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Fifth Grade
List of 11 items.
Reading & Literature
Develop comprehension through oral and written responses to novels and non-fiction
Develop critical thinking skills: make inferences, discuss themes, and analyze personal voice, point-of-view, and author purpose
Read and discuss novels, short stories, nonfiction, expository writing, and poetry
Read media for literal text and sub-text
Participate in thematic novel studies
Determine the meaning of words and phrases as they are used in a text, including figurative language such as metaphors and similes.
Writing & Language Arts
Write organized summaries and paragraphs relating literary events to personal experiences, other texts, and the world
Write narratives to develop real or imagined experiences or events using effective techniques, descriptive details, and clear event sequences
Write opinion pieces on topics or texts, supporting a point of view with reasons and information
Practice grammar and spelling rules
Develop research skills: taking notes and long-term writing assignments
Write informative/explanatory texts to examine a topic and convey ideas and information clearly
Publish and present writing
Study vocabulary using Classical Roots
Social Studies
Analyze primary and secondary sources
African American Civil Rights movement
European Resistance movement during World War II
Activist movements throughout history
Mathematics
Increasing facility with four basic arithmetic operations applied to whole numbers, fractions, and decimals
Measure of 2-D and 3-D shapes
Identifying polygons
Round and estimate whole numbers and decimals
Understand relationships among fractions, decimals, and percents
Developing problem-solving strategies
Collecting, organizing, and displaying data
Science
Climate Age
Patterns of Earth and Sky
Develop facility with scientific method
Brainology: develop an understanding of how the brain functions and of one’s own learning
Pollinator Posse garden project Redwood ecology
Spanish
Students will
Share about themselves and learn about peers using high frequency words
Participate in class reading of class novel Tumba and related comprehension and extension activities
Expand understanding of culture through the study of geography and peoples of Spanish Speaking countries
Develop listening and speaking skills
Experiment with writing in Spanish through comprehension activities and “Timed Free Writes”
Students will be exposed to:
The “súper siete” - the seven most frequently used verbs in Spanish Subject pronouns (yo, tú, él/ella/elle, usted, nosotros, ellos/ellas/elles)
Articles (el/la/los/las)
Spelling patterns
STEAM/Technology
Digital Citizenship: information privacy, cyberbullying, copyright, plagiarism
Google Applications: Drive, Docs, Slides, etc.
Adobe Voice
Visual Arts
Drawing: light/shade value studies
Clay
Mixed media collages: Romare Bearden
Foreshortening
Paint mixing
Monochromatic painting
Flower rangolis
Gee's Bend quilts
3D artwork
Music
Fourth and fifth grade choir
American folk and popular songs
Caribbean folk and popular songs
Blues and pre-blues music
Intermediate North Indian classical singing
Touch stroke and heel-toe techniques on conga drums
Scales and arpeggios in solfege
Introduction to band for instrumentalists
Introduction to Irish music
Physical Education
Developing specialized movement skills
related to team sports
Participating daily in a health-enhancing
physical activity
Understanding the relationship between
body type and movement skills
Community Engaged Learning
Pollinator Posse: grow habitat and care for
monarch caterpillars and butterflies with first grade buddies
St. Paul's Episcopal School
116 Montecito Avenue
Oakland, CA 94610
510.285.9600
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