Curriculum Synopsis
Grade 5
Curriculum is cyclical. Students will have the opportunity to relearn and add to their knowledge as they pass through the elementary grades. This learning needs to take place in an atmosphere of safety, support, and respect in all student to student, student to teacher, and teacher to student relationships.
Reading: Reading themes will include adventure, personal challenge, mystery, fantasy, autobiography, biography, and historical fiction.
* Students will participate in large and small reading groups.
* Students will respond to reading using comprehension packets, response journals, book reports, and short-term projects.
* Students will begin quarterly book reports beginning in November. The format of the report may change periodically. Students will be informed of any change before each assignment.
* Independent Reading: Students are expected to read 30 minutes 3-4 days in a 7 day week. They may choose to read
Accelerated Reader books, or any other book they are interested in, at their reading level.
* Novels read in the classroom are Accelerated reader.
Language Arts: (English, Writing, Spelling) Language skills are developed through the use of proper grammar, mechanics, spelling, and vocabulary. Language activities can be taught in isolation: weekly spelling practice and daily language reviews. Language practice is embedded in writing activities such as: student generated writing, writing prompts, and assigned writing for other curricular areas.
Science: Integrated technology, research, hands on projects, and classroom lessons are methods to investigate and construct understanding in the following themes:
* Ecology interactions between organisms and resources
* Weather
* Earth’s interacting spheres
* Properties of matter
* Pond studies
* School yard habitat
* Using scientific tools
* Growth and development
* Personal safety
Social Studies: Fifth grade focus is the United States and its history. Research, hands on projects, classroom lessons, and integrated technology are used to assist students in expanding their depth of knowledge.
* Map and globe skills
* State study
* Migration to the Americas
* Ancient Civilizations
* European Explorers
* Colonization of North America
* Revolutionary War
* Building a Nation
Mathematics: Students will apply skills using problem solving, reasoning, communication, making connections, representation, and technology within the mathematics curriculum.
* Number Sense, Numeration , Operations
* Geometry, and Spatial Sense
* Patterns, Relationships and Functions
* Data, Probability, and Statistics
* Measurement
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