Language Arts - A literature-based, integrated program published by Houghton Mifflin is utilized.

• Listening skills
• Comprehension skills
• Enrichment reading of novels
• Prefixes, suffixes, homographs
• WordMaster, Analogies
• Dictionary skills
• Curriculum challenged spelling words for vocabulary stimulation
• Letter writing for specific information
• Proofreading

Mathematics - The following concepts and skills are reinforced:

• Mastery of addition and subtraction algorithms and column addition
• Estimation of sums, differences, and products
• Mastery of regrouping in addition
• Mastery of subtraction with borrowing
• Introduction of multiplication facts through "9 X 9"
• Introduction of 2-digit multiplication
• Telling time to 5-minute intervals
• Standard and metric measurement
• Making change from $1.00
• Reciprocals (2x and 1/2x)
• Word problems and written explanations
• Introduction of fractions
• Explanation of division in various ways

Science

• Environmental Interactions (characteristics and needs of living things, physical/behavioral adaptations, food chain, interdependence; predator/prey, and changes in the environment: natural/man-made)
• Plants (basic survival needs, life cycle, growth and development, pollination, flower parts, physical structure, and adaption)
• Light (sources, prisms, shadows, travel, transmitted, reflection, refraction through transparent, translucent, and opaque objects)
• Sound (discrimination, sources/receivers, vibration, pitch/tone/volume, and travel through solids, liquids, and gases)
• Health and Human Body (nutrition, disease control, drug and substance abuse, personal health, family life education, and environmental force)

Social Studies

• Map and Globe Skills (identify and locate continents and oceans, intermediate directions - compass rose, recognize and label hemispheres, identify and locate thirteen colonies, become familiar with a variety of maps: political, landform, etc.)
• Economics (reasons for location of community - water, transportation, trade, etc., recognizing natural and human resources, division of labor/interdependence)
• Colonial America
• Early Settlers: Daniel Boone
• Martin Luther King / Civil Rights

FIELD TRIPS
~ St. Louis Art Museum
~ Powell Hall - Kinder Koncert
~ Daniel Boone Home
~ Zoo
~ Florissant Valley Theater