Grade Level Objectives

LANGUAGE ARTS

READING

A fifth grade student:

• Reads and comprehends unfamiliar words using root words, synonyms, antonyms, prefixes, and suffixes
• Clarifies word meaning using context clues and a variety of resources
• Explains, interprets, and/or justifies ideas from literature (nonfiction and fiction)
• Understands organization patterns (main idea, theme, characterization, detail, plot, compare/contrast, and cause-effect) of text
• Demonstrates comprehension of a variety of reading materials
• Reads age-appropriate material independently
• Identifies the various characteristics of different genres
• Responds to literary material by making inferences, drawing conclusions, and comparing it to individual experience, prior knowledge, and other texts
• Interprets tables, maps, charts, and illustrations

Resources:

A Legacy of Literacy, Houghton Mifflin, 2001, http://eduplace.com

WRITING/GRAMMAR

A fifth grade student:

• Uses correct grammar, spelling, punctuation, capitalization, and sentence structure
• Responds to questions using complete sentences
• Applies the writing process (drafting, revising, editing, publishing, and sharing)
• Supports writing with details and maintains focus and logical organization
• Writes for a variety of purposes and for a specific audience in a variety of forms including: narrative, expository, and persuasive writings
• Utilizes technology to produce compositions
• Gathers information using reference materials and technology
• Paraphrases information
• Analyzes and evaluates information acquired from various sources
• Creates a variety of print and nonprint documents to communicate acquired information for specific audiences through oral presentations

Resources:

English, Houghton Mifflin, 1995, http://eduplace.com/

SPELLING

A fifth grade student:

• Spells fifth grade word list correctly
• Spells correctly on assessments
• Uses correct spelling in daily work
• Uses correct pronunciation as a strategy for spelling words correctly
• Uses resources to locate correct spelling

Resources:

Spelling is incorporated in the Houghton Mifflin A Legacy of Literacy Reading Program. http://eduplace.com/

HANDWRITING

A fifth grade student:

• Uses correct cursive form
• Uses cursive exclusively except for labeling and when the teacher requests manuscript printing

Resources:

Palmer Method Handwriting, Macmillan, 1987

MATHEMATICS

A fifth grade student:

• Demonstrates mastery of multiplication and division facts through 100
• Divides a multiple digit number by a 2-digit divisor
• Reads, writes, compares, and orders decimal numbers to the hundredths place
• Adds and subtracts decimal numbers to the hundredths place
• Applies decimal concepts to money value
• Adds and subtracts fractions with like and unlike denominators
• Writes equivalent fractions
• Understands geometric concepts including area and perimeter and quadrilaterals: parallelograms, trapezoids, and rhombus
• Identifies angles as obtuse, acute, right, or straight
• Measures an angle using a protractor
• Chooses the appropriate standard unit for measuring length, distance, weight, and volume
• Applies measurement skills including: estimating and measuring object lengths, widths, or heights in inches, feet, yards, centimeters, and meters, measuring to the nearest 1/8 inch
• Reads, compares, analyzes data in a circle graph, tables, and charts
• Finds the mean (average)
• Finds the missing algebraic number in a number sentence
• Makes predictions based upon statistical data
• Rounds whole numbers to the nearest large place value
• Uses a variety of problem solving strategies
• Estimates products and quotients

Resources:

Everyday Mathematics, Everyday Learning Corporation, 2002

http://www.wrightgroup.com/

SCIENCE

The fifth grade student explores the concepts of science through the following units:

• Life Science: Systems in Living Things (theme: systems)

• Life processes of plants and animals
• Structure of plant and animal cells
• Human digestive, respiratory, circulatory, and excretory systems
• Life cycles of plants and animals

• Earth Science: The Solar System and Beyond (theme: scale)

• The night sky

• How astronomers learn about space

• The solar system

• Stars and galaxies

• Survival in space

• Physical Science: Matter and Energy (theme: models)

• Properties and states of matter

• Elements, compounds, and mixtures

• Forms of energy

• Energy transfer

• Changes in energy and matter

Fifth grade students participate in a space simulation to reinforce third and fifth grade science objectives.

Resources:

Discovery Works, Houghton Mifflin, 2003, http://eduplace.com/

SOCIAL SCIENCE

Fifth grade students focus on exploring the history of the United States, beginning with native peoples and moving through the colonial period up to the American Revolution. Concepts explored include:

• Colonial Government
• Basic U.S. political documents
• Present form of government
• Colonial resources and economic systems
• Historical experiences of native peoples, explorers, colonists and revolutionary war figures
• Native American cultures
• Influence of England
• Colonial social systems
• Religious freed/tolerance

Resources:

Social Studies Alive! America's Past, Teachers Curriculum Institute, 2005, http://historyalive.com/curriculum/curriculumSSA.asp

TECHNOLOGY

A fifth grade student:

• Types 20 words per minute with 90% accuracy
• Applies word processing skills
• Uses computer research skills
• Integrates technology into class assignments

PHYSICAL EDUCATION

A fifth grade student:

• Uses ball handling skills (throw, dribble, catch, roll, shoot, kick, etc.) in a variety of organized games and sports
• Develops combinations of body relationships (side by side, face to face, etc.) through rhythms and dance activities
• Participates in an environment that promotes physical fitness, sportsmanship, maximum effort, and enjoyment
• Understands rules and strategies increasing in complexity to enhance participation and emphasize safety
• Uses basic skills to manipulate and control objects with greater accuracy through the use of ropes, scooters, hoops, balls, bats, rackets, etc.
• Has opportunities to work on cooperation and joint decision making in team situations
• Refines educational gymnastic skills through the practice of stunts, tumbling, balance, and movement sequences
• Creates space for self, others, or objects in game situations

MUSIC

A fifth grade student:

• Demonstrates ability to play beginning guitar (plays six chords, names the parts of the instruments, names the strings, accompanies singing alone or with a group)
• Participates in musical theater. This is an opportunity for students to experience first hand exactly what a musical is and how it is produced by:
• Auditioning for a part, participating in blocking and choreography
• Playing a character (either speaking or non-speaking)
• Singing expressively and projecting voice without damaging it
• Cooperative learning in rehearsal setting
• Designing, developing, and painting sets
• Performing before a live audience in full makeup and costumes
• Explores American folk music
• Listens to and analyzes various kinds of folk music
• Writes and performs a shanty or work song
• Researches, writes, and performs a historical ballad
• Explores ways composers have used folk music in their own compositions
• Demonstrates understanding and improvises 12-bar blues patterns on recorder and classroom instruments
• Continues to develop music reading skills using recorder
• Demonstrates performance skills by singing, playing, and dancing together in a concert setting

Fifth grade students may participate in Fourth/Fifth Grade Chorus, Fifth Grade Orchestra, and/or Beginning Band before school one morning a week. Orchestra and Band include one lesson a week during the school day.

Resources:

Share the Music, McGraw-Hill, 1998,  http://www.mhschool.com/

ART

A fifth grade student:

• Identifies line, direction, shape, size, texture, value, and color in a composition
• Develops basic skills in creating a painting, drawing, and sculpture
• Understands the principles of rhythm, size, proportion, and composition
• Understands how perspective is used in a composition (vanishing point,
• foreground, mid-ground, and background)
• Identifies the expressive qualities of a work of art
• Understands the artistic processes of creating in paint, ink, fiber art, and sculpture
• Understands some roles that art shapes and reflects history, society, and everyday life as it pertains to the fifth grade curriculum

CHARACTER COUNTS in District 57

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A person of character is trustworthy, treats people with respect, is responsible, is fair, is caring, and is a good citizen.