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 read and write independently for increasing amounts of time. Additionally, 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 explore how individuals in history changed their communities and the world, as well as learn how they can make their own world better.
Topics and concepts include:
- Citizen heroes from the past and present who influenced and inspired society
- Impact of new ideas, inventions, technologies, and communities
- Individuals who changed public policy and helped resolve common issues
Science
At least 60% of science instructional time is expected to be hands-on activities that include lab and/ or field investigations. Your child will learn how to organize data by constructing graphic organizers, tables, charts, and maps. Exploring models of the earth, moon, and sun is also part of the science in this grade level. Your child will investigate landforms, soil, natural resources, and environmental changes.
Topics and activities include:
- Demonstrating how forces work
- Testing and measuring physical properties of matter
- Classifying solids, liquids, and gases
- Looking at landforms, natural resources and changes in the earth’s surface
- Identifying patterns in the earth, moon, sun, and planets
- Investigating functions, structures, inherited characteristics, learned behaviors and life cycles of living things
Mathematics
Your child will focus on applying place value, ordering and comparing whole numbers, understanding how multiplication and division are connected, and fractions.
Concepts and activities also include:
- Understanding how data can be used to represent objects and events by analyzing bar graphs, pictographs, and dot plots
- Determining missing values in number sentences involving various operations
- Representing problem situations in numerous ways
- Classifying and identifying two-dimensional shapes and three-dimensional solids by similar attributes
- Measuring liquid volume and weight
- Solving problems with time intervals
- Identifying how money is earned, and costs and benefits of spending and saving money