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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