Placentia-Yorba Linda Unified School District
Life Science
Students will:
Learn that plants and animals have structures that serve different functions in growth,
survival, and reproduction.
Learn that living things cause changes in the environment; some changes are good and
some are bad.
Learn that when the environment changes, some plants and animals survive, but others die.
Earth Science
Students will:
Learn that the patterns of stars stay the same, and different stars can be seen in
different seasons.
Learn that telescopes magnify the appearance of distant objects in the sky.
Learn that earth is one of several planets which orbit the sun; the moon orbits Earth.
History - Social Science
The student will learn more about connections to the past, including ways in which particular
local governments, as well as regional and national governments and traditions have
developed. Emphasis is on the physical and cultural landscape of California, including the
study of Native Americans, the subsequent arrival of immigrants, and the impact they
have had in forming the character of contemporary society.
Local Region’s Landscape
Students will:
Study the major natural features of Orange County and local communities.
Note changes that have taken place in Orange County.
Important People and Events in the Local Community
Students will:
Acquire knowledge of local Native Americans.
Discuss how the local region has been affected by various individuals and groups.
Become aware of local political government.
History, Geography, and Economics
Students will:
Understand a historical timeline.
Interpret maps, globes, models, surveys, polls, and diagrams.
Understand the importance of work skills, productivity and saving.
Family Activities
Language Arts
Word Analysis, Fluency, and Vocabulary Development
Practice using a simple dictionary to find correct spelling of a word, pronunciation, part of speech and
syllabication.
Listen to your child read, encouraging him/her to use context clues to find the meaning of unfamiliar
words.
Make simple prefix and suffix flashcards and try them with a variety of root words.
Reading Comprehension
Look at books in your home or library to find the table of contents, glossary and index.
Give your child simple written multiple step directions.
Ask your child to retell a story he/she has read. Listen for characters, setting, and plot.
Literary Response and Analysis
Attend a poetry reading or play and discuss their difference from reading a poem or play.
Talk to your child about the characters in a story and what they contribute to the plot.
Ask your child why he/she thinks the author wrote a particular story.
Written Applications (Writing)
Make a vacation journal, a special event journal, or a holiday journal.
Encourage your child to engage in writing letters to family and friends.
Written and Oral Communications
Assist your child in setting up an alphabetically ordered address book.
Listen to your child explaining a simple experiment or project done at school.
Listening and Speaking
Attend a presentation of any sort and ask your child to retell what the speaker said.
Distinguish between fact and fantasy while watching television.
Encourage your child to participate in age appropriate events or plays.
Mathematics
Number Sense
Play games that involve adding and subtracting number to 10,000.
Assist your child in memorizing his/her multiplication facts to 10.
Play “What If” (Example: If one eraser costs 10 cents how much would 100 erasers cost?)
Algebra and Functions
Practice making patterns with your child.
Make a picture graph in which each symbol represents more than one object.
Measurement and Geometry
Consider investing in tangrams and pentominos.
Invite your child to join family cooking, observing various types of measurements, both dry and wet,
while discussing volume.
Make a family graph of your family’s heights and weights.
Statistics, Data Analysis and Probability
When planning family outings discuss events that are likely, unlikely, or probable.
Consider the probability of occurrences when making lunches: If there are 5 apples and 2 oranges in
a bowl, am I more likely to take an apple or an orange just by reaching in?
Mathematical Reasoning
Consider gifts for your child that require following multiple directions for assembly.
Consider trying a craft such as sewing or needlepoint, which requires following a pattern.
Science
Physical Science
Observe sources of energy in daily life (Example: food, gasoline, batteries).
Show or assist your child in changing a battery.
Life Science
While taking short car trips point out and discuss the plants within given regions (Example: mountains,
ocean, desert).
Earth Science
Consider visiting an observatory.
Consider purchasing a telescope and books about the stars so learning about the constellations can
be a family event.
History - Social Science
Local Region’s Landscape
Consider a day trip to the ocean, mountains or desert to compare the landscape to your local one.
