Welcome to 5th Grade Learning!
Throughout the year, students will build important skills, explore new ideas, ask meaningful questions, and grow as independent learners. Each subject gives students chances to think, create, collaborate, and challenge themselves.
Read. Think. Discuss. Grow
In ELA, students will strengthen their reading comprehension, vocabulary, fluency, and critical-thinking skills. We will explore a variety of genres, discuss texts, support our ideas with evidence, and grow as thoughtful, confident readers.
This year we will focus on:
Reading Comprehension
Text evidence
Theme and main idea
Vocabulary
Literary and informational texts
Reader's Workshop
Your ideas. Your voice. Your story.
Students will develop their writing through the writing process while learning how authors plan, draft, revise, edit, and publish their work.
Our major writing units include:
Narrative Writing
Opinion Writing
Informative Writing
Grammar and conventions
Writer's Workshop
Wonder. Investigate. Discover
Science gives students opportunities to ask questions about the world around them and investigate those questions through observations, models, discussions, and hands-on learning.
Students will:
Ask scientific questions
Make predictions
Collect and analyze evidence
Develp explanations
Participate in hands-on investigations
Learn through Mystery Science activities
Explore the past. Understand the present.
Students will explore history, geography, cultures, government, and the events that helped shape our country and world. We will analyze sources, make connections, and learn to think like historians.
Students will practice:
Reading maps and timelines
Analyzing primary and secondary sources
Understanding cause and effect
Comparing perspectives
Making connections between past and present