Grade 5 - Buffalo Public Schools
Grade 5
Olmsted #156
Miss Fiorella Mrs. Castine Miss Williams
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Behavior Policy
Students are expected to abide by the rules established at Olmsted #156 at all times. In the event that a student breaks a rule, they will receive a verbal warning. If a student breaks a rule for the second time, the behavior will be documented, and the student will receive a phone call home. A third violation will result in being sent to the office with a discipline referral slip.
Each week, students will receive a weekly report that tracks behavior, incomplete assignments, tests, and other projects. These reports are due back to school the following school day signed by a parent or guardian.
E.L.A.
Grading Policy:
Tests/writing---------------------------------50%
Spelling---------------------------------------25%
Must Do Activities/homework------------15%
Preparedness/participation------------------5%
Must Do Activities:
Each week students will be required to complete a variety of must do activities. This includes, but is not limited to, various story maps, vocabulary activities, spelling activities, spelling contracts and/or spelling packets, literacy practice, grammar practice, fluency practice, writing assignments, journaling etc.. Students will be required to complete this work for homework if it is not completed in school.
Test and Quiz Policy
All tests and quizzes will be announced at least two days in advance. Students will take a comprehension test weekly upon completion of each reading story in the anthology. Also, students will be required to take theme tests at the end of each reading theme. These theme tests are based on the focus skills taught in the theme, grammar, and vocabulary knowledge. Also, students will take holistic tests several times throughout the year. Lastly, students will take a weekly spelling test.
Dibels
Dibels is a reading fluency test that assesses how many words per minute students can read. Fluency in reading means that a student can read with the correct speed and intonation. Students are tested periodically throughout the year to monitor their progress. Also, there are three benchmarks students must meet. These include:
Beginning of the year benchmark: 104 w.p.m.(words per minute)
Middle of the year benchmark: 115 w.p.m
End of the year benchmark: 124 w.p.m.
In the event that a student does not meet the Dibels benchmark at the beginning of the year, the student will be placed in the Voyager Program, for students who test strategic, or the Direct Instruction Program, for students who test intensive.
Expectations
Students are expected to come to class daily with appropriate materials. This includes a notebook, a pencil, E.L.A. workbook, and the reading anthology. Students are expected to arrive on time, with all of their assignments, and are expected to abide by all rules at all times. Failure to do so will result in the above stated consequences.
Reading Logs
Students will be required to read for 20 minutes per night (Monday – Thursday).
Students can read books, magazines, newspapers, comics, or anything in print form that is of interest to the students. Each night students will fill out their reading log and get it signed by a parent or guardian, and will be required to return it to school each Friday.
Also, each student is required to read 25 chapter books throughout the year. This count can include summer reading books. Broken down, each student should read about 5 books in the summer and then 5 more books each quarter of the school year. Upon completion of each book, students will record the book title and author on a separate log. These logs will be collected quarterly.
Course Outline:
6 Themes-5 stories per theme
? Theme 1: “Look Inside”
-Students will learn about young people who discover their strengths and abilities.
o The Hot and Cold Summer by Johanna Hurwitz
Focus Skill: Prefixes, Suffixes, and Roots
o Sees Behind Trees by Michael Dorris
Focus Skill: Narrative Elements
o Yang the Third and Her Impossible Family by Lensey Namioka
Focus Skill: Prefixes, Suffixes, and Roots
o Dear Mrs. Parks by Rosa Parks
Focus Skill: Make Judgments
o Elena by Diane Stanley
Focus Skill: Narrative Elements
? Theme 2: “Team Work”
-Students will learn about the importance of working together
o We’ll Never Forget You, Roberto Clemente by Trudie Engel
Focus Skill: Draw Conclusions
o Folk Tales from Asia by Lynette Dyer Vuong
Focus Skill: Summarize and Paraphrase
o Iditarod Dream by Ted Wood
Focus Skill: Draw Conclusions
o Woodsong by Gary Paulsen
Focus Skill: Summarize and Paraphrase
o Island of the Blue Dolphins by Scott O’Dell
Focus Skill: Narrative Elements
? Theme 3: “A Changing Planet”
-Students will read about nature and the earth.
o Everglades by Jean Craighead George
Focus Skill: Prefixes, Suffixes, and Roots
o Summer of Fire by Patricia Lauber
Focus Skill: Graphic Aids
o Oceans by Seymour Simon
Focus Skill: Text Structure: Main Ideas and Details
o Seeing Earth from Space by Patricia Lauber
Focus Skill: Graphic Aids
o The Case of the Flying Saucer People by Seymour Simon
Focus Skill: Text Structure: Main Ideas and Details
? Theme 4: “Express Yourself”
-Students will learn about different forms of
creativity.
