Each month, this page will be updated with the information we are learning in that specific subject.
Reading:
Social Studies:
- Unit 1: Literary Elements/Plot
- 5 RL 3: Compare and contrast two or more characters, settings, or events in a story or drama, drawing on specific details in the text (e.g., how characters interact). EQ: How do readers compare and contrast characters, settings and events to gain a deeper understanding of the story? Big Idea: Readers compare and contrast characters, settings and events in a story to understand how characters interact and change throughout a text.
- 5 RL 5: Explain how a series of chapters, scenes, or stanzas fits together to provide the overall structure of a particular story, drama, or poem.EQ: How do readers recognize how authors organize or structure the stories they we? How does know this structure help readers to summarize what they read? Big Idea: Author's structure stories in interesting and thoughtful ways in order to engage their readers. Readers use the structure of the story to summarize.
- 5 RL 1 Quote accurately from a text when explaining what the text says explicitly and when drawing inferences from the text. EQ: What is inferring? How do readers infer by using support from the text? How do readers use textual support to explain their thinking when inferring? Big Idea: Readers understand that inferences are made by using text to support their thinking.
- 5 RL 2: Determine a theme of a story, drama, or poem from details in the text, including how characters in a story or drama respond to challenges or how the speaker in a poem reflects upon a topic; summarize the text. EQ: What is theme? How do readers determine theme based on characters? What character traits, motivations, relationships, struggles, and changes will support the theme? Big Idea: Readers understand that theme can be determined by how characters respond to challenges.
- Module 2: Multi-Digit Whole Number Decimal Fraction Operations
- 5.NBT.5 Fluently multiply multi-digit whole numbers using the standard algorithm.
- 5.NBT.6 Find whole-number quotients of whole numbers with up to four-digit dividends and two-digit divisors, using strategies based on place value, the properties of operations, and/or the relationship between multiplication and division. Illustrate and explain the calculation by using equations, rectangular arrays, and/or area models.
- 5.NBT.7 Add, subtract, multiply, and divide decimals to hundredths, using concrete models or drawings and strategies based on place value, properties of operations, and/or the relationship between multiplication and division; relate the strategy to a written method and explain the reasoning used.
Social Studies:
- Our first unit will focus on the geography of the United States and Native Americans.
- 17.A.2a Compare the physical characteristics of places including soils, landforms, vegetation, wildlife, climate, natural hazards.
17.A.2b Use maps and other geographic representations and instruments to gather information about people, places and environments.
- 17.A.2a Compare the physical characteristics of places including soils, landforms, vegetation, wildlife, climate, natural hazards.
- Our first unit of science focus on the structure and properties of matter.
- 5-PS1-1. Develop a model to describe that matter is made of particles too small to be seen. [Clarification Statement: Examples of evidence could include adding air to expand a basketball, compressing air in a syringe, dissolving sugar in water, and evaporating salt water.] [Assessment Boundary: Assessment does not include the atomic-scale mechanism of evaporation and condensation or defining the unseen particles.]
- 5-PS1-2. Measure and graph quantities to provide evidence that regardless of the type of change that occurs when heating, cooling, or mixing substances, the total weight of matter is conserved. [Clarification Statement: Examples of reactions or changes could include phase changes, dissolving, and mixing that form new substances.] [Assessment Boundary: Assessment does not include distinguishing mass and weight.]
- 5-PS1-3. Make observations and measurements to identify materials based on their properties. [Clarification Statement: Examples of materials to be identified could include baking soda and other powders, metals, minerals, and liquids. Examples of properties could include color, hardness, reflectivity, electrical conductivity, thermal conductivity, response to magnetic forces, and solubility; density is not intended as an identifiable property.] [Assessment Boundary: Assessment does not include density or distinguishing mass and weight.]
- 5-PS1-4. Conduct an investigation to determine whether the mixing of two or more substances results in new substances.
- Our second writing unit will focus on writing personal narratives.
- W 5.2 Write informative/explanatory texts to examine a topic and convey ideas and information clearly.
- Students will have weekly spelling and vocabulary words.