Consider visiting a mission to compare community life there to the one you live in.
Important People and Events in the Local Community
Watch for historical events in and around your community (Example: parades, historical reenactments,
or civic events).
Visit the police station or city hall in your community.
U.S. Ideas and Symbols
Investigate biographies for individuals who have shaped and/or influenced our country.
Look through the newspaper with your child to find articles about people who contribute to our
country.
Laws and Structures of the U.S. Government
Encourage personal responsibility at home.
Look through the newspaper with your child, pointing out ways in which our government is at work
locally, statewide, and nationally.
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Word Analysis, Fluency, and Vocabulary Development
Students will:
Understand the basic features of reading. They will select letter patterns and know how to
translate them into spoken language by using phonics, syllabication, and word parts. They
will apply this knowledge to achieve fluent oral and silent reading.
Know and use complex word families when reading to decode unfamiliar words (Example:
light, bright, sight)
Decode regular multisyllabic words (Example: sub/trac/tion)
Read aloud fluently and accurately and with appropriate intonation and expression. (Example:
stopping to pause at periods commas, using a raised voice when question marks and exclamation
marks are present)
Understand and explain common antonyms and synonyms. (Example: antonyms = opposites:
hot/cold; synonyms = same: small/tiny; homophones = here, hear; homographs = multiple
meaning words: right, as a direction; right, as in correct)
Demonstrate knowledge of levels of specificity among grade-appropriate words and explain
the importance of these relations (Example: dog/mammal/animal/living things).
Use sentence and word context to find the meaning of unknown words (Example: The drops of
rain sprinkled down on his head.)
Use a dictionary to learn the meaning and other features of unknown words.
Use knowledge of prefixes (Example: un-, re-, pre-, bi-, mis, dis-,) and suffixes (Example: er, -est, -ful) to determine the meaning of words.
Reading Comprehension
Students will:
Read and understand grade level appropriate material as identified by Recommended Readings
in Literature, Kindergarten through Grade Eight.
Uses titles, tables of contents, chapter headings, glossaries, and indexes to locate information
in text.
Use prior knowledge to ask questions and support answers found in text.
Demonstrate comprehension by identifying answers in text.
Recall major points and make predictions.
Know the main idea supporting details.
Extract appropriate and significant information from the text, including problems and solutions.
Follow simple multiple-step written instructions (Example: how to assemble a product or play
a board game).
Distinguish common forms of literature (Example: poetry, drama, fiction, nonfiction).
Comprehend basic plot of classic fairy tales, myths, folktales, legends, and fables from around
the world.
Determine what characters are like by what they say or do and by how the author or illustrator
portrays them.
Determine the underlying theme in fiction (Example: friendship) and nonfiction (Example:
protecting the environment).
Recognize the similarities of sounds in words and rhythmic patterns. (Example: Alliteration:
Big Bob bought bunches of bananas. Onomatopoeia: buzz, clank)
Identify the speaker or narrator in a selection.
Writing
Students will:
Write clear and coherent sentences and paragraphs that develop a central idea. Write to show
consideration of the audience and purpose. Students progress through the stages of the
writing process (Example: prewriting, drafting, revising, editing successive versions).
Create a simple paragraph with a topic sentence, simple supporting facts and details.
Write legibly in cursive or joined italic, allowing margins and correct spacing between letters
in a word and words in a sentence.
Understand the structure and organization of various reference materials (Example: dictionary,
thesaurus, atlas, and encyclopedia).
Revise drafts to improve the coherence and logical progression of idea by using an established
rubric (standardized scoring process).
Write narratives:
a. Provide a context within which an action takes place.
b. Include well-chosen details to develop the plot.
c. Provide insight into why the selected incident is memorable.
Write descriptions that use concrete sensory details to present and support unified impressions
of people, places, thins, or experiences.
Write personal and formal letters, thank-you notes, and invitations:
a. Show awareness of the knowledge and interests of the audience and establish a purpose
and context.
b. Include the date, proper salutation, body, closing, and signature.
