5TH GRADE

CURRICULUM NIGHT

Houle/Holt Team Room 201 ~ Shelley Houle; Language Arts & Social Studies

Room 205 ~ Patty Holt; Math & Science

Hanawalt/Sleight Team Room 204 ~ Tiffiny Sleight; Language Arts & Social Studies

Room 202 ~ Dianne Hanawalt; Math & Science

READING

Reader’s Workshop Model

• Teacher teaches targeted mini-lessons that meet state standards

• Students self-select “just right” books to read silently

• Students practice skills from mini-lessons using their own book or teacher selected passage

• Teacher facilitates 1:1 conferencing and small guided groups

Resources • Scott Foresman (CSD adopted anthology)

• Storyworks magazine by Scholastic

• Leveled books

• Literature Studies (Holes, Tuck Everlasting, The Sign of the Beaver, and Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH

WRITING

Writer’s Workshop Model

• Teacher teaches targeted mini-lessons that meet state standards

• Students practice writing in their journals

• Teacher facilitates 1:1 conferencing and small guided groups

Writing Forms

• Personal Narratives

• Report Writing

• Informational Writing*

• Persuasive Writing*

*Mostly likely will be assessed on these two forms in future grades

Traditional • 20 words a week • Weekly words based on

spelling patterns • Words are different each

week • No emphasis on spelling

correctly in writing

TRADITIONAL SP EL L ING VS. S ITTON

Sitton Spelling • Number varies each

week

• Words based on targeted skills lessons and pulled from grade level priority and core words

• Words are cycled…they keep popping up.

• Focused emphasis on proofreading skills and improving spelling in content areas (reading, writing, science, etc.)

Spelling is now part of the Writing grade on Report Cards. An indicator score of 1, 2, 3, or 4 will be given based on student achievement on spelling tests and spelling within their writing.

SOCIAL STUDIES

In fifth grade, students use their understanding of social studies concepts and cause-and-effect relationships to study the development of the United States up to 1791.

• History

• Geography

• Economics

• Civics

SOCIAL STUDIES

~Development of Indigenous Societies ~First Contact with Europeans

~Explorers ~Colonization ~Rising Tensions between Colonies and Britain

~The Revolutionary War ~ The Constitution and Government

Areas of Study

SCIENCE

Grades 4 – 5 consists of nine Core Content

Standards within the science domains.

• Physical Science (force and motion, states of matter, and heat, light, sound and electricity)

• Earth and Space Science (earth in space, formation of earth materials, and focus on fossils)

• Life Science (structures and behaviors, food webs, and heredity and adaptation)

Within the context of several science lessons.. • Systems…how the parts of objects, plants, and animals are

connected and work together.

• Inquiry…conduct a variety of investigations.

• Application…product of own design to solve a problem.

CAMAS DISTRICT

FOSS kits

• Matter and Energy

• Landforms

• Environments

Human Growth and Development

Class and teacher developed lessons!!

WA STATE MATH STANDARDS

5.1. Core Content: Multi-digit division (Operations, Algebra) Students

learn efficient ways to divide whole numbers.

5.2. Core Content: Addition and subtraction of fractions and decimals (Numbers, Operations, Algebra)

Students learn procedures for adding and subtracting fractions and

decimals.

5.3. Core Content: Triangles and quadrilaterals (Geometry/Measurement, Algebra)

Classify, find area and perimeter, find shape symmetry.

MATH STANDARDS…

5.4. Core Content: Representations of algebraic relationships (Operations, Algebra)

Students continue their development of algebraic thinking as they

move toward more in-depth study of algebra in middle school.

use variables to write simple algebraic expressions

evaluate simple algebraic expressions

make tables and graphs from linear

…MATH STANDARDS

5.5. Additional Key Content (Numbers, Data/Statistics/Probability)

Students extend their work with common factors and common

multiples as they deal with prime numbers. Students extend and

reinforce their use of numbers, operations, and graphing to describe

and compare data.

5.6. Core Processes: Reasoning, problem solving, and communication Students in grade five solve problems that extend their

understanding of core mathematical concepts as they make strategic

decisions leading to reasonable solutions.

CAMAS DISTRICT CURRICULUM

Math Connects

• Daily lessons, daily practice, benchmark and unit

tests.

• On-line support at

http://www.macmillanmh.com/math/mathconne

cts/wa/index.html

STANDARDS PRACTICE SITE

IXL at www.ixl.com

• Individualized practice of Common Core

Standards

• Student access through username and

password

• Teacher/parent/student can monitor progress