o Hattie’s Birthday Box by Anne Rockwell
Focus Skill: Word Relationships
o William Shakespeare and the Globe by Aliki
Focus Skill: Fact and Opinion
o The World of William Joyce Scrapbook by William Joyce
Focus Skill: Word Relationships
o Satchmo’s Blues by Alan Schroeder
Focus Skill: Fact and Opinion
o Evelyn Cisneros: Prima Ballerina by Charnan Simon
Focus Skill: Text Structure: Main Idea and Details
? Theme 5: “School Rules”
-Students will learn about other students and their school experience. Students will see how connections are made throughout the community.
o Off and Running by Gary Soto
Focus Skill: Text Structure: Compare and Contrast
o Little by Little by Jean Little
Focus Skill: Author’s Purpose and Perspective
o Dear Mr. Henshaw by Beverly Cleary
Focus Skill: Text Structure: Compare and Contrast
o Frindle by Andrew Clements
Focus Skill: Author’s Purpose and Perspective
o The Fun They Had by Isaac Asimov
Focus Skill: Draw Conclusions
? Theme 6: “American Adventure”
-Students will read about adventures and historical figures that are both fictional and
non-fictional.
o Across the Wide Dark Sea by Jean Van Leeuwen
Focus Skill: Connotation/Denotation
o Name this American by Hannah Reinmuth
Focus Skill: Cause and Effect
o What’s the Big Idea, Ben Franklin by Jean Fritz
Focus Skill: Connotation/Denotation
o Lewis and Clark by R. Conrad Stein
Focus Skill: Cause and Effect
o Black Frontiers by Lillian Schissel
Focus Skill: Summarize and Paraphrase
English Language Arts Standards: Grade 5
Standard 1: Language for Information and Understanding
Students will listen, speak, read, and write for information and understanding. As listeners and readers, students will collect data, facts, and ideas; discover relationships, concepts, and generalizations; and use knowledge generated from oral, written, and electronically produced texts. As speakers and writers, they will use oral and written language that follows the accepted conventions of the English language to acquire, interpret, apply, and transmit information.
Standard 2: Language for Literary Response and Expression
Students will read and listen to oral, written, and electronically produced texts and performances from American and world literature; relate texts and performances to their own lives; and develop an understanding of the diverse social, historical, and cultural dimensions the texts and performances represent. As speakers and writers, students will use oral and written language that follows the accepted conventions of the English language for self-expression and artistic creation.
Standard 3: Language for Critical Analysis and Evaluation
Students will listen, speak, read, and write for critical analysis and evaluation. As listeners and readers, students will analyze experiences, ideas, information, and issues presented by others using a variety of established criteria. As speakers and writers, they will use oral and written
language that follows the accepted conventions of the English language to present, from a variety of perspectives, their opinions and judgments on experiences, ideas, information and issues.
Standard 4: Language for Social Interaction
Students will listen, speak, read, and write for social interaction. Students will use oral and written language that follows the accepted conventions of the English language for effective social communication with a wide variety of people. As readers and listeners, they will use the social communications of others to enrich their understanding of people and their views.
Grade 5 Junior Great Books
In conjunction with Harcourt skills, we will be implementing Junior Great Book skills with an emphasis on writing, criticial thinking and metacognition.
Book 1
Stage 1: Beginning Interpretation: Students identify their own ideas about each story and practice communicating these ideas.
Unit 1: The No-Guitar Blues
Unit 2: Kaddo’s Wall
Unit 3: Turquoise Horse
Stage: 2: Seeing Alternatives: By listening to and considering their classmates ideas, students learn that an interpretative question can have more than one answer.
Unit 4: A Game of Catch
Unit 5: Oliver Hyde’s Dishcloth Concert
Unit 6: The Hundred-Dollar Bill
Stage 3: Going Deeper: Students take a closer look at each story, examining evidence and classmates’ ideas in more depth.
Unit 7: The Invisible Child
Unit 8: In the Time of the Drums
Unit 9: Learning the Game
Unit 10: The Bat-Poet
Stage 4: Considering Interpretations: Students begin to explore multiple interpretatins of a story and consider their classmates’ ideas as they develop their own conclusions.
Unit 1: Charles
Unit 2: A Bad Road For Cats
Unit 3: Podhu and Aruwa
Stage 5: Exploring Ideas: Students support their answers to interpretive questions with evidence from the story, referring to the ideas of others.
