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 have opportunities to read, discuss texts, and build academic vocabulary at this grade level. Additionally, your child will read and write independently for an increasing amount of time.
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 explore Texas history from its early beginnings to modern-day.
Topics and concepts include:
- Regions of Texas and the United States, and how human activity and natural events shaped them
- Economic and social customs of American Indians in Texas and North America
- Motivations for European expansion including early settlement in Texas
- Texas Revolution, the establishment of the Republic of Texas and annexation by the United States
- Texas in the 21st century
Science
At least 50% of science instructional time is expected to be hands-on activities that include lab and/or field investigations during which your child will develop explanations from the data observed and collected. The differences between learned and inherited traits also will be discussed. Your child will also examine soils and observe weathering and erosion.
Topics and activities include:
- Comparing, contrasting and measuring physical properties of matter
- Investigating solutions and mixtures
- Exploring electrical currents
- Experimenting on the effect of forces on objects
- Discussing the flow of energy in ecosystems
- Investigating weathering and erosion
- Measuring and recording weather
- Describing the movement of water through the water cycle
- Identifying changes related to seasons, shadows, and the moon
Mathematics
Mathematical problem solving continues to be connected to real-world situations at this grade level. Your child will continue to work with basic concepts of mathematical expression, place value, data analysis, and geometry.
Concepts and activities also include:
- Solving multi-step whole number problems using expressions that include addition, subtraction, multiplication, and division
- Using place value to represent points on a number line that correspond to fractions and terminating decimals
- Generating and analyzing number patterns that follow a given rule
- Learning how to convert one unit of measure to another
- Classifying two-dimensional figures and measuring their angles
- Interpreting and representing data
- Calculating profits, determining allowances, savings plans, and understanding the differences between variable and fixed expenses