UTTAM SCHOOL FOR GIRLS
GRADE 5
MONTHLY PLANNER- August, 2015
Learning outcomes of the unit
Class Assignments
Home assignments
Subject
English
Strand – Realistic fiction
Block 7 – Writing a review
 Students
will
review
subjects and predicates in a
sentence and learn to write
complete sentences.
 They will learn to identify
the key details of a story,
give their opinions about the
story and write a story
review on their own.
Strand – Poetry
Block 8 – Alliteration and
Metaphor
 Students will understand that
alliterations and metaphors
are used in a poem make it
interesting.
 They will also learn the
difference
between
a
metaphor and a simile.
Strand – Realistic Fiction
Block 9 – Conflicts and
Perspectives
 The students will understand
the use of possessive
pronouns and adjectives to
show ownership
 They will learn to identify
the conflicts because of the
different opinions of the
characters.
 WORKBOOKBlock-7-S1, S2, S3, S4
 Grammar practice in the
notebook
 Words in focus –
 Practice Questions given at
the end of the block.
Learn Words in focus for
dictation
Subject, predicate,
compound, opinion, review,
approach, impressive,
incident, frantic
 WORKBOOKBlock-8-S1, S2, S3, S4
 Grammar practice in the
notebook
 Words in focus –
 Practice Questions given at
the end of the block.
Learn Words in focus for
dictation
Skylark, soar, speck, stalk,
imagery, alliteration,
metaphor, simile
 WORKBOOKBlock-9-S1, S2, S3, S4
 Grammar practice in the
notebook
 Words in focus –
Conflict, glared, gnarled,
salvaged, pity, strewn,
possessive, evidence,
opinion, stump, perspective,
dialogue
 WORKBOOKBlock-10-S1, S2, S3, S4
 Practice Questions given at
the end of the block.
Learn Words in focus for dictation
Block 10 – Writing an Informal
Letter
The students will learn to write
informal letters to friends and
family members and identify it as
an important form of
communication.
Science
 Grammar practice in the
notebook
 Words in focus –
Informal, purpose, audience,
structure, conjunctions,
compound
Strand – My Body
Block 8 – Our Nervous System
Students will be able to :
 Students will be able to
identify parts of the human
brain and describe their
functions
 Student will be able to
explain how the nervous
system controls and
coordinates the working of
the body
Block 9 – Communicable
Diseases
Students will be able to :
 Recognize that some disease
causing microorganisms
 Differentiate between
communicable and noncommunicable diseases
Worksheets
S1,S2,S3,S4 from the workbook
Reading related text from the
content book.
Writing answer to the practice
questions given at the end of each
block.
Role plays and reading of
articles on Dengue
Read article on deficiency
diseases.
Strand –Food
Block 10– Diet and Health
Students will be able to :
 Explain causes and effects of
malnutrition and obesity
 Create a healthy diet plan for
people of different gender
and age
Social
Science
Strand – Maps and Globes
Block 13 – Using Maps and
Globes
 Students will be able to
compare a map and a globe and
 Observe world map and study
its features
 Reading a map using
elements
 Reading blocks in the content
book.
 Practice Questions in the
decide when to use them based
on the situations
 They will be able to read the
map using all the elements of
the map
Block 14 – parallels and
meridians
 Students will be able to identify
the important lines of latitudes
and longitudes
 Students will be able to identify
the difference between the local
time and standard time
 Students will be able to use
lines of latitude and longitude
to locate a place on the globe
Strand – Earth and universe
Block 15 – motions of the earth
 Students will be able to explain
that the earth rotates on its axis
and revolves around the sun
 Students will be able to infer
the reason for change in season
Hindi
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notebook
Worksheets –
Block13-S1,S2,S3,S4
 Construct the models of the
earth and draw lines of
latitude and longitude
 Read location of a place on a
grid
Worksheets –
Block14-S1,S2,S3,S4
 Observe experiments to
understand the change in the
duration of day and night
Worksheets –
Block5-S1,S2,S3,S4
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Maths
BLOCK 8
DIVIDING
-
FRACTIONS,
Students will learn Division of whole numbers by
fractions using fraction strips
 Division of fractions by whole
numbers using fraction strips

Activities based on the given
topics.
 Questions based on the given
topics in notebooks.
 Worksheets –
Additional Practice
Questions from the XSEED
content book

 Division of fraction by a
fraction
 To solve problems of dividing
fractions and write problems.
S1, S2, S3, S4

Activities based on the given
topics.
 Questions based on the given
 Students will be able totopics in notebooks.
 Draw a map of the classroom to  Worksheets –
scale
S1, S2, S3, S4
 Read a map to scale and find
actual distance between two
places
 Describe the location of states
and cities using cardinal and
ordinal directions in the map of
India
 Find the location of a place
with the help of given
directions
 Activities based on the given

topics.
BLOCK 10- ANGLES
 Questions based on the given
topics in notebooks.
Students will learn  The definition of an angle and  Worksheets –
S1, S2, S3, S4
its parts( vertex, arms)
 To compare the measure of
angles and order them
 To Identify the kinds of angles
as obtuse, acute or right and
defining perpendicular lines
 To make paper protractor with
benchmark measures (30˚, 45˚,
60˚, and 90˚) to measure angles
 To estimate the measure of an
angle to the nearest degree.

BLOCK 9 - MAPS
Additional Practice
Questions from the XSEED
content book
Additional Practice
Questions from the XSEED
content book
CO-SCHOLASTIC ACTIVITIES
LEARNING OBJECTIVES
Dance
Art
Instrumental Music
Patriotic Dance
Still life
Patriotic Songs
Vocal Music
Patriotic Songs
Basket ball
Shooting, basic skills of the game and match practice
Golf
Putting
Advance foot work and ground strokes
Lawn Tennis
Computer
Billiards
Theatre
MS Excel formatting worksheet and functions
Teaching Positions, Grip skills and basic pool game
Improvising situations based on the situations