Unit 4: Lenny’s Red-Letter Day
Unit 5: Barbie
Unit 6: Ghost Cat
Stage 6: Putting the Puzzle Together : Students explore interpretations of a story thoroughly and specifically, establishing independent thinking and discussion skills.
Unit 7: Lucky Boy
Unit 8: Maurice’s Room
Unit 9: The Prince and the Goose Girl
Unit 10: The Bermuda Triangle
Grade 5 Mathematics
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Grading Policy
Homework: 10%
Participation: 10%
Quizzes: 35%
Tests: 45%
Homework Policy
All students will begin each quarter with a 100% for their homework grade. Students are expected to turn in their homework the day it is due. Any missing homework assignments will result in a deduction of 3 points from the homework grade. Late assignments will not be accepted. In the event that a student is absent, the student will have as many days as they were absent to make up the homework assignment(s).
Test and Quiz Policy
All tests and quizzes will be announced at least two days in advance.
Projects
Projects will be announced in class. Projects will count as a test grade.
Unit 1: Number Puzzles and Multiple Towers
Skills: Multiplication & Division
Unit 2: Thousands of Miles, Thousands of Seats
Skills: Addition, Subtraction & Number System
Unit 3: What’s the Portion ?
Skills: Fractions & Percents
Unit 4: Measuring Polygons
Skills: Measurement and Geometry
Unit 5: Decimals on Grids and Number Lines
Skills: Decimals, Fractions & Percents
Unit 6: How Many People? How Many Teams?
Skills: Multiplication & Division
Unit 7: Growth Patterns
Skills: Patterns, Functions & Change
Unit 8: How Long Can You Stand On One Foot
Skills: Data Analysis and Probability
Unit 9: Prisms & Pyramids
Skills: 3-D Geometry & Measurement
5th Grade Science
Grading Policy:
Homework: 10%
Tests: 45%
Quizzes/Labs: 35%
Participation: 10%
Classroom Expectations
Be prepared with both your assignments and supplies
Be respectful of others and their property
Be cooperative with the adults in authority
5th Grade Science Curriculum
Fifth grade science is a blend of Life Science, Earth Science, Physical Science, and Health. It is a spiral curriculum, building on learning acquired in the fourth grade. Students are introduced to the Scientific Method and prepared for the laboratory procedures that will serve them throughout their education.
Life Science:
Classification Systems and Dichotomy
Animal Classification
Biomes and Ecosystems
Plant and Animal Adaptations
Earth Science:
Weather
Weathering and Erosion
Energy Resources, Fossil Fuel Formation
Solar System
Space Exploration
Pollution and Conservation
Physical Science:
Forces and Motion
Electricity and Magnetism
Energy Formation, Electrical Production
Classifying Matter and Chemistry
Mixtures and Solutions
Changes in Matter
Scientific Method
Health:
Respiratory System
Excretory System
Communicable and Non-communicable Disease
Nutrition and a Healthy Lifestyle
5th Grade Social Studies
Grading Policy
Homework: 10 %
Participation: 10%
Quizzes: 35%
Tests: 45 %
Description of the Class:
We will be using the Scott Foresman: United States Textbook for Social Studies. Your child will be learn about the geographic, economic, and social/cultural understandings related to the United States, Canada and nations in Latin America today. The units below are what we will be discussing throughout the year.
Review: Geography & Mapping Skills
Overview: American People, American Land
Unit 1: Early Life East and West
Native Americans
Unit 2: Connections Across Continents
European Explorers
Unit 3: Colonial Life in North America
Colonies, Jobs, Clothing
Unit 4: The American Revolution
Unit 5: Life in a New Nation
Unit 6: A Growing Nation
Unit 7: War Divides the Nation
Unit 8: Expansion & Change
Unit 9: United States & the World
Homework Policy
All students begin each quarter with a 100% for their homework grade. Students are expected to turn in homework the day it is due. Each day the assignment is late it is 3 points deduction off the homework grade. In the event the student is absent, the student will have as many days as they were absent to make up the homework assignment(s). Homework will mainly be given Monday-Thursday.
Test & Quiz Policy
All Tests & Quizzes will be announced at least two days in advance & normally a review sheet will be given to prepare for the quiz/test.
Projects
Projects will be announced in class and a rubric will be provided for each project given so students know expectations. Projects will count as a test grade.
Behavior Policy
Students are expected to follow the rules established at Olmsted #56 at all times. If a student breaks a rule, they receive a verbal warning. If they break the rule a second time, the behavior will be documented, and the student will receive a phone call home. If there is a third warning the student will be sent to the office with a discipline referral slip.
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