| Math |
| Science |
| History/ Geography |
| Comprehension Strategy |
| Poetry |
| CK Literature |
| Sayings & Phrases |
| Spelling |
| Writing & Grammar Focus |
| August | September | October | November | December | January | February | March | April | May |
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| Chap. 1 - Place Value, Adding & Subtracting (Chapters 1-3 run from the first of August to late October) |
Chap. 2 - Multiplying Whole Numbers & Decimals | Chap. 3 - Dividing w/ One-Digit Divisors | Chap. 4 - Dividing with Two-Digit Divisors (Chapters 4-6 run from November to late January) |
Chap. 5 - Data, Graphs, and Probablity | Chap. 6 - Geometry | Chap. 7 - Fraction Concepts (Chapters 7-9 run from February to mid-March) |
Chap. 8 - Fraction Operations and Chap. 9 - Measurement Chap. 10 - Measuring Solids (Chapters 10-12 run from mid-March to end of May) |
Chap. 11 - Ratio, Proportion, and Percents | Chap. 12 - Algebra |
| Scientific Method | Chemistry Part I | Chemistry Part II and Classification (This unit runs through mid January because of winter break) |
Chemistry Part II and Classification | Chemistry Part II and Classification | Chemistry Part II and Classification Endocrine System (Endocrine System runs through mid-February) |
Endocrine System Cells | Cells | Plants | Plants - through mid May |
| World Lakes (all units in social studies have geography included in the form of map reading, location of subjects being taught and other pertinent info.) |
Native Americans - Cultures and Clashes Westward Expansion before and after the Civil War |
Civil War - Causes, Conflicts, Consequences (This unit runs through mid January because of winter break) |
Civil War | Civil War | Civil War Mayas, Aztecs, Incas - Meso - American Civilizations (M,A,I run through mid-February) |
Mayas, Aztecs, Incas Renaissance | Renaissance | Reformation and Exploration | Japan and Russia for all classes from mid-May to end of year |
| Theme 1 - Making Connections | Theme 2 - Inference Theme 3 - Ask Questions |
Theme 4 - What is Sound? (mid-Oct.) - Locates and paraphrases the key/main ideas and supporting details in fiction and non- fiction. Theme 5 - Let Freedom Ring - Reads fluently to accommodate purpose. Theme 4 - Determine importance Theme 5 - Monitor Understanding |
Theme 6 - Balancing Act (mid-Nov.) - Summarizing fiction and non-fiction. - Identifies sequential order in fiction/non- fiction. Theme 7 - Ocean Life - Reads fluently to accommodate purpose. Theme 6 - Synthesize Theme 7 - Create Images |
Theme 8 - Bottom of the Deep Blue Sea (mid-Dec.) - Summarizing fiction and non-fiction. - Identifies sequential order in fiction/non- fiction. - Reads fluently to accommodate purpose. Theme 8 - Use Fix-up Strategies |
Theme 9 - Exploring the West (mid-Jan.) - Compares and contrasts different texts with similar themes and ideas. Theme 10 - Settling The West - Summarizing fiction and non-fiction. - Identifies sequential order in fiction/non- fiction. - Reads fluently to accommodate purpose Theme 9 - Making Connections: Compare/Contrast Information Theme 10 - Infer: Author's Purpose |
Theme 11 - The Science of Sports - Locates and paraphrases the key/main ideas and supporting details in fiction and non- fiction. Theme 11 - Determine Importanct - Rank Information |
Theme 12 - Communication Revolution (mid-April) - Makes predictions and draws conclusions using examples from text in various genres. Theme 12 - Monitor Understanding - Reflect on Purpose |
Theme 13 - Making Life Easier - Summarizing fiction and non-fiction. - Identifies sequential order in fiction/non- fiction. Theme 13 - Synthesize - Create a Summary Theme 14 - Nature's Building Blocks - Summarizing fiction and non-fiction. - Identifies sequential order in fiction/non- fiction. |
Theme 15 - Body Systems - Summarizing fiction and non-fiction. - Identifies sequential order in fiction/non- fiction. Theme 15 - Use Fix-It Strategies - Read On Theme 16 - Pulse of Life - Read On as a Fix-up Strategy - Review of Creating Viduals - Stress words with special type treatment |
| The Rigby Theme Units incorporate poetry throughout most of their themes. We further deal with poetry though out CK content. Focus: Common terms to discuss and evaluate poems. Acrostic |
Focus: Cinquain | Focus: Rhyming couplets | Focus: Haiku | Focus: Diamante | Focus: Free verse | Focus: use of alliteration | Focus: use of personaification | ||
| Tom Sawyer - read aloud A Midsummer Night's Dream is taught in music whenever the class has that special. |
Myths and Legends, Tall Tales and an excerpt from Little House on the Priarie are worked into our Native American Unit and westward expansion unit. |
Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass fits into our Civil War unit. Don Quixote - read aloud |
Sherlock Holmes - read aloud | Secret Garden - either listened to on tape or show the video. | |||||
| Listed are our sayings and phrases that are CK Literature requirements. Months are not assigned as they are incorporated throughout the year whenever possible. | Phrases: - Birthday suit - Bite the hand that feeds you - Chip on your shoulder - Count your blessings - Eat crow - Eleventh hou - Eureka! |
Phrases: - Every cloud has a silver lining - Few and far between - Forty winks - The grass is always greener - To kill two birds with one stone |
Phrases: - Lock, stock and barrel - Make a mountain out of a molehill - A miss is as good as a mile -It's never too late to mend - Out of the frying pan and into the fire |
Phrases: - A penny saved is a penny earned - Read between the lines - Sit on the fence - Steal his/her thunder - Take the bull by the horns |
Phrases: - Till the cows come home - Time heals all wounds - Tom, Dick and Harry - Vice versa - A watched pot never boils - Well begun is half done - What will be will be |
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| Words Their Way is the adopted spelling program for 5th grade. Assessment at the first of the year dictates what level students are placed. Most students fall in Syllables and Affixes or Derivational. | |||||||||
| Baseline testing Writing for a variety of purposes are the state standards and as such we cover various forms of writing throughout the year. Months are not assigned. Grammar is dealt with throughout all writing but the listed grammar is associated with the Rigby program. |
Paragraph writing Focus: descriptive writing - nouns and proper nouns - simple and compound sentences/predicates - initial consanant and short vowel review - consonant blends sn- and st - long vowel review |
5 paragraph expostiory essays are our main standard. Focus: compare/ contrast - verbs - proper, possessive, singular and plural nouns - synonyms and antonyms - contractions - subject-verb agreement - sentence combining - contractions |
Focus: narrative/ stories - helping, linking, and main verbs - inflected endings -ed, -ing, -es |
Focus: Personal and Business Letters - regular and irregular verbs |
Focus: 5 paragraph essays - in regards to preparing for CSAPs. - subject, object and possessive pronouns - singular and plural pronouns - prefixes: un-, non-, in-, dis-, anti-, co-, fore-, re-, pre-, il-, ir-, inter-, mid-, post-, and semi- |
Focus: Persuasive essays - adjectives: comparative and superlative - adjectives: common and proper - articles |
Focus: Research papers and poetry - adverbs: regular and special - prepositions - suffixes: -ful, -able, -less, -ist, -ish, -ness, -tion, -sion, -ly, -fully |
Focus: Continuation of research papers and poetry for National Poetry Month - prepositions and prepositional phrases - conjunctions: coordinate, subordinate, independent and dependent clauses - compound words |
- homophones - irregular verbs - consonant doubling |
