Yearly Goals and Projects

Reading	Writing	Humanities	Science
1-2 Read Alouds	Writing poetry	Maps	Problem solving
1 personal reading with journal or report	Writing a lot of short fiction with different writing prompts and creative strategies	Teamwork	Scientific Method
1 Small group reading	1 extended piece of long fiction derived from a shorter piece of fiction	Global awareness and international cultures	Plant and Animal senses
Summarizing fiction	Using Parts of a Story to write a story	Helping others on a large scale and small	History of Technology
Summarizing non-fiction	Using a Story Arch in a piece of fiction	History of oppression and otherness	New and innovative technology
Reading and understanding poetry and figurative language	Persuasive writing	Making changes in society	Science Exposition
Parts of a story	Letter writing and format	US Geography	Student centered scientific creation piece.
Story Arch	Descriptive writing	Human difference
	Basic punctuation (,.?!:’”)
	Using figurative language
	Capitals, indenting and page layout
	Handwriting/typing