Written and Oral English Language Conventions
Students will:
Understand and be able to use complete and correct declarative (Example: Jim is at home
today.), interrogative (Example: Is Valerie at home today?), imperative (Example: Sit down.),
exclamatory (Example: What a beautiful home!)
Identify subject/verb agreement (Example: The girl walked to school.), pronouns (Example:
She walked to school.), adjectives (The young girl walked to the schoolyard.), and articles
(Example: A girl walked to the school.)
Identify and use past, present, and future verb tenses (Example: He hit the ball. He hits the
ball. He will hit the ball.)
Identify and use subjects and verbs correctly in speaking and writing simple sentences.
Punctuate dates, city and state, and titles of books correctly.
Use comas in dates, locations, and addresses and for items in a series.
Capitalize geographical names, holidays, historical periods, and special events correctly.
Spell correctly one-syllable words that have blends (Example: blend), contractions (Example: don’t),
orthographic patterns (queen, happy, daisies), common homophones (Example: hair, hare).
Arrange words in alphabetical order.
Round off numbers to 10,000 to the nearest ten, hundred, and thousand.
(Example: 9, 563 Nearest ten = 9,560 Nearest hundred = 9,600 Nearest thousand =
10,000)
Use expanded notation to represent numbers
(Example: 3,206 = 3,000 + 200 + 6).
Find the sum or difference of two whole numbers between 0 and 10,000 Example:
297
5,298
+102
- 2,175
Memorize to automaticity the multiplication table for numbers between 1 and 10.
Use the inverse relationship of multiplication and division to compute and check results (Example:
3x4=12; 12 ¸ 3 = 4)
Solve simple problems involving multiplication of multi-digit numbers by one-digit numbers.
(Example: 3,671 x 3 = ___)
Solve division problems in which a multi-digit number is evenly divided by a one-digit number.
(Example: 135 ¸ by 5=___ )
Understand the special properties of 0 and 1 in multiplication and division.
Determine the unit cost when given the total cost and number of units. (Example: Valerie buys
5 mugs at the store. She spends $20.00. How much did each mug cost?)
Compare fractions represented by drawings or concrete materials to show equivalency and to
add and subtract simple fractions in context (Example: ½ of a pizza is the same amount as 2/
4 of another pizza that is the same size; using boxes show that 3/8 is larger than ¼.)
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Add and subtract simple fractions (Example: determine that 1/8 +3/8 is the same as 1/2)
Solve problems involving addition, subtraction, multiplication, and division of money amounts
in decimal notation by using whole-number multipliers and divisors.
Know and understand that fractions and decimals are two different representations of the same
concept (Example: 50 cents is 1/2 of a dollar, 75 cents is 3/4 of a dollar).
Algebra and Functions
Students will:
Represent relationships of quantities in the form of mathematical expressions, equations, or
inequalities (Example: 3+4=5+2)
Select appropriate operational and relational symbols to make an expression true (Example: if
4_3=12, what operational symbol goes in the blank?).
Express simple unit conversions in symbolic form (Example: ___ inches= ___ feet x 12).
Recognize and use the commutative and associative properties of multiplication (Example: if
5 x 7 =35, then what is 7 x 5? And if 5 x 7x 3 =105, then what is 7 x 3 x 5?).
Solve simple problems involving a functional relationship between two quantities (e.g., find the
total cost of multiple items given the cost per unit. If Valerie buys 5 mugs at $4.00 each, how
much will she spend in all? 5 mugs x $4.00 ea. = $20.00).
Extend and recognize a linear pattern by its rules (Example: the number of legs on a given
number of horses may be calculated by counting by 4’s or by multiplying the number of horses
by 4).
Measurement and Geometry
Students will:
Choose the appropriate tools and units (metric and U.S.) and estimate and measure the length,
liquid volume, and weight/mass of given objects.
Estimate or determine the area and volume of solid figures by covering them with squares or by
counting the number of cubes that would fill them.
