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,expository writing, and poetry
  • Read media for literal text and sub-text
  • Participate in thematic novel studies

• Writing & Language Arts

  • Write organized summaries and paragraphs relating literary events to personal experiences, other texts, and the world
  • Use similes, metaphors, and idioms
  • Practice grammar and spelling rules
  • Develop research skills: taking notes and long-term writing assignments
  • 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

  • Solar energy: observe and relate solar energy transfer in a variety of situations
  • 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 with overnight camping trip

• Spanish

  • Participate in class reading of El capibara con botas book and related activities
  • Subject pronouns (yo, tú, él/ella/elle, usted, nosotros, ellos/ellas/elles)
  • Regular and Irregular verb conjugations
  • Build conversational skills
  • Spelling and vocabulary
  • Articles (masculine, feminine)
  • Expand understanding of culture through the study of geography and people of Latin American countries
  • Develop listening and speaking skills through guided conversations with peers
  • Group Oral Presentation 

• STEAM

  • Digital Citizenship: information privacy, cyberbullying, copyright, plagiarism
  • Coding with Scratch and Code.org
  • Gardening and pollination
  • Research: database research, primary sources, automatic bibliographic formatting, citing image sources, website evaluation
  • 2D and 3D Design
  • Google Applications: Drive, Docs, Slides, etc.
  • Tool Usage: Saws, T-square, C-clamps Levels, Power Drill
  • Adobe Voice

• Fine 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