BIBLE
- encourage acceptance of Christ as personal Savior
- show concern for others
- demonstrate a forgiving spirit
- encourage an acceptance of those different than ourselves
- learn to be responsible for one’s own actions
- understand the development of the written Bible
- become aware that God works through his people to influence world powers
- recall the general content of the first eight books of the Bible
- discuss stories of Samuel
- understand why God rejected Saul as king and chose David instead
- discuss the stories of David and Solomon
- recall the stories of Daniel and Esther
- recall the stories of the rulers and prophets of Israel
- recall the story of the events leading up to Israel’s exile
- recall the stories of the rulers and prophets of Judah
- understand God’s great love in allowing Judah to return to Canaan
- overview the New Testament
MEMORY WORK
- I AM’s
- Psalm 27:1-5, 13-14
- Psalm 46
- I Samuel 16:7
- I Samuel 15:22
- Old and New Testament Books
- Psalm 24
- 2 Kings 17:13-22
- Psalm 51:10-12
- Proverbs 2:1-2, 5-8
- Isaiah 1:16-20
- Psalm 103
READING, LANGUAGE, SPELLING, PHONICS, HANDWRITING, WRITING PROCESS
- understand that language is a gift from God
- understand books from a Christian world view
- develop a love for reading
- use five steps of the writing process
- become familiar with application of eight great writing traits
- write complete sentences and organize writing in paragraphs
- apply rules of capitalization, punctuation, and verb tenses
- identify use of synonyms, antonyms, and homonyms
- learn the parts of speech and classify three standard English sentence patterns
- learn proper forms of friendly and business letters
- develop vocabulary through literature and dictionary skills
- write narratives, informative reports, and book reports
- understand similes and metaphors
- identify four parts of a story – characters, setting, plot, resolution
- understand the author’s style and point of view
- recognize feelings, actions, traits, and motives of characters
- recognize misspelled words
- spell words that do not fit predictable patterns
- learn to spell words according to phonetic rules
- form cursive letters properly
- learn prefixes and suffixes
- develop comprehension skills including inference, sequence, cause and effect, figurative language, predictions, and fact or opinion
- presentations of oral reports, book reports, and creative writing projects
- write research reports on various topics, which are integrated with other subject areas
READ-ALOUD BOOKS
A wide variety of books are read aloud to the class, some favorites are listed below:
- Chucaro: Wild Pony of the Pampa
- Legend of Sleepy Hollow
- A Christmas Carol
- The Door in the Wall
- Number the Stars
- Pilgrim’s Progress
MATH
- understand God’s world as a world of order and precision
- read, write, and compare numbers to 100,000
- solve story problems
- estimate and round to nearest 10, 100, 1000
- be introduced to fractions and decimals
- learn basic geometric terms
- review addition and subtraction facts
- compute addition and subtraction of two or more digits
- memorize multiplication and division facts through 10s
- multiply two- and three-digit factors
- divide by one- and two-digit divisors
- use monetary and time skills
- use manipulatives to learn math in many areas
- discover that patterns are an integral part of math
- collect, organize, and interpret data (tables, charts, graphs)
- measure using customary and metric units
SCIENCE
- recognize God as creator of the universe
- identify themselves as caretakers of God’s creation
- list and describe several types of plants
- label and explain the parts of a plant
- explain how living things can be classified
- specific units on a variety of subjects such as birds, energy, sound, packaging
- understand kinds of ocean movements
- describe the layers of the earth
- discover resources found in water
- explain the causes of weather and use of forecasting tools
- learn the human skeletal system and muscles
- discuss animal adaptations and God’s unique creation of different survival traits
SOCIAL STUDIES
- acquire the ability to utilize basic geographical skills
- examine the physical features and climate of the regions
- complete a research project on a state of choice
- identify the fifty states and capitals
- locate the oceans and the continents
- practice map skills by learning location of important cities/countries, landmarks, land forms, and bodies of water of the 7 continents