Fifth Grade Curriculum

Language Arts

Reading

• Use phonetic strategies, context clues and word reference materials to determine the meanings of unfamiliar and multiple meaning words as well as patterns of language.
• Read fictional and non-fictional text to construct meaning, identify, compare and analyze common elements of author’s purpose, conflict, resolution, cause and effect, and rising/falling action and climax.
• Experience a variety of genre and explore cultural diversities/similarities in those tests.
• Read for a sustained silent period of 75 to 100 minutes per week.

• Implement the writing process to include: prewriting, drafting, conferencing, revising, editing, and publishing.
• Employ multiple strategies when composing text to persuade, inform, entertain, and describe.
• Write a variety of poetry.
• Correctly spell a selected list of high frequency use and misspelled words appropriate to fifth grade.
• Demonstrate grammar usage appropriate to fifth grade.
• Demonstrate the mechanics of writing appropriate to fifth grade.

Listening

• Listen and respond appropriately as soon as the speaker is finished.

Speaking

• Design and deliver an oral presentation that persuades, informs, entertains or inspires after analysis of a prompt which includes purpose and audience.
• Identify and practice elements of effective communication to enhance relationships. Elements include: confidence, volume, pace, poise.

Research/Study Skills

• Identify and use necessary resources.
• Take notes.
• Outline information.
• Be responsible for own learning.
• Demonstrate the ability to perform various test-taking strategies.

Science

Ecosystems

• Analyze and conduct experiments to assess the positive and negative effect of humans on the environment.
• Describe the basic requirements of all living things to maintain their existence.
• Explain common patterns of interdependence of living things.

Mass & Density

• Design and conduct experiments to determine displacement.
• Develop an awareness of the need for evidence in making claims.
• Measure weight and dimension in standard units.

Light & Sound

• Experiment with light waves to measure its properties.
• Explain how sound and light travel.
• Measure experimental results of sound waves.

Weather Forecasting

• Describe patterns of changing weather and how matter creates weather events.
• Measure and record weather events and make predictions based on data.

Health

The fifth grade health education curriculum focuses on:

• Positive relationships.
• Solving problems and resolving conflicts.
• Health habits to grow by.
• Human body systems.
• Resisting pressure to use drugs.
• The respiratory system, the environment and disease.
• Staying safe, avoiding danger and violence.
• HIV Infection & AIDS.

Social Studies

Social Studies is defined as the integrated study of the social sciences to prepare young people to become responsible citizens. The social studies curriculum builds four capacities in students: disciplinary knowledge, thinking skills, commitment to democratic values, and civic participation. Each capacity contributes uniquely to the development of responsible citizenship.

At the fifth grade level, the social studies curriculum focuses primarily upon the disciplines of history, geography, civics and economics of the United States.

The primary text in A Young Nation by McGraw-Hill. In addition, we use the Atlas of our Country by Nystrom, and We The People written by the Center for Civic Education.

THE UNITS OF STUDY ARE:

• Discovery and Exploration (1000-1607)
• Settlement and Colonial Period (1607-1760)
• The American Revolution (1760-1783)
• The United States Establishes a

New Government (1783-1800)

Mathematics

Mathematical Thinking at Grade 5

• Develop and understanding about properties of numbers, recognize similarities and generalized patterns, and use patterns to make models and predictions. Build computation strategies using number composition in all four operations.

Measurement Benchmarks

• Students develop a strong understanding of the metric and U.S. Standard measurement systems by comparing attributes of two objects and analyzing situations to determine what measurements should be made and to what level of precision.

Building on Numbers you know

• Experience counting, and build an intuitive sense about number quantity. Develop understanding about multiplication and division properties. Recognize number patterns involving multiples. Learn to estimate mathematical quantities and to represent and communicate mathematical ideas.

Bits and Pieces 1

• Develop a conceptual understanding of rational numbers in multiple representations in order to measure, order, compare, estimate and solve problems. Translate amount equivalent representations.

Between never and always

• Develop the ability to interpret data and to make predictions and decisions based on data gathered by experimentation. Develop an understanding of the notion of certainty and of probability as a measure of the degree of likelihood that can be assigned to a given event.

Data: Kids, Cats, and Ads

• Develop the ability to interpret data and to make predictions and decisions based on data gathered by experimentation. Develop an understanding of the notion of certainty and of probability as a measure of the degree of likelihood that can be assigned to a given event.

Picturing Polygons

• Create polygons with shape pieces. Find patterns and relationships between sides lengths and areas. Analyze various properties of polygons.

Physical Education

Art

Music

Library