Fifth Grade
Fifth Grade Information
Daily Schedule
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8:20 a.m.-8:30 a.m. |
Soft start |
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8:30 a.m.-8:40 a.m. |
Culture & Belonging |
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8:45 a.m.-9:25 a.m. |
Science |
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9:25 a.m.-10:25 a.m. |
Math |
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10:25 a.m.-11:00 a.m. |
"D" Block |
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11:00 a.m.-11:45 a.m. |
AMP (art, music & PE) |
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11:45 a.m.-12:30 p.m. |
Social Studies |
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12:30 p.m.-12:45 p.m. |
Math Centers |
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12:45 p.m.-1:05 p.m. |
Lunch |
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1:05 p.m.-1:25 p.m. |
Recess |
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1:25 p.m.-1:45 p.m. |
Word Study |
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1:45 p.m.-2:45 p.m. |
Literacy |
| 2:45-3:15 p.m. | Writing |
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3:15 p.m.-3:20 p.m. |
Clean-up and dismissal |
Curriculum
Reading
- Using Into Reading as our resource, our focus is on a variety of reading skills and strategies to improve reading comprehension. In class, reading consists of:
- Shared reading
- Guided reading
- Independent reading
- Reading and sharing of novels
- Reading and responding to Scholastic News articles
- Teacher read aloud
- Passion Projects
- Choice reading opportunities
- Integration of science and social studies
Writing
The focus is on the writing process using Into Reading as our resource.
- Informational Text
- Narrative Story Writing
- Persuasive Writing
- Editorial Writing
- Personal Narrative
- Research Reports
- Poetry
- Focused conventions instruction will include capitalization and punctuation, grammar and usage and sentence structure.
Math
- Adding & Subtracting Fractions & Decimals
- Multiplying & Dividing Fractions & Decimals
- Understanding Operations in Word Problems
- Algebra, Patterns, and Coordinate Graphs
- Measurement
- Geometry
Science
- Structure and Properties of Matter
- Space Systems: Stars and Solar Systems
- Earth Systems
- Matter and Energy in Organisms and Ecosystems
- Growing and Changing
Social studies
- Colonization and Implications
- Early Colonies
- American Revolution
- A New Nation
- Young Ameritowne