5th Grade

Welcome to 5th Grade!

One of our goals is that each student will become a lifelong, responsible learner. We feel that it is important that students strengthen their study and organizational skills. Students should become more self – reliant and independent. We expect students to complete required assignments to the best of their abilities and on time.

Math:

Our fifth grade program is designed to develop understanding through the connection of concrete experiences to abstract concepts as part of a comprehensive plan. Application, problem-solving, and logic is stressed throughout the year as well as appropriate mathematical vocabulary. The following is covered in fifth grade:

Numbers, counting, and fractions
Writes, orders and expresses place value through billions
Rounds numbers to the nearest whole number and greatest place
Works with decimals and fractions
Expresses fractions in the simplest form
Writes ratios as fractions
Changes fractions to whole numbers or mixed numbers
Expresses fractions and mixed numbers as decimals to the thousandths place
Operations
Multiplies multiples of 10, 100, 1,000
Multiplies three-digit numbers by three- digit numbers
Divides 4-digit numbers by 1 or 2 digit numbers, with or without remainders
Finds averages
Uses calculator
Adds, subtracts, and multiplies fractions
Adds, subtracts, and multiplies decimals
Chooses the appropriate operation to solve word problems
Identifies needed or missing information in a problem and solves the problem
Uses decimals to express amounts of money
Measurement & time
Uses the appropriate tool to measure temperature, mass, distance, time, capacity
Geometry
Identifies right, acute, and obtuse angles
Identifies parallel, intersecting, and perpendicular lines
Identifies congruent or similar shapes, shapes that have lines of symmetry, and solid shapes
Finds perimeters of polygons, area of rectangles, and volumes of rectangular solids
Patterns, functions, & probability
Reads and creates picture graphs, line graphs, circle graphs, and bar graphs
Locates points on graph for ordered pairs

Language Arts:

The Benchmark Literacy Reading Series and Science of Reading is the core of our reading program. Students are exposed to a wide range of quality literature. Reading, Word Study, and Writing skills are developed through integrated lesson plans in conjunction with the literature. Development of literal comprehension, interpretation and evaluation, vocabulary, and fluency skills are emphasized. A goal of our program is to develop lifelong readers. We want our students to read, read, read!

Students are involved in resource management skill development. We continue to work on media and technology skills. Students create documents through researching, writing, and publishing. Speaking skills are developed as students plan and organize group presentations. Individual presentations are also part of the fifth grade curriculum.

Science:

FOSS (Full Option Science System) is the core of our curriculum. Lessons are inquiry based, where students experiment and reflect on what they’ve learned. We supplement this hands-on approach with two texts in the “Science Explorer Series” from Prentice Hall and a monthly magazine called “Super Science” from Scholastic.

The curriculum is based on these three main topics:

Living Systems: In the Living Systems Module, students start by looking at Earth as the interaction of four Earth systems or subsystems: the geosphere, the atmosphere, the hydrosphere, and the biosphere. The focus of the module then turns to the biosphere as students explore the phenomenon of ecosystems and organisms in terms of their interacting parts.
Mixtures and Solutions: In the Living Systems Module, students start by looking at Earth as the interaction of four Earth systems or subsystems: the geosphere, the atmosphere, the hydrosphere, and the biosphere. The focus of the module then turns to the biosphere as students explore the phenomenon of ecosystems and organisms in terms of their interacting parts.
Earth and Sun: In the Earth and Sun Module, students will explore the relationship between our planet and the Sun. Earth travels around the Sun in a nearly circular orbit at a distance of about 150 million kilometers. Earth is water rich, with 71% of the planet’s surface covered with water. It is surrounded by a shallow atmosphere of nitrogen (78%) and oxygen (21%), and small amounts of a lot of other gases.

Social Studies:

The curriculum deals with the geography and history of North America, with emphasis on the United States. Within this topic, our students study about:

The Land and People
The First Americans
Exploration of North America
The American Colonies
The American Revolution

Health:

The curriculum uses a comprehensive program designed to provide your students with the knowledge, life skills, and thinking skills they need in order to achieve good health.

Topics include:
Power of Three
Dealing with feelings
Growth and Development
Keeping fit and Healthy
Foods for Good Nutrition
Drug Awareness
Safet

Click HERE to go to 5th Grade Teacher Pages.

Milaca 5th Grade Math Resources!

*Click on the link below to download a list of resources tied directly to our curriculum used in the classroom.

Milaca Math Resources.doc

5th Grade Language Arts Resources and Games

Find Books to Read
Type in your favorite book, and this website will list 20 others similar to it.
http://www.whatshouldireadnext.com/index.php
Find books with your Lexile Range – www.lexile.com

Spelling
Super Teacher

Main Idea
Main Idea Song – http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W24RyhtX1qA
http://www.quia.com/pop/120023.html?AP_rand=1115010154

Literary Elements(Point of View, Poetic Devices and Misc.)
http://www.quia.com/rr/627140.html

Synonyms and Antonyms
http://www.abcya.com/synonyms_antonyms.htm

Idioms
https://www.abcya.com/games/hold_the_phone
https://www.quia.com/cb/103072.html
https://www.childrensuniversity.manchester.ac.uk/learning-activities/languages/words/idioms-game/

Grammar
http://www.abcya.com/fifth_grade_computers.htm
Grammar Gorillas – http://www.funbrain.com/grammar/index.html
https://www.education.com/games/fifth-grade/grammar/
https://www.abcya.com/grades/5
https://www.snappywords.com/games/spelling-bee

Word Work
Root Words – http://www.funbrain.com/roots/index.html

Figurative Language
https://www.internet4classrooms.com/grade_level_help/literature_figurative_language_language_arts_fifth_5th_grade.htm
https://jeopardylabs.com/play/5th-grade-figurative-language-41