Find the perimeter of a given shape.
E.g.,
3 in.
2 in.
3 + 2 + 3 + 2 = 10 inches
2 in.
3 in.
Carry out simple unit conversions within a system of measurement (Example: centimeters and
meters, 100 cm = 1 meter; hours and minutes 2 hours = 120 minutes).
Identify, describe, and classify polygons (including pentagons/5 sides, hexagons/6 sides, and
octagons/8 sides).
Identify attributes of triangles (Example: two equal sides for the isosceles triangle, three equal
sides for the equilateral triangle, right angle for the right triangle).
Identify attributes of quadrilaterals (Example: parallel sides for the parallelogram, right angles
for the rectangle, equal sides and right angles for the square).
Identify right angles in geometric figures or in appropriate objects and determine whether
other angles are greater or less than a right angle.
right angle = 90*
greater than 90*
less than 90*
Identify, describe, and classify common three-dimensional geometric objects (Example: pyramid,
cone, sphere, etc.).
cube
rectangular solid
cylinder
Identify common solid objects that are the components needed to make a more complex solid
object.
Listening and Speaking
Students will:
Retell, paraphrase, and explain what has been said by a speaker.
Connect and relate prior experiences, insights, and ideas to those of a speaker.
Respond to questions with appropriate elaboration.
Organize ideas chronologically or around major points of information.
Provide a beginning, middle, and an end, including concrete details that develop a central idea.
Use clear and specific vocabulary to communicate ideas and establish the tone.
Clarify and enhance oral presentations through the use of appropriate props (Example: objects,
pictures, charts).
Compare ideas and points of view expressed in broadcast and print media.
Distinguish between the speaker’s opinions and verifiable facts.
Make brief narrative presentations:
a. Provide a context for an incident that is the subject of the presentation
b. Provide insight into why the selected incident is memorable.
c. Include well-chosen details to develop character, setting, and plot.
Plan and present dramatic interpretations of experiences, stories, poems, or plays with clear
diction, pitch, tempo, and tone.
Make descriptive presentations that use concrete sensory details to set forth and support
unified impressions of people, places, things, or experiences.
Statistics, Data Analysis, and Probability
Students will:
Identify whether common events are certain, likely, unlikely, or improbable. (Example: Is it
likely, unlikely, or improbable that driving to New York from California will take 3 hours?)
Record the possible outcomes for a simple event (Example: tossing a coin) and systematically
keep track of the outcomes when the event is repeated many times. (Example: use a tally
system to record coin tosses)
Summarize and display the results of probability experiments in a clear and organized way
(Example: use a bar graph or a line plot).
Use the results of probability experiments to predict future events (Example: use a line plot to
predict the temperature forecast for the next day).
Mathematics
Apply strategies and results from simpler problems to more complex problems.
Determine when and how to break a problem into simpler parts.
Use a variety of methods to explain mathematical reasoning, such as words, numbers, symbols,
charts, and models.
The student will understand place value and will increase his or her skills in addition, subtraction,
multiplication, and division of whole numbers. The student will estimate and measure; will use
patterns to help solve problems; and will conduct simple probability experiments.
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Number Sense
Students will:
Count, read, and write whole numbers to 10,000.
Compare and order whole numbers to 10,000.
Identify the place value for each digit in numbers to 10,000
Example: 10,000
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Mathematical Reasoning
Students will:
Analyze problems by identifying relationships, distinguishing relevant from irrelevant
information, sequencing and prioritizing information, and observing patterns.
Determine when and how to break a problem into simpler parts.
Use estimation to verify the reasonableness of calculated results. Example:
Calculation:
26
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39
Estimate of calculation:
30
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40
Science
Physical Science
Students will:
Learn that energy comes from the sun to the Earth in the form of light.
Learn that energy can be carried by water and sound waves.
Learn that matter has three forms: solid, liquid, and gas.
Learn that all matter is made of small particles called atoms.
Objects are seen when light traveling from an object enters our eyes.
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