Issue 1 | September | 2015
WELCOME BACK!
N ewsletter
September
Welcome back from the summer!
Although it always seems like it
goes by too fast, your fifth grade
teachers are excited and ready for
the school year! We know that this
year will be fantastic and filled
with more learning than ever
before.
CONTACT US
Lori Dryman
[email protected]
Emma Ouska
[email protected]
Karen Earp
[email protected]
Jean Porter
[email protected]
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September |
2015
Calendar
MONDAY Sept ember 7
Labor Day--No School
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MONDAY Sept ember 14
No School
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TUESDAY Sept ember 15--7:00-9:00 PM
Back t o School Night
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WEDNESDAY Sept ember 23
No School
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Septermber l 2015
CURRICULUM OVERVIEW
Reading:
details from the text
Narrat ive
Explain how a series of chapters fit together to provide
the structure of a story
Compare two or more settings or events drawing on
specific details from the text
Quote accurately when explaining what the text says
explicitly and when drawing inferences
Describe how a narrator?s point of view influences
how events are described
Determine the theme of a story drawing on details
from the text
Analyze how multi-media elements contribute to the
meaning of a text
Analyze how visual and multimedia
contribute to the meaning of a text
Compare two or more characters drawing on specific
elements
Draft a believable conclusion based on events in a
short narrative
Writ ing:
Writ ing: Narrat ive
Draft the exposition to establish the situation and
introduce the narrator and characters
Revise writing using transitional words, phrases, and
clauses to signal time, shift attention, and inject
suspense
Identify past, present or future tense and choose a
tense for a short narrative
Writ ing: Process, Product ion, Research
Develop writing by researching and identifying
Revise writing using transitional words, phrases, and
clauses to signal time, shift attention, and inject
suspense
Develop writing by identifying rising and falling action
events and climax for a short, real or imagined
narrative composition
Analyze narrative techniques to show the response of
characters
Draw evidence from literary texts to support analysis
Writ ing: Use of Language
Draft to develop experiences and plausible events in
the story using pacing
Identify past, present or future tense and choose a
tense for a short narrative
Draft to develop a character?s response to events in
the story using dialogue and descriptive details;
Edit writing for the correct use of commas after
introductory elements
Analyze writing to identify opportunities to use dialect
in a short narrative
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Septermbe l 2015
CURRICULUM OVERVIEW CONTINUED
wants caused colonist to choose certain goods and
services
Social St udies:
Cul t ure
Hist ory
Evaluate how various perspectives cause compromise
or conflict? classroom ground rules and mission
statement
Describe interactions between British colonists and
Britain prior to and during the French and Indian War
Explain how interactions between British colonists and
Britain changed after the French and Indian War
Describe examples of command decisions in colonial
America
Investigate causes of
contemporary conflicts
Investigate causes of contemporary compromises
Economics
Describe
how
available
resources
affected
specialization and trade in the British colonies
Describe and identify examples of tradition in colonial
America? roles of men and women Describe how
limited economic resources and unlimited economics
Mat h:
Apply strategies to determine volume
Number and Operat ions in Base Ten
Relate volume to the operations of addition and
multiplication Solve problems involving volume
Estimate and use the standard algorithm to multiply
a multi-digit number by a 1-digit number (whole
numbers)
Apply a formula (V = b x h) to determine the volume
of rectangular prisms
Estimate and use the standard algorithm to multiply
a 2-digit number by a 2-digit number (whole
numbers)
Estimate and use the standard algorithm to multiply
multi-digit whole numbers
Determine when to use the standard algorithm to
multiply multi-digit whole numbers Use the standard
algorithm to multiply multi-digit whole numbers
Apply formulas to determine the volume of
rectangular prisms
Determine the volume of a solid figure composed of
two non-overlapping rectangular prisms
Represent volume of composed shapes
Operat ions and Al gebraic Thinking
Write and interpret numerical expressions using
grouping symbols (parentheses, brackets, or braces)
Measurement and Dat a
Identify volume as an attribute of solid figures
(rectangular prisms) and measure volume by
counting cubic units
Measure volume by counting unit cubes
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Septermber l 2015
CURRICULUM OVERVIEW CONT'D
Science:
Engineering and Technol ogy
Physical Sciences
Develop an understanding of engineering design as
related to a Request for Proposal
Describe motion based on an experience or simulated
resource
Consider scientific concepts and ideas when rethinking
a technological design
Observe and describe types of motion
Describe an object?s motion using measurements
Use tools, materials, and skills to describe an object?s
motion
Use speed as a measurement to describe motion
Describe speed as the distance traveled per unit of
time Describe motion using distance, time, direction,
and speed
Develop an understanding of engineering design
Demonstrate forces of gravity and friction using a
model
Measure force using a spring scale
Explore how a change in force affects motion
Form generalizations about the relationship between
force and motion based on data Describe and explain
changes in motion and their relationship to the forces
of gravity and friction
Thanks for reading and
staying in touch with
your students! Keep an
eye out for next month's
edition!
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