1. WELCOME PARENTS! Fifth Grade Curriculum Night September 15, 2016
Our mission: To challenge and prepare all students for future success.

2. Welcome to Fifth Grade!
There will be End of Grade Testing in English Language Arts, Math, Science
EOGs scheduled within the last 10 days of school (window opens May 24th - specific dates TBD)
3 days of testing
RHASE
Reproductive Health and Safety Education (formerly FLEBHS)
Will be taught as part of Body Systems unit in Health or Science in second semester (see link on wiki)
Grading Policy
Health
Grades will be classified into two categories: Formal 60%, Informal 40%
Formative assessments will count as one formal grade. These may or may not be announced.
Summative assessments will count as two formal grades. These will be announced.
Scholastic News will be informal.
Homework will be a quarterly informal average that will figure into each content area.

3. Homework
Given nightly in Math and Science, weekly reading minutes, time management
Review notes taken in class
Planner signed daily by teacher! Parent must sign weekly for 150 minutes of Reading outside of school.
Communication
Black Folders, newsletters, graded papers, school / PTA / Community communication – it’s a good idea to match work to Power School.
Sign and return those indicated, this is the proof I need of your child’s work for their portfolio
and . If you don’t check , please ask us to communicate with you another way.
for general info, calendar, long term projects, etc.
PowerSchool (login information coming home soon - week of the 27th is mid-quarter)

4. Rules and Procedures
School-wide discipline plan
Recurring issues are noted in planner, as is missing homework.
Missing homework is one demerit per assignment; this includes not having a book to read.
Token economy (“Bobcat Bucks”) / Trade Day
Volunteer Opportunities
Register on the CMS website to volunteer- even classroom
Lunch procedures – only your child outside

5. Personalized Learning
Bain’s Personalized Learning Vision is to utilize a Personalized Learning Philosophy to enhance our educational framework allowing us to encompass the whole child, increasing student ownership, striving for mastery learning, while implementing paces, playlists and pathways.
Whole Child - Morning Meetings, Student Choice, Flexible Seating, Active Classrooms, Inquiry & Interest Learning
Student Ownership - Goal Setting, Reflection, Self-Evaluation, Self-Motivation, Collaboration, Social Awareness
Mastery Learning - Data, Data Trackers, Growth Oriented, Rigorous, Authentic Tasks, Critical Reflection
Paces, Playlists & Pathways - Standards Driven, Action Plan, Meaningful Purpose

6. English Language Arts - Reading
Balanced Literacy Units / Themes
Interactive read alouds for reading, writing, and vocabulary across content areas.
Scholastic News for non-fiction.
Monthly current event for non-fiction reading and writing.
Selecting “just right” books.
Focus on independent daily reading – sustained quality reading.
Conferencing with students about skills, goals, etc.

7. English Language Arts - Grammar
Students will demonstrate command of the conventions of Standard English language when writing or speaking.
Students will use Knowledge of Language and its conventions when writing, speaking, reading, or listening by:
Expanding, combining, and reducing sentences for meaning
Compare and Contrast the varieties of English used in stories, dramas, or poems
Will be demonstrated through the use of:
Greek/Latin Roots and Grammar Skills Practice

8. English Language Arts - Vocabulary
Students will determine of clarify the meaning of unknown and multiple-meaning words and phrases based on grade 5 reading and content .
Vocabulary comes from weekly interactive read alouds and specific content areas.
Figurative Language (similes and metaphors)
Common idioms, adages, and proverbs
Use the relationship between particular words to better understand each of the words (synonyms, antonyms, homographs)
Use Domain specific words and phrases, including those that signal contrast, addition, and other logical relationships (however, although, nevertheless, similarly, moreover, in addition)
One-third of the Reading EOG is Vocabulary based

9. English Language Arts - Writing
Write arguments to support a position using valid reasoning and sufficient evidence.
Write informative/explanatory texts to examine and explain complex information.
USE THE BATS STRATEGY:
Borrow words from the text.
Answer the questions using
Text evidence to
Support your answer.
Write narratives to develop real or imagined experiences or events.

10. Math – Students will be able to…..
Mathematical Practices
Use Mathematical Conversation to:
Make sense of problems and persevere in solving them.
Reason abstractly and quantitatively.
Construct viable arguments and critique the reasoning of others.
Model with mathematics.
Use appropriate tools strategically.

11. Math – use mathematical practices to….
Operations and Algebraic Thinking
• Write and interpret numerical expressions.
• Analyze patterns and relationships.
Number and Operations in Base Ten
• Understand the place value system.
• Perform operations with multi-digit whole numbers and with decimals to hundredths
Number and Operations—Fractions
• Use equivalent fractions as a strategy to add and subtract fractions.
• Apply and extend previous understandings of multiplication and division to multiply and divide fractions.

12. Math – and also to…. Measurement and Data
• Convert like measurement units within a given measurement system.
• Represent and interpret data.
• Geometric measurement: understand concepts of volume and relate volume to multiplication and to addition.
Geometry
• Graph points on the coordinate plane to solve real-world and mathematical problems.
• Classify two-dimensional figures into categories based on their properties.

13. Social Studies
Students will analyze the chronology of key events in the United States:
Native Americans
European Explorers
Early colonies and 13 Colonies
Revolutionary War
War of 1812
Westward Expansion
Slavery
Industrial Revolution
Civil War
Reconstruction

14. Social Studies Recurring themes throughout the year will include:
Utilizing map skills
Comparing primary and secondary documents
Drawing parallels between current events and historical events
Exploring the contributions of diverse groups in the building of our nation
Analyzing migration and immigration
Determining the positive and negative impacts of human activities on the physical environment of the U.S.
Explaining how the physical environment influenced human activities
Building on knowledge of economics by focusing on economic growth and principals in various cultures

15. Science Weather Ecosystems Matter Heat Transfer
forecasting the weather using instruments and clouds, jet stream, El Niño, La Nina, daily and seasonal changes in weather, water cycle
Ecosystems
food chains, food webs, compare ecosystems, classify organisms by their job i.e. decomposer, relationships between plants and animals
Matter
physical and chemical changes, quantitative and qualitative data, changes in the states of matter
Heat Transfer
transfer of heat, convection, conduction, radiation

16. Science Force and Motion Body Systems Genetics Health
Force, position, gravity, how mass affects an object
Body Systems
Function and structure of major body systems (Circulatory, Respiratory, Skeletal, Muscular, Digestive, and Nervous System)
Genetics
How some likenesses are inherited and others are not, how an organism is similar/different than its parent
Health
Mental, Emotional, Personal, Consumer, Interpersonal Communications and Relationships

17. Fifth Grade Events MAPS Testing - September 19, 20, 26, 27
No School - October 3
Early Release Day - October 12 at 12:15
Picture Day - October 18
Fall Celebration - October 20 at 1:45
Teacher Workday / Parent Conferences - October 31 (Sign Up Genius)
Washington, D.C. Field Trip TENTATIVE - February 7-11, 2017
Fifth Grade Valentine Dance - February 16,2017
Departure Rehearsal 9 a.m. - June 8, 2017
5th Grade Departure Celebration - Friday, June 9, 2017
See Grade Level Newsletters/Wiki/Bobcat Bulletin for updates

18. Thanks for coming and for your continued support as we challenge and prepare your child for future success!