Language study includes vocabulary building and learning about grammar and spelling. Through varied and frequent writing assignments, students build on their understanding of writing as a process that includes drafting, revising, editing, proofreading, and publishing. All students learn to adapt speaking and writing skills to the audience, topic, purpose, and situation. Reading and writing competencies addressed in the Virginia Standards of Learning are incorporated into the course objectives. Content areas include tumbling, rhythmic activities and dance, and application of skills in selected games and sports.
Students begin to review lifetime sports and activities for lifetime wellness planning.
Students study health units on alcohol, tobacco, and other drug use prevention, safety and first aid, lifetime health habits, mental health, and human growth and development. Parents may opt-out their children from any topic included in the Family Life Education program. Problem solving, communication, and making connections among mathematical ideas are emphasized in a hands-on learning environment. The use of calculators and computers is integrated with instruction. I extends students' knowledge and understanding of the real number system and its properties through the study of variables, equations, inequalities, and analysis of data derived from real world phenomena.