Fifth Grade

List of 11 items.

Reading & Literature
- Comprehension through oral and written responses to novels and non-fiction
- Critical thinking: make inferences, discuss themes, and analyze personal voice, point-of-view, and author purpose
- Novels, short stories, nonfiction, expository writing, and poetry
- Media for literal text and sub-text
- Thematic novel studies
- Meaning of words and phrases as they are used in a text, including figurative languages such as metaphors and similes
Writing & Language Arts
- Organized summaries and paragraphs relating literary events to personal experiences, other texts, and the world
- Narratives to develop real or imagined experiences or events
- Opinion pieces on topics or texts, supporting a point of view
- Grammar and spelling rules
- Research skills: taking notes and long-term writing assignments
- Informative/explanatory texts to examine a topic and convey ideas and information
- Publishing and presenting writing
- Vocabulary using Classical Roots
Social Studies
- Use primary and secondary sources
- African American Civil Rights movement
- European Resistance movement during World War II
- Activist movements throughout history
Mathematics
- Facility with four basic arithmetic operations applied to whole numbers, fractions, and decimals
- Measuring 2-D and 3-D shapes
- Polygons
- Rounding and estimating whole numbers and decimals
- Relationships among fractions, decimals, and percents
- Problem-solving strategies
- Collecting, organizing, and displaying data
Science
- Living Systems- Redwood Ecology & Overnight trip
- Climate Change
- States of Matter
- Earth & Constellations
Spanish
- High-frequency words
- Reading of class novel Tumba and related comprehension and extension activities
- Understanding of culture through the study of geography and peoples of Spanish-speaking countries
- Listening and speaking skills
- Writing in Spanish through comprehension activities and “Timed Free Writes”
- 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
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 solfège
- Introduction to band for instrumentalists
- Introduction to Irish music
Physical Education
- Specialized movement skills related to team sports
- Health-enhancing physical activity
- Relationship between body type and movement skills
Library
- Literature of Own Voices- notable history/events/holidays reflecting individual/diverse lifestyles and values
- Digital Citizenship- rights, responsibilities, & opportunities of living in the digital world (safe, legal, ethical)
- Accessing information through books and online sources
Community Engaged Learning
- Pollinator Posse: grow habitat and care for monarch caterpillars and butterflies with first grade buddies