Final curriculum night 2013

5th Grade

2013 Curriculum Night May 9, 2013

April 9th – 11th, 2014

Williamsburg

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• 2 payment dates(October & February)

• All chaperones

must be on the

CMS approved

volunteer list.

2012 – 2013 School Year Introduced

NC Common Core – Language Arts

NC Common Core - Mathematics

5th Grade

Language Arts5th Grade

NC Common Core – Language Arts• In grade five, students will read a wide range of

literature, including stories, plays, and poems. Additionally, they will read to learn information about history, the world, science, and other areas.

Literature Informational Text

NC Common Core Language Arts - Literature

• Determine theme

Literary

Themes

Equality

Perseverance

Choices

NC Common Core Language Arts - Literature

• Summarize text

Equality

Perseverance

Choices

NC Common Core Language Arts - Literature

• Determine influence of speaker on text

Equality

Perseverance

Choices

NC Common Core Language Arts - Informational

• Quote text

Equality

Perseverance

Choices

Be the change you want to

see in the world.

Mahatma Gandhi

NC Common Core Language Arts - Informational

• Connect ideas from multiple sources

Equality

Perseverance

Choices

Differentiation in Language Arts

• Students may be placed in

different novels

• Students may be in the same

novel, but have different

contracts.

• Small group instruction

• Small group remediation

Reading

1. An independent novel

- chosen for enjoyment

2. A novel you are reading

aloud to your child.

Why????

• Your child should be engaged in

two novels at all times

NC Common Core Language Arts - Writing

• Narrative, opinion, and informational

Equality

Perseverance

Choices

NC Common Core Language Arts - Grammar

• Spelling, punctuation, and parts of speech

Equality

Perseverancepre

Choices

verb

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Informational Text Resources

Time For Kids

National Geographic Pathfinder

Informational Text Resources

NC Common Core Mathematics

• Order of operations

• Patterns in powers of 10

• Write expressions to solve

real world problems

• Operations and Algebraic Thinking

NC Common Core Mathematics

• Comparing decimals

• Place value

• Adding and subtracting

whole numbers

• Multiplying and dividing

whole numbers

• Number and Operation in Base Ten

NC Common Core Mathematics

• Fraction sense

• Adding and subtracting

with unlike denominators

• Fractions

• Multiplying fractions

• Dividing unit fractions

and whole numbers

NC Common Core Mathematics

• Coordinate graphing

• Volume

• Measurement conversions

• Measurement and Data

NC Common Core Mathematics

• Quadrilateral classification

• Geometry

Third Grade

Science- Fifth Grade

NC ESSENTIAL STANDARDS

Forces and Motion

Understand force, motion and the relationship between them.

Key Terms: Gravity, Friction, Speed, Position, Motion, Force, Mass, Inertia, Acceleration, Momentum

NC ESSENTIAL STANDARDS Matter: Properties and Change

Key Terms: evaporation, condensation, precipitation, matter, energy, liquid, solid, gas, chemical change, physical change

Understand the interactions of matter and energy and the changes that occur.

NC ESSENTIAL STANDARDS

Structures and Functions of Living Organisms

Understand how structures and systems of organisms (to include the human body) perform functions necessary for life.

Systems: Nervous, Respiratory, Muscular, Skeletal, Circulatory, Cardiovascular, Digestive

NC ESSENTIAL STANDARDSEcosystems

Understand the interdependence of plants and animals with their ecosystem.

Key Terms: ecosystem, interdependence, producer, consumer, decomposer, food chain, food web, biome

NC ESSENTIAL STANDARDS

Energy: Conservation and Transfer

Key Terms: convection, conduction, heat transfer, radiation, molecule, atom, electromagnetic waves, thermal energy, temperature,

Explain how the properties of some materials change as a result of heating and cooling.

NC ESSENTIAL STANDARDS

Earth Systems, Structures

and Processes

Understand weather patterns and phenomena, making connections to the weather in a particular place and time.

Key Terms: cold/warm fronts, cirrus clouds, cumulus clouds, stratus clouds, barometer, El Nino, Gulf Stream, hurricane, Jet Stream

NC ESSENTIAL STANDARDS

Evolution and Genetics

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Understand why organisms differ from or are similar to their parents based on the characteristics of the organism.

Key Terms: genetics, heredity, traits, genes, DNA, inherit

Fifth Grade Social Studies!

NC ESSENTIAL STANDARDS – Social Studies• History: Analyzing the chronology of key events in the

United States

From first explorers Through Reconstruction

NC ESSENTIAL STANDARDS – Social Studies• Understand how human activity has and continues to shape

the United States

NC ESSENTIAL STANDARDS – Social Studies

•Understand how a market economy impacts life in the United States

•Understand that personal choices result in benefits or consequences

NC ESSENTIAL STANDARDS – Social Studies

•Understand the development, structure, and function of government in the United States

•Analyze life in a democratic republic through rights and responsibilities of citizens

NC ESSENTIAL STANDARDS – Social Studies

• Understand how increased diversity resulted from migration, settlement patterns, and economic development in the United States

5th Grade Study Skills

5th Grade Study Skills

How Your Child Can PrepareFor A Test or Quiz ?

1. Read assigned text/handout

2. Organize info in their spiral notebook- See examples

3. Complete graphic organizers

4. Take notes

5th Grade Study Skills

5th Grade Study Skills

It is our expectation that our students spend about 60 minutes nightly on homework.

