In Religion, students will:

1. Express an understanding of the liturgical year and recognize its impact on liturgical celebrations
2. Recognize the role of the Trinity in Church History and personal faith
3. Relate the feast of Pentecost and the coming of the Holy Spirit to the early Christians
4. Understand and pray belief statements
5. Relate 10 Commandments to life events
6. Demonstrate Christian virtues
7. Relate Saints’ lives to concepts and own life
8. Recite the Apostles Creed, Memorare, Spiritual Works of Mercy, and Ten Commandments
9. Discuss and define the sacraments of service, holy orders, and matrimony
10. Identify Mary’s faith and trust in God as a model of perfect Christianity.
11. Express understanding that the Mass is the great celebration of the Church

In Reading, students will:

1. Use comprehension strategies such as previewing, predicting, questioning and visualizing
2. Make inferences, draw conclusions and summarize chapters
3. Read appropriate grade level texts with fluency and accuracy
4. Retell stories including fables, folktales and myths from a variety of diverse cultures
5. Distinguish between first, second and third person point of view
6. Use text features to demonstrate understanding of text and domain specific words

In Writing, students will:

1. Write about a variety of topics incorporating expository and narrative styles
2. Understand and utilize the steps of the writing process including brainstorming, drafting, revising, editing and publishing
3. Research information and organize notes into cohesive sentences and paragraphs
4. Use linking words and transition words appropriately
5. Provide well developed introductions and conclusions when producing narrative and informational writing pieces
6. Utilize technology to produce and publish writing pieces

In English, students will:

1. Explain the function of nouns, pronouns, verbs, adjectives, and adverbs in general and their functions in particular sentences. 
2. Form and use regular and irregular plural nouns. 
3. Use abstract nouns 
4. Form and use regular and irregular verbs. 
5. Form and use the simple verb tenses. 
6. Ensure subject-verb and pronoun-antecedent agreement. 
7. Form and use comparative and superlative adjectives and adverbs and choose between them depending on what is to be modified. 
8. Use coordinating and subordinating conjunctions.
9. Produce simple, compound, and complex sentences 
10. Demonstrate capitalization with appropriate words in titles.
11. Use commas in addresses. 
12. Use commas and quotation marks in dialogue. 
13. Form and use possessives. 

In Math, students will focus on the following in themes:

1. Operations and Algebraic Thinking 
   1. Represent and solve problems involving multiplication and division
   2. Understand properties of multiplication and the relationship between multiplication and division
   3. Multiply and divide within 1000
   4. Solve problems involving four operations
2. Numbers and Operations
   1. Use place value understanding and properties of operations to perform multi-digit arithmetic
3. Number and Operations- Fractions
   1. Develop an understanding of fractions as numbers
   2. Understand the concepts of representing, reducing and comparing fractions
4. Measurement and Data
   1. Solve problems involving measurement and estimation of intervals of time, liquid volume and masses of objects
   2. Represent and interprets data using a variety of types of graphs
   3. Understand concepts of area and relates to multiplication and addition
   4. Understand perimeter and distinguishes between linear and area measures
5. Geometry
   1. Reason with shapes and their attributes

In Social Studies, students will focus on the following in themes:

1. Civics
   1. Identify and explain why cities make laws and ordinances
   2. Discuss and apply responsibilities of citizens
   3. Identify the purposes of the Declaration of Independence and Constitution
   4. Analyze peaceful resolutions of disputes
   5. Identify and explain the three branches of the government at the federal level
   6. Define economy  and explain concepts of supply and demand
2. History
   1. Identify the contributions of Martin Luther King Jr.
   2. Understanding Missouri’s role in Civil War 
   3. Explore Native Americans' role in St. Louis History
   4. Summarize the events in westward expansion and evaluate its impact
   5. Sequence and Describe the importance of the Louisiana Purchase and the Lewis and Clark Expedition
   6. Discuss issues of Missouri statehood
3. Economics
   1. Identify and explain public goods and services
   2. Conduct a cost benefit analysis
   3. Identify taxes and how they are used
4. Geography
   1. Read and construct maps
   2. Locate and label the states bordering Missouri along with major cities, rivers, and regions
   3. Describe various ecosystems in Missouri
   4. Identify examples of different regions

In Science, students will focus on the following in themes:

1. Adapting to Change
   1. Construct an argument that some animals form groups that help members survive.
   2. Analyze and interpret data from fossils to provide evidence of the organisms and the environments in which they lived long ago.
   3. Construct an argument with evidence that in a particular habitat some organisms can survive well, some survive less well, and some cannot survive at all.
   4. Construct an argument with evidence that in a particular habitat some organisms can survive well, some survive less well, and some cannot survive at all.
   5. Make a claim about the merit of a solution to a problem caused when the environment changes and the types of plants and animals that live there may change.
2. Observing Weather Patterns
   1. Represent data in tables and graphical displays to describe typical weather conditions expected during a particular season.
   2. Obtain and combine information to describe climates in different regions of the world.
   3. Make a claim about the merit of a design solution that reduces the impacts of a weather-related hazard.
   4. Define a simple design problem reflecting a need or a want that includes specified criteria for success and constraints on materials, time, or cost.
   5. 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.
3. How Things Move
   1. Plan and conduct an investigation to provide evidence of the effects of balanced and unbalanced forces on the motion of an object.
   2. Make observations and/or measurements of an object’s motion to provide evidence that a pattern can be used to predict future motion.
   3. Ask questions to determine cause and effect relationships of electric or magnetic interactions between two objects not in contact with each other.
   4. Define a simple design problem that can be solved by applying scientific ideas about magnets.
   5. Plan and conduct a fair test to compare and contrast the forces (measured by a spring scale in Newtons) required to overcome friction when an object moves over different surfaces (i.e., rough/smooth)
   6. Define a simple design problem reflecting a need or want that includes specified criteria for success and constraints on materials, time or cost.
   7. Define a simple design problem reflecting a need or want that includes specified criteria for success and constraints on materials, time or cost.
   8. Define a simple design problem reflecting a need or want that includes specified criteria for success and constraints on materials, time or cost.
   9. 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.
   10. 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.