Conceptual Skills

• Reading comprehension
• Listening comprehension
• Inferential thinking
• Supporting opinions with evidence from texts
• Summarizing texts and expanding on ideas
• Explaining structural elements of various genres
• Vocabulary study
• Analyzing authors' purposes
• Applying strategies to understand unfamiliar words
• Analyzing text
• Writing: creative, research, descriptive, narrative, expository, persuasive
• Responding to literature

Mechanical Skills

• Reading with fluency, accuracy, and expression
• Grammar
• Using the writing process

Tefilah (Prayer)

• Morning prayers, including Torah reading

Chumash (Bible)

• The book of Beresheet (Genesis), beginning with Parashat Toldot

Jewish Holidays

• Laws, customs, and traditions using the Biblical text to learn about the holidays.
  

Resources

• Beresheet (Genesis)
• Tal Am Library

Skills

• Understand place value to 1,000,000s
• Estimation and rounding through millions
• Long division
• Understand multiplication of 2-digit by 2-digit numbers
• Simplify fractions, mixed numbers, improper fractions
• Learn to add and subtract fractions with like/unlike denominators
• Introduce decimals - 0.10, 0.01, 0.001
• Convert fractions into decimals
• Add and subtract decimals
• Identify missing factors
• Introduce order of operations
• Inverse operations
• Gather and tabulate data
• Probability
• Measurement
• Circumference

 

  Reading

• Read with expression and for greater understanding of the meaning of texts

Writing

• Write short essays

Speaking

• Deepen Hebrew conversations on substantive topics such as things that make each person unique
• within a community
• Give short presentations in Hebrew

Listening

• Extend listening comprehension skills to include more sophisticated language connected to texts and lessons

Resources

• Haverim B’Ivrit
• Tal Am Library

 

Content

• Introduction to earth science (water and weather)

Skills

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

Content

• New York State geography, New York State history, civics, and government (state and federal)

Skills

• Non-fiction listening comprehension
• Non-fiction reading comprehension
• Research (collecting, analyzing, and presenting information)
• Locate places in New York State
• Find specific locations on a map using coordinates (latitude and longitude)
• Read and interpret different types of maps including (physical, political, product, climate, topographic)
• Use latitude and longitude to indentify the three basic climate regions
• Identify natural resources relating to the NYS region geology and geography