Conceptual Skills

• Reading comprehension
• Listening comprehension
• Analytic reading strategies
• Identifying main ideas and supporting details
• Using texts to explain connections between individuals, events, and ideas
• Analyzing text
• Writing: creative, research, descriptive, narrative, expository, persuasive
• Responding to literature

Mechanical Skills

• Reading with fluency, accuracy, and expression to support comprehension
• Grammar
• Using context to confirm or self-correct
• Using the writing process

Tefilah (Prayer)

• Extended morning prayers, students read the Torah and engage in Tefilah conversations

Chumash (Bible)

• Review chumash structure and language. Shemot stories

Jewish Holidays

• Laws, customs, and traditions using Hebrew vocabulary, stories, and songs

Resources

• Shemot (Exodus)
• Chaverim B’Ivrit

Skills

• Understand place value to one billion
• Introduce exponents
• Estimation through 10,000
• Add, subtract, multiply, and divide whole numbers, fractions and decimals
• Round decimals
• Calculate greatest common factor and least common multiple
• Introduce percentage
• Multiply mixed numbers
• Understand division with decimals indivisor and remainders
• Understand prime and composite numbers
• Organize data through coordinate graphs

 

Reading

• Reading with expression and for greater understanding of the meaning of texts in a wider range of genres including non-fiction and poetry

Writing

• Write about a broader range of topics

Speaking

• Utilize conversational Hebrew in group projects with multiple topics. Present group an individual
• projects in Hebrew.

Listening

• Develop listening comprehension skills on a broader range of topics with expanded vocabulary

Resources

• Haverim B’Ivrit
• Tal Am Library

 Content

• Introduction to biology (living/ non-living, cell study, classification, genetics, adaptations, body systems)

Skills

• Observing
• Predicting
• Concluding
• Record keeping
• Labeling
• Investigating
• Measuring
• Hypothesizing
• Recording data
• Interpreting data
• Creating and reading detailed diagrams
• Using models

Content

• Western Hemisphere (history, economics, geography, civics and government)

Skills

• Non-fiction listening comprehension
• Non-fiction reading comprehension
• Research using multiple sources
• Recognize, identify, and compare landforms
• Compare, contrast physical and cultural regions
• Identify the five themes of geography (location, place, movement, human environment interaction, and region) and use them as a lens to understand the history of the Western hemisphere
• Examine the impact of human activity on cultures and resources of the western hemisphere.
• Apply map skills to explain how people navigate the earth