~ Fifth Grade ~5th ~ Fifth Grade ~
 

Fifth grade is a huge transition year! 
They come in as elementary school students and leave as middle school students!
We prepare them to be independent workers and guide them as they grow. 

At Woodmen Hills Elementary School this is our 5^th Grade Curriculum:

 Science                                                      Math

Cells to Body Systems                                       Fractions, Decimals and Percents
Classifying Living Things                                 Order of Operations
Plant and Animal Growth                                 Place Value
Heredity                                                             Prime/composite
The Rock Cycle                                                 Variables
Changes to Earth’s Surface                              Graphs
Weather and the Water Cycle                          Mean, Median, Mode and Range
Earth, Moon and Beyond                                 Probability
Properties of Matter                                          Geometry (two and three dimensional)
Energy                                                                Measurement (standard and Metric)
Forces and motion                                             Area, perimeter
                                                                             Communicating Mathematical Thinking                                                                              Using a variety of strategies                                              

Language Arts                               Social Studies
Guided reading groups                                       First Americans
Compare/contrast                                               The Age of Exploration
Sequential order                                                   Colonization and Conflict
Inferences                                                             The Fight for Independence (Revolutionary War)Prediction                                                              A New Nation Grows (Industrial Revolution, War of 1812)
Drawing Conclusions                                           Slavery and Emancipation
Summarizes
Author’s purpose
Fact vs. opinion
Story elements
Using graphic organizers
Main idea/details
Understanding a variety of genres
The writing process:  Planning,  Rough draft,  Edit/revise, Final copy
Convention
Parts of Speech
Multiple paragraphs