1. 5th Grade Curriculum Night
Welcome Parents
Take a look through your child’s notebooks.

2. Daily Schedule 9:15 9:30 10:40 11:00 11:15 12:30-1:10 1:10
Morning Meeting
9:30
Math
10:40
Recess
11:00
Snack
11:15
Literacy
12:30-1:10
Recess/Lunch
1:10
Writer’s Workshop
2:00 or 2:45
Social Studies/Science/
2;15 or 2:45
Specialist:
Library Mon 2:45
Music Tues 2:45
Thurs 2:15
PE Wed 10:00am
Fri 2:15
3:25
Planner/Patrol
3:40
Dismissal
Daily Schedule

3. Classroom Management Positive Reinforcement Classroom Dojo Points
Coupons and Class Store
Soaring Eagle Awards
Respect, Responsible, Safe, Kind

4. Study Skills Organization skills – desk and learning materials
Planner - daily, weekly, long term assignments
Time management
Preparation students towards
greater independence for middle
school

5. Reading Program
Balanced reading instruction to support individual student development of reading proficiency
Reader’s workshop model- fiction/non-fiction/class novels/Making Meaning Curriculum
Teaching focus on modeling comprehension strategies of literary elements based on identifying evidence in text.
Time for Kids-current events magazine used for homework.
All 5th graders will take a Common Assessment in reading PRE and POST

6. Eureka Math Curriculum
Comprehensive curriculum written by teachers and mathematicians
Presents mathematics in a logical progression to prepare students to understand advanced math
Connects math to the real world and and is Common Core aligned.
This approach can be unfamiliar to those of us who grew up memorizing mathematical facts and formulas
Read the Parent Tip Sheet at the beginning of each Module.

7. Year at a Glance Trimester 1 Trimester 2 Trimester 3 Module 1
Place Value and Decimal Fractions
Module 3
Addition and Subtraction of Fractions
Module 5
Addition and Multiplication with Volume and Area
Module 2
Multi-Digit Whole Number and Decimal Fraction Operations
Module 4
Multiplication and Division of Fractions and Decimal Fractions
Module 6
Problem Solving with the Coordinate Plane

8. Writing: Lucy Calkins – Units of Study
Non Genre Specific
Narrative
Informative-Research Report
Persuasive
Memoir
Writers Workshop format

9. Social Studies U.S. Geography New World Exploration Colonization
Revolutionary War
Constitