1. Welcome to 5th Grade Curriculum Night
Pogue

2. Attendance It is very important that your child be at school everyday.
If your child has a fever or has been vomiting then they need to stay home.
Be on time - Class starts at 9:00 am (10:00 on Wednesdays)
Classroom doors open 15 minutes before
School doors open for breakfast at 8:30
Flitcroft

3. Common Core Standards
Academic Standards in Math and English/Language Arts that have been adopted by 45 out of 50 states across the country
These standards provide consistency and clarity for students
They are relevant to the real world and challenging to give students the skills and knowledge for success in college and careers
Judd

4. The Forward Curriculum
It is common core aligned, and offers more digital resources for teachers.
This past summer, teachers around the district collaborated to create detailed curriculum maps specifically supporting our David Douglas students.
Blair

5. Most students should expect to receive 3s and 4s
5 : Exemplary- above grade level
4: Proficient- at grade level
3: Approaching Proficient- occasionally meets grade level standards; beginning to grasp and apply key processes and skills for their grade level, but produces work that contains errors
2: Not Yet Proficient-not meeting grade level standards and is working one or more years below grade level
1: Insufficient Evidence Towards Standard-missing assignments, and/or length of time in school (frequent absences)
X: Not yet assessed
Sager

6. Grades Throughout the Year
Conferences will be a time to go over your student’s testing data, and discuss
goals to work on before the report
card.
Report cards are sent out 2 times in
the year (January and June).
Grades ideally should go up throughout the year. Content that has been taught earlier in the year, will be reviewed before assessment.
Blair

7. State Assessment
Smarter Balanced Assessments in math and language arts will take place in April and May.
The test is aligned to the Common Core standards.
Spooner

8. State Assessment
5th grade will take the OAKS science assessment in the early spring.
The test will assess their knowledge of the science taught in grades 3, 4 and 5.
5th grade content instruction will focus on science after finishing the Biztown economics unit. We will return to social studies later in the spring.
Spooner

9. Academic Focal Points: Language Arts
Close Reading Strategies
Novel Study
Analyzing Multiple Texts/Points Of View
Challenging Informational Text
Variety Of Literary Genres
Systematic Vocabulary Practice
Fluency and Accuracy
Spooner

10. Academic Focal Points: Language Arts
Narrative, Persuasive and Expository Writing Projects.
Revising
Editing
Writing Projects Will Connect With Science and Social Studies Lessons.
Major Focus On Composing At The Keyboard With District Google Docs Account.
Spooner

11. Academic Focal Points: Math
Multiplication And Division Of Whole Numbers, Decimals and Fractions
Measuring Volume
Converting Measurements: feet to miles, meters to kilometers
Classifying 2 Dimensional Polygons-Quadrilaterals And Triangles
Analyzing, Graphing Coordinate Plane
Graphing Line Plots
Order Of Operations; Writing Numerical Expressions
Spooner

12. Academic Focal Points: Science And Social Studies
Health: Great Body Shop
Life and Earth Science: 3 Zenger Farm Field Trips
Physical Science: Forces and Energy
Scientific Inquiry Projects
Economics/Personal Finance: Biztown!
Geography Skills
Colonial-Revolutionary War US History
US Constitution/Government
Spooner

13. Thank you for coming and supporting your child
Thank you for coming and supporting your child. I look forward to an amazing school year together.
Mrs. White Room 20
Pogue