• Make appropriate choices when faced with peer pressure
• Explain the difference between the proper uses of drugs and drug abuse
• Demonstrate conflict resolution, decision-making, communicating, and problem-solving skills
• Explain how HIV affects the immune system
• Explain blood and its function
• Explain the influences of drugs on the human body and society at large
• Demonstrate healthy and safe habits (poison, dangerous inhalants, bicycle, automobile, and electrical)

• Identify complementary pairs by mixing colors
• Use warm and cool colors appropriately
• Draw a portrait after observing the shapes and lines found in a face
• Demonstrate that textures in the foreground are more detailed than textures found in the background
• Vary size of objects to create distance
• Use art as self-expression
• Study other cultures and the art that has been inspired by that culture

• Sing alone &/or with other students
• Be exposed to a variety of music from different cultures, time periods, and styles
• Use age appropriate instruments to accompany music
• Learn, read, and demonstrate basic musical notation
• Listening to and describing a variety of musical styles
• Learn a variety of dances and musical games

• Demonstrates competency in motor skills and movement patterns needed to perform a variety of physical activities
• Participate regularly in physical activity
• Achieves and maintains a health-enhancing level of physical fitness
• Demonstrates understanding of movement concepts, principles, strategies and tactics as they apply to the learning and performance of physical activities
• Exhibits responsible personal social behavior that respects self and others in physical activity settings
• Values physical activity for health, enjoyment, challenge, self-expression and/or social interaction

Reading

• Employ multiple strategies to recognize words as they construct meaning including the use of phonics, syllabication, spelling patterns and context clues
• Identify the topic and main idea, either stated or inferred, of given narrative and expository selections
• Construct meaning from expository text by using a variety of study skills to identify text structure and author's purpose (cause and effect, descriptions, lists, compare and contrast, graphs, charts, etc.)
• Identify different genre (historical fiction, realistic fiction, fantasy and biography)

Speaking

• Organize, sequence, practice and deliver an oral presentation on a project incorporating the skills of voice projection, inflection, fluency and appropriate non-verbal language
• Use courtesy and consideration in communication situations

Writing

• Plan, process and write narrative and expository paragraphs by organizing and analyzing information focusing on drafting, revising and editing
• Write for multiple purposes across the curriculum
• Use letter writing techniques and legible handwriting to compose an invitation, a letter of request and thank-you note

Listening

• Actively listen to oral information and summarize that information
• Actively listen to a given set of multiple step directions in order to accomplish a specific task and self assess their completion of the task
  

Spelling

• Correctly spell a selected list of high frequency use and frequently misspelled words
• Correctly spell phonetic lists of words

Research

• Locate and organize in writing information on a selected topic using multiple resources that may include the dictionary, encyclopedia, trade books, and available technology
• Demonstrate the correct use of the table of contents, index, glossary and dictionary to locate and gain information

• Names, draws, and labels line segments, lines, rays, parallel lines, angles, triangles, and quadrangles
• Solves addition and subtraction facts
• Identifies and uses maximum and minimum
• Has a successful strategy for subtracting multi-digit numbers
• Has a successful strategy for adding multi-digit numbers
• Reads and writes numerals to hundred- millions: gives the value of the digits in numeral to hundred-millions
• Gives equivalent names for numbers
• Understands the relationship between multiplication and division
• Compares large numbers
• Estimates sums

• Identifies the whole for fractions
• Identifies fractional parts of a collection of objects and regions
• Gives equivalencies between hundredths-fraction, decimals and percents
• Uses a calculator to rename any fraction as a decimal or percent
• Uses a transparent mirror to draw the reflection of a figure and reflected figure in a pattern
• Identifies lines of symmetry, lines of reflection, reflected figures and figures with line symmetry
• Uses rate tables, if necessary, to solve a problem.

• Compare cultural similarities and diversities of Michigan tribes, the three fires, with other historical Native American regional groups and collaboratively present their findings orally, visually and in writing
• Determine and present the causes for French exploration, English occupation and American settlement of the Great Lakes regions and how this affected the lives of Native Americans
• Determine the cause and effect relationship among land forms, water forms, climate and vegetation of Michigan
• Utilize the five themes of geography to compare and contrast with the other regions of the United States
• Identify the steps in the process of becoming a state, compare and contrast the roles and responsibilities of the branches of state government, and collaboratively create a time line tracing the events that led to Michigan Statehood
• Address current events as they relate to the United States and the rest of the world

• Demonstrate knowledge of the individual's role as a consumer and producer with the economic system
• Investigate and respect the positive and negative effects of the economic development and/or ecological changes in Michigan influenced by farming, lumbering, mining and the automobile industry from the 1800's to the early 1900's
• Analyze the impact on Michigan's economy of manufactured resources and services exported to and imported from other United States regions
• Construct meaning by reading, gathering, interpreting, analyzing and summarizing information through a variety of resources
• Identify a public issue, use data and inquiry methods to take an informed stand (position) and then create a persuasive oral or written argument that related to at least one Core Democratic Value (CDV)
• Develop a respect for fair classroom, school and community rules as well as local, state and national law