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