2. Let’s Have a Great Year!

3. Room Parent: Anne Wagner
On-line sign ups. If the sign up you would like is filled, please let her know and she will help accommodate another volunteer opportunity. Thank you!

4. Welcome to Fifth Grade! Tell me, I’ll forget Show me, I may remember
Involve me, I’ll learn

5. Dates to Remember October 25 - Book Fair
October – MAP Testing
October 25 - Book Fair
October 28 – Fall Homeroom Celebration
November 8 – Election Day/ NO SCHOOL
November 23 – Half Day
November – NO SCHOOL
December 6-9 – Parent/Teacher Conferences
(Half Days)
December 23 – Half Day
December 24 – January 2 – NO SCHOOL

6. My Goals
To give your children the academic and social skills they need to progress in fifth grade.
To provide a supportive and fun classroom environment.
To help them make new friends and discover new interests.

7. Classroom Community Our classroom is a community.
Students learn to work together
and solve problems
Our class rules are:
Be respectful and responsible.
Be organized and follow directions.
Be on time.
Be prepared

8. 6 Day Rotation Schedule

9. Areas of Study Math Social Studies Workshop Public Speaking
Character Education
Workshop
Interventions and extensions
Math Exemplars
Digital Citizenship
Monday Meetings
Ensemble

10. Grade 5 Mathematics

11. Math Constructivist Approach Hands on activities
Group and partner work
Learning through problem solving
Becoming confident in strategies
that work for each student

14. Mathematics Proficiency requires that students:
Understand and apply concepts
Compute with ease and fluency
Formulate and solve problems
Explain and communicate their reasoning
Balanced, integrated approaches that emphasize
thinking strategies help develop mathematics proficiency.

15. NCPS Math Curriculum Rich, rigorous and relevant
Aligned to our national, state and local standards
The Common Core Math Content Standards as well as the Standards for Mathematical Practice are consistent with our goal of ensuring all students acquire the skills needed to be confident, fluent and effective critical thinkers and problem solvers.

16. Standards for Mathematical Practice
1. Make sense of problems and persevere in solving them.
2. Reason abstractly and quantitatively.
3. Construct viable arguments and critique the reasoning of others.
4. Model with mathematics.
5. Use appropriate tools strategically.
6. Attend to precision.
7. Look for and make use of structure.
8. Look for and express regularity in repeated reasoning.

17. Grade 5 Domains Grade 5 Mathematics
Operations & Algebraic Thinking
Number & Operations in Base Ten
Number & Operations—Fractions
Measurement & Data
Geometry

18. Instructional Tools and Resources
Core Curriculum Units (see unit map)
Math Class Routines (for practice and fluency building)
Math Warm-Ups
Ten Minute Math
Math Labs (integrated into curriculum units)
Math Seminars (measurement, logical reasoning)
Exemplars

19. Assessments: Evidence of student learning
Classroom observations / Assessment checklists
Embedded unit activities
End-Unit assessment tasks
Unit Inventories
Computation Sets (October, December, February, April)
Trimester Benchmark Assessments (fall, winter, spring)
Performance Tasks

20. Home / School Connections
New Canaan E-Math Website
www2.newcanaan.k12.ct.us/k5math
-Here you can find Grade 5 Curriculum maps as well as math resources for parents and students
-Top Ten math apps and problem solving webs
Math Handbook (hardcover)
Unit parent letters / Unit progress report
Fact practice (multiplication facts thru 12x12 and related division facts)

21. Grade 5 Social Studies

22. Fifth Grade: A study of early US History
Units:
Colonization
Colonial Life and the Development of a New World Identity
Revolution (includes a research project)
US Government and Civics
Expansion
Current Unit Concepts:
Motivation, Organization, Survival, Change
Skills continued and strengthened: historical thinking through analyzing primary and secondary sources, reading a variety of text, note taking, research, writing, working in groups to solve problems, using and creating maps.

23. Essential Questions for our Unit Long Inquiry:
Is colonization ever justified?
Why do people form colonies?  How do people form colonies?
How does colonization change a region?

24. Let’s Have a Great Year!

25. Student Handbook

27. Tim bought a digital camera for $387. 95. He gave the sales clerk $400
Tim bought a digital camera for $ He gave the sales clerk $ ABOUT how much change did Tim get back?
$10
$20
$30 $3
Greg left 20 cookies on his counter. When he got home he saw that there were 2 ¾ cookies left. ABOUT how many cookies were eaten while Greg was at school? 3 13 17 18
Jen flew 5234 miles in one month. Mary flew 2987 miles in the same month. ABOUT how many miles did they both fly in all?
a little more than 7000 miles
a little less than 7000 miles
a little less than 8000 miles
a little more than 8000 miles
Math Warm Ups

28. Application Problem CLASS PARTY
John is in charge of buying drinks for the class party. He was given $20 to spend. He wants all three kinds of drinks listed below.
Fruit Punch $1.29/half-gallon
$1.89/gallon
Lemonade $0.98/16 ounces
$1.10/20 ounces
Soda $1.45/6-pack
$2.25/12-pack
John wants to buy the larger size whenever possible because it is cheaper. He also wants to spend as close to $20 as possible without going over $20.
Show the number, type and size of all the drinks John could buy with his money.
On the back of this page, explain how you approached this problem and arrived at this answer.
Application Problem