Curriculum

In Reading this year we will be working on:

• making inferences

• main idea and support details

• summarizing

• explain how people, events, ideas or concepts are related in informational texts

• determine the meaning of grade level vocabulary including figurative language

• analyzes multiple related texts with similarities and differences 

• uses print and digital sources to locate information to answer questions and solve problems

• identify reasons and evidence an author uses to support specific ideas in a text

• integrate information from multiple sources on the same topic to write and speak about one topic

• read and comprehend grade level material

in Writing we will focus our three types of writing (narrative, persuasive, informational) on the 6 traits of writing for assessment:

• Ideas

• Organization

• Word Choice

• Voice

• Sentence Fluency

• Conventions

In Math the big concepts 5th graders will learn about is:

• place value in multi digit numbers 10 times a number or 1/10 of a number

• powers of 10 and exponents

• decimals in standard and expanded form

• rounding decimals

• fluently multiply multi-digit whole numbers using the standard algorithm

• find whole number quotients of whole numbers with up to four digit dividends and two digit divisors (long division)

• add, subtract, multiply and divide decimals to hundredths 

• order of operations

• multi-step word problems with multiple operations

• fractions

• convert measurement units 

• Volume

• graph points in the first quadrant of the coordinate plane

• two dimensional figures 

In Word Work this year we will.....

-sort words based on their spelling patterns and learn about the reasons they are spelled that way

-use our words to expand our vocabulary

-practice these words using a variety of fun games!

This year 5th grade will have Science and Social Studies again! I will be teaching science for our class, but we will be switching to Mrs. Mahoney's classroom for social studies.  This will help us get comfortable with a new teacher for a subject and also moving classrooms. A really great skill for middle school! We hope to keep this fun and exciting for the kids! 

Choose Love- this social emotional curriculum will be talked about often at our morning meetings and will also be the basis of many social activities we do to stay connected to each other this year! If you'd like to check out the curriculum please click CHOOSE LOVE and check it out! It is an awesome program that even offers an at home version to help support! In these uncertain times all we can do is choose to show love and kindness to all!