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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,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
Service Learning
Pollinator Posse: grow habitat and care for
monarch caterpillars and butterflies with first grade buddies
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Oakland, CA 94610
510.285.9600
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