Upper Grades (Fourth Grade to Sixth Grade)
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Fourth Grade
By the end of fourth grade, students deepen their understanding of large numbers and addition, subtraction, multiplication, and whole numbers. They describe and compare simple fractions and decimals. They understand properties, and relationships between, plane geometric figures. They collect, represent, and analyze data to answer questions.
Listening, speaking, and writing are integrated through the fourth grade language arts program and are used in social studies, science, and math. By the end of fourth grade, students are able to communicate using developmentally appropriate reading, writing, and speaking skills.
Students in fourth grade learn the story of California, unique in American history in terms of its vast and varied geography, the many waves of immigration beginning with pre-Columbian societies, and its continued diversity. In addition to the specific treatment of milestones in California history, students examine the state in the context of the rest of the nation, with an emphasis on the US Constitution and the relationship between the state and federal government. |
Fifth Grade
By the end of the fifth grade, students increase their facility with the four basic arithmetic operations applied to fractions, decimals, and positive and negative numbers. They know and use common measuring units to determine perimeter and area and know and use formulas to determine the volume of simple geometric figures. Students know the concept of length and angle measurements and use a protractor and compass to solve problems. They use grids, tables, and charts to record and analyze data.
Listening, speaking, and writing are integrated through the fifth grade language arts program and are used in social studies, science, and math. By the end of fifth grade, students are able to communicate using developmentally appropriate reading, writing, and speaking skills.
Students in the fifth grade study the development of the nation up to 1850, with an emphasis on the people who were already here, when and from where others arrived, and why they came. Students learn about colonial government. They recognize that ours is a nation that has a constitution that derives its power from the people that has gone through a revolution that once sanctioned slavery that experiences conflict over land with the original inhabitants that experience a westward movement that took its people across the continent. Studying the cause, course, and consequences of the early explorations through the War of Independence and western expansion is central to the students’ fundamental understanding of how the principles of the American republic form the basic of a pluralistic society in which individual rights are secured
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Sixth Grade
By the end of sixth grade, students have mastered the four arithmetic operations with whole numbers, positive fractions, positive decimals, and positive and negative integers. They accurately compute and solve problems. They apply knowledge to statistics and probability. Students understand the concepts of mean, median, and mode of data and how to calculate the range. They analyze data and sampling processes for possible bias and misleading conclusions; they use addition and multiplication of fractions routinely to calculate probabilities for compound events. Students conceptually understand and work with ratios and proportions; they computer percentages (e.g. tax, tips, interest). Students know about p and the formulas for the circumference and area of a circle. They use letters for numbers in formulas involving geometric shapes and in ration to represent an unknown part of an expression. They solve one-step linear equations. Students compute with very large and very small numbers, positive integers, decimals, and fractions. They understand the relationship between decimals, fractions, and percents. They understand the relative magnitudes of numbers.
Listening, speaking, and writing are integrated through the sixth grade language arts program and are used in social studies, science, and math. By the end of sixth grade, students are able to communicate using developmentally appropriate reading, writing, and speaking skills.
Students in the sixth grade expand their understanding of history by studying the people and events that ushered in the dawn of the major Western and non-Western ancient civilizations. Geography is of special significance in the development of the human story. Continued emphasis is placed on the everyday lives, problems, and accomplishments of people and their role in developing social, economic, and political structures, as well as in establishing and spreading ideas that helped transform the world forever. Students develop higher levels of critical thinking by considering why civilizations developed where and when they did, why they became dominant, and why they declined. Students analyze the interactions among the various cultures, emphasizing their enduring contributions and the link, despite time between the contemporary and ancient worlds
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