Research shows that homework reinforces, extends, and prepares students for classroom learning.

Homework……Help!!!!

Helpful Homework TipsFor Parents

1. Plan a daily homework time.2. Choose a quiet place and provide supplies for

your child to use while studying.3. Be ready to assist him or her with difficult

problems or words. ***This is not the time to drop your child cold

turkey.

4 Be available to check over completed assignments for understanding and accuracy.

5 Assist your child in studying for tests by reviewing vocabulary, notes and asking questions about the content.

5th Grade Study Skills

Projects and Research

A. Explorer projectsB. Museums In The SchoolsC. Science projectsD. Williamsburg project

• Projects are completed as in-school assignments

5th Grade Study Skills

• Summer Math

• Assignment-

• Master

• Multiplication

• Facts

5th Grade Study Skills

Practice Tips

1. Create Flash Cards

2. Timed Test

3. Call Out Math Facts While Traveling

4. Play Multiplication Board Games

5. Use The On-line Websites

5th Grade Study Skills

Summer Reading Assignment

Rising 5th grade students are required to choose one of the following books for their summer reading.

5th Grade Study Skills

Number The Starsby Lois Lowry

5th Grade Study Skills

Number the Stars tells the tale of Annemarie Johansen, a young girl living in Denmark during World War II. The book opens in 1943, three years after German soldiers first arrived to occupy the small country. After three years of living uneasily with this occupying force, the gloves finally come off as the German Nazis begin their campaign to "relocate" all the Jews of Denmark. The Danish Resistance, made up of ordinary citizens like the Johansen family, works steadily to smuggle the Jews out of Denmark and over the sea to nearby Sweden. Annemarie, only ten years old, must find courage and maturity beyond her years within herself in order to help her best friend, Ellen Rosen, escape from the Nazis.

The Hobbitby J.R.R Tolkien

5th Grade Study Skills

Bilbo Baggins begins as a cautious and conservative hobbit, well respected and considered a pillar of the hobbit community. When he reluctantly sets out on a quest to recover the stolen treasure of a band of dwarves, he encounters dangers of all descriptions. His adventures, which figure prominently in a prophecy of the dwarves, are like stepping stones on the inner journey Biblo must take to find his courage. Bilbo faces trials which again and again force him to look deep inside himself for the strength and resourcefulness he needs to complete the task expected of him.

The Pinballs

by Betsy Byars

5th Grade Study Skills

Carlie, Harvey and Thomas J., three foster children, have been taken in by the Masons who have had many other foster children in the past. It's Carlie who compares the children to pinballs, controlled by external forces, and at the mercy of fate. Carlie is tough; she has been abused by her step-fathers and is convinced that people are not to be trusted. The master of insult, she maintains her tough exterior.Harvey has two broken legs, having been run over by an alcoholic father after being abandoned by his mother. He is convinced that his father has kept his mother from communicating with him since she ran away to find herself in a commune. Thomas J was also abandoned; he was found as a toddler by elderly twin sisters whose minimal love and care for him has ended when both of them are hospitalized with broken hips. He is inarticulate and overly anxious to please. The Masons provide a supportive environment in which the children learn to care for each other and begin to experience love and trust. This is a believable, funny and touching novel.

Tuck Everlastingby Natalie Babbitt

5th Grade Study Skills

Tuck Everlasting is the story of a girl named Winnie and a family whom she meets, the Tucks. The Tucks have a secret: they're immortal. They drank water from a spring that was actually a fountain of youth. Until the end of time, they will stay that way. Winnie falls in love with one of the Tucks, Jesse, a "17"-year-old boy who shares the same feelings for her. Scared of death, Winnie must choose between being immortal and being with Jesse or following the circle of life and dying someday. The Tucks try to teach her how she shouldn't fear death, how they would give anything to die. It teaches the importance and understanding of life and death. It shows that you should not fear death, but to fear an unlived life.

The One and Only Ivanby Katherine Applegate

5th Grade Study Skills

Ivan is an easygoing gorilla. Living at the Exit 8 Big Top Mall and Video Arcade, he has grown accustomed to humans watching him through the glass walls of his domain. He rarely misses his life in the jungle. In fact, he hardly ever thinks about it at all.Instead, Ivan thinks about TV shows he's seen and about his friends Stella, an elderly elephant, and Bob, a stray dog. But mostly Ivan thinks about art and how to capture the taste of a mango or the sound of leaves with color and a well-placed line.Then he meets Ruby, a baby elephant taken from her family, and she makes Ivan see their home—and his own art—through new eyes. When Ruby arrives, change comes with her, and it's up to Ivan to make it a change for the better.

Storm Breakerby Anthony Horowitz

Alex Rider thinks he is a normal school boy, until his uncle is killed. He discovers that his uncle was actually spy on a mission, when he was killed. Alex is recruited by Alan Blunt to continue the mission. He is sent to Cornwall to investigate a new computer system, which Darrius Sayle has created. He plans to give the new computer systems to every school in the country, but Mr. Blunt has other ideas and Alex must find out what it is.

5th Grade Study Skills

Summer Reading Assessment

Graphic Organizer

Seminar

Quiz

5th Grade Study Skills

5th Grade Website

j.mp/pse5