5th

Grade Curriculum

Common Core State

Standards Arizona is one of 46 states to have formally adopted the Common

Core State Standards The standards are posted in our room and….

0 Are aligned with college and work expectations 0 Are clear, understandable and consistent 0 Include rigorous content and application of knowledge through

high-order skills 0 Build upon strengths and lessons of current state standards 0 Designed so that all students are prepared to succeed in our global

economy and society

Common Core Standards

Math 2013-2014

Work on Fluency

Investigations in Data and Space II

SFAW is a math basal.

Math

A systematic morning procedure for math review and the students will be utilizing a math notebook for CGI problem solving practice.

Students will typically have a three or four new lessons throughout the week and will be given a weekly check-up of the concepts learned that week.

A lot of the student’s learning in math comes from correcting their own work. This allows them to note patterns of errors and areas of difficulties. It is important that the students complete their own homework each evening and bring it back to school the following morning in order to correct it with the class.

Math – Part 2

Common Core Standards

Language Arts 2012-2013

Reading

A Reader is not someone who knows how to read but someone who reads independently, responsively, critically, and because he/she wants to.

We use the basal series created by Harcourt Trophies as our reading instructional material.

Reading comprehension is the key focus. We will work on reading comprehension skills and strategies throughout every subject area – fiction and non-fiction. We will also do plenty of discussion both partners, small group, and whole group about self-selected literature. Expect your student to also be required to reflect on the literature.

Vocabulary will be focused in all content areas.

Reading

In addition to the basal series, we will read novels as a class throughout the year.

Some of the novels we read last year were Hatchet, Frindle, Blood on the River, Can’t You Make Them Behave King George, Wrinkle in Time, The Mostly True Adventures of Homer P. Figg, Lion, Witch, and the Wardrobe, Bridge to Terabithia, and Where the Red Fern Grows to name a few. We will determine the novels we read each quarter based on the students’ needs.

Your son or daughter will also be encouraged to read independently daily for at least 30 minutes. Talk about literature!

40 book challenge

Reading – Part 2

Coinciding with novel studies, students will be reading books independently Students will be required to reflect on literature using their reading journals daily

We will be comparing the same subject using different types of media CAFE

Reading – Part 3

• In the fifth grade, we focus on teaching students to write for a variety of purposes through the format of a Writer’s Workshop and/or content-integrated writing.

•Persuasive/opinion, informative/expository, narrative, business letters, personal letters, summaries, literature responses, research

• We implement the Six-Traits of writing as a way of instructing and assessing students in writing.

•Ideas, organization, word choice, sentence fluency, voice, conventions, and presentation

• Our writing projects coincide with the genres and content-area related topics that we are reading about and covering each quarter.

Writing

Spelling is part of your child’s writing grade – under the writing 6-trait of conventions

We will be focusing on prefixes, roots, and suffixes this year. Menu is on web page

The students will have a spelling menu or individual directions each week

Final tests are given on Fridays

Spelling

Our focus in on American history from the early 1400s up until the 1860s.

1st quarter we begin the year with a unit on Exploration and Colonization.

2nd quarter the students will continue to study colonization and they will learn about the American Revolution.

3rd quarter they will learn about the establishing of the early American Government and Western Expansion of the United States.

4th quarter they will learn about the Civil War.

Social Studies

•We will be using a hands-on, investigation toolkit created by FOSS in addition to various trade books that support the KSD science curriculum, investigations, and experiments we do in class. • The state standards focus heavily on the scientific processes, so students will be conducting many controlled experiments. In other words, experiments where they can observe, classify, measure, infer, predict, design, and communicate.

Science

0Scientific Process – throughout the year 0Body Systems – The Human Body – muscular, skeletal, and nervous systems

0Forces and Motion – Levers and Pulleys 0Matter and Energy – Chemistry 0Biomes 0Earth and Space – Out of this World!

Science Units

Health promotion and disease prevention.

Promote the practice of health-enhancing behaviors and reduce health risks.

Analyze the influence of culture, media, technology, and other factors on health.

Use interpersonal skills, goal-setting, and decision-making to enhance and advocate for physical, mental, and emotional health for themselves, families, and communities.

Human Growth and Development and HIV/AIDS

Health

• Integrated throughout our curriculum, thinking maps are a way for students to visually organize their thinking.

•8 maps have a specific function

•Parent FYI handout is available on our website

Thinking Maps

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