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FIFTH GRADE
Mrs. Karen Landers
Mrs. Joanne Poulin
School Supplies
Religion
By the end of Grade 5, students will:
- develop an appreciation of the Church
as a worshipping community
- examine Christ's action among us in the
Eucharistic Liturgy
- examine Christ's action among us in the Sacraments of the Church
- examine Christ's action among us in our celebration of the Liturgical seasons and in the lives of the saints
- be guided to respond to God's presence
in prayer and in loving service to others
Language Arts
By the end of Grade 5, students will:
In Reading:
- create generalizations and predict outcomes from story
- ask questions, make connections, monitor and summarize while reading
- identify cause and effect relationships
- demonstrate sequencing skills
- differentiate between main ideas and details
- identify different genres of writing
- participate in a dramatization
- recognize story elements and identify character traits
In Writing:
- understand and apply five steps of writing process
- organize information to convey a central idea using well-developed paragraphs that focus on a main idea and give relevant supporting details
- write in a variety of forms (poems, stories, biographies) for different purposes
- evaluate own work and respond to peer evaluation
- present and evaluate oral presentations adjusting delivery for different audiences
- use open-ended research questions, different sources of information, and appropriate
research methods to gather information
In Grammar:
- use simple, complex, and compound sentences effectively
- recognize and give examples of complete and simple subjects and predicates
- identify parts of speech, including nouns, verbs, adjectives, adverbs, possessives
- recognize past, present, and future tenses
- use four types of sentences in writing (declarative, imperative, interrogative, and exclamatory)
Mathematics
By the end of Grade 5, students will:
- demonstrate knowledge of place values through billions
- solve word problems using various strategies
- use front-end and regular estimation to determine reasonable answer
- use basic facts to solve complex, multiple-step problems with mixed operations
- apply skills for addition, subtraction, multiplication and division of fractions and mixed numbers
- create and solve open-ended problems
- add, subtract, multiply, and divide decimals
- draw a circle and its radius and diameter
- recognize and draw rectangle, triangle, square, perpendicularlines, and parallel lines
- draw and measure angles
- graph ordered pairs on a grid
- recognize, create, and use bar, pie and line graphs to read, chart, and analyze
data
Science:
By the end of Grade 5, students will:
In Life Science:
- classify all living and non-living things
- describe the needs of plants and animals
- compare animal cells and functions
- explain photosynthesis
- experience setting up an ecosystem
- learn scientific names
- name extinct and endangered species
In Earth Science:
- use observation techniques, tables, models, graphs, and charts to communicate results
- describe different kinds of energy
In Physical Science:
- name and describe properties and states of matter
- describe simple machines and their uses
- describe devices that improve quality of life (inventions)
- learn and apply knowledge of Periodic Table of Elements
Social Studies
By the end of Grade 5, students will:
- list characteristics of the main North American Indian groups
- identify early explorers who rediscovered, explored, and settled in North and South America
- explain the relationship between geography and people to history
- list people and events that led to the American Revolution
- summarize the founding of the colonies by Europeans and unification during the search for independence
- understand scale, symbols, latitude, and longitude on maps
- use a grid system to locate places
- locate North and South Pole, Equator, Prime Meridian on maps
- compare and contrast information in graphs and tables
- map routes of explorers and colonists
- understand use of compasses
- outline writing and messages of our Declaration of Independence and Constitution
Computer Technology
By the end of Grade 5, students will:
- apply keyboarding skills to improve speed and accuracy
- use a word processing application to create and format a document
- create, modify, and interpret spreadsheet data
- understand options for graph displays
- recognize the need for protection of software and hardware from computer viruses and vandalism
- create and modify a multimedia presentation citing sources of copyrighted materials
- participate in core curriculum-based telecommunications projects as a class activity
- evaluate information found via telecommunications for appropriateness, content, and usefulness
Music
By the end of Grade 5, students will:
- recognize simple harmonious progression
- sing a varied repertoire of folk, art, and contemporary songs
- compare and contrast the music and cultures of several time periods and regions of the world
- use standard notation as a guide to singing and playing classroom instruments
Art
Progressively from Grade 5 through Grade 8, students will:
- expand the repertoire of 2-D and 3-D art processes, techniques, and materials with a focus on the range of effects possible within each medium, such as: 2-D transparent and opaque media, wet, dry, stippled, blended, wash effects, printmaking, etc.
- create artwork that demonstrates an awareness of the range and purpose of such tools as pens, brushes, markers, etc.
- use the appropriate vocabulary related to the methods, materials, and techniques students have learned and used previously
- learn the elements and principles of design and be able to demonstrate knowledge of the following skills:
- for color: use and be able to identify hues, values, intermediate shades, tints, tones, colors, etc. and demonstrate awareness of color by painting objective studies from life and free-form abstractions that employ relative properties of color
- for line: use and be able to identify various types of line, for example in contour drawings, calligraphy, freehand drawings, etc.
- for texture: use and be able to differentiate between surface texture and the illusion of texture (visual texture)
- for shape: form and pattern, use and be able to identify an expanding and increasingly sophisticated array of shapes and forms, such as organic, geometric, positive and negative, or varieties of symmetry
- for space and composition: create unified 2-D and 3-D compositions that demonstrate an understanding of balance, repetition, scale, rhythm, harmony and emphasis
- create 2-D and 3-D representational artwork from direct observation in order to develop skills of perception, discrimination, physical coordination, and memory of detail
- create symbolic artwork by substituting symbols for objects, relationships or ideas
- create artwork that employs use of free form from symbolic imagery that demonstrates personal invention, and/or conveys ideas and emotions (e.g. conflict/cooperation, happiness/grief, excitement/repose)
- produce work that show understanding of the concept of craftsmanship
- demonstrate ability to describe preliminary concepts verbally, to visualize concepts in clear schematic layouts, and to organize and complete projects
- maintain a portfolio of sketches and finished work
- create and prepare artwork for group or individual public exhibitions
- demonstrate a fundamental awareness of architectural styles and the ways that these have influences painting and sculpture
Physical Education
By the end of Grade 5, students will:
- explain the benefits of physical fitness to good health and increased active lifestyle
- demonstrate expected grade-level proficiency in locomotor and non-locomotor skills
- learn rules, basic offensive and defensive skills of lead-up sport games and actual sport games
- demonstrate an awareness of good sportsmanship and the need for fair play in games and activities
- develop an awareness that inappropriate actions can result in harm to themselves or others
Library
By the end of Grade 5, students will:
- use an encyclopedia-book and computer for research
- understand the concept of bibliography
- write research cards containing bibliographic information
- use the copyright date to determine currency of material
- understand when to use an almanac
- understand when to use a biographical dictionary
- understand when to use a geographical dictionary
- location information in a biographical dictionary
- location information in a geographical dictionary
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