures and solutions
Changes in matter
Transfer of heat
Choice and decision making
Substance abuse
Dinosaurs, fossils
Health habits