NEISD provides each student with the 360° Education. Our 360° Education is a well-rounded curriculum that focuses on growing the entire student and fosters critical thinking, problem-solving, creativity, and social development.Language Arts
Your child will build skills acquired in the previous year by continuing to read and write independently for increasing amounts of time. Plus, your child will have opportunities to read, discuss texts, and build academic vocabulary.
Topics and activities include:
- Reading independently for increasing amounts of time in a variety of grade-level texts that are of interest to the student
- Summarizing information in a text while retaining logical order and meaning
- Writing for various audiences and purposes, such as informing, persuading, reflecting, and retelling
Social Studies
Your child will survey the history of the United States from 1565 to the present.
Topics and concepts include:
- The colonial period, American Revolution, the establishment of the U.S. Constitution
- Westward expansion, Civil War and Reconstruction
- Understanding the American economy and the free enterprise system
- Important American ideals, and the roots of representative government
Science
At least 50% of science instructional time is expected to be spent on hands-on activities that include lab and/or field investigations. Your child will use experimental and observational evidence, critical thinking and logic to make informed decisions as well as follow the flow of energy in food chains, structures, and functions that help living things survive. The exploration of electricity is also part of this year’s curriculum.
Topics and activities include:
- Exploring uses of energy
- Demonstrating properties of light
- Classifying matter based on physical properties
- Identifying alternative energy sources and fossil fuels
- Discussing the flow of energy from the sun through producers, consumers, and decomposers in the food chain
- Demonstrating how the rotation of the Earth causes day and night, and the movement of the sun across the sky
Mathematics
Your child will build on knowledge, skills, and practice to complete more complex equations and apply mathematical-problem solving skills.
Concepts and activities also include:
- Representing and solving problems with equations and expressions
- Applying place value to identify, estimate and solve problems involving addition, subtraction, multiplication, and division
- Connecting the geometric attributes with the measurement of three-dimensional figures
- Representing and interpreting data
- Building foundations of functions through patterning, ordering of operations, and identification of whole and composite numbers
- Representing location on a coordinate plane and describing attributes of a coordinate plane
- Understanding personal financial concepts including balancing a budget, income tax, gross net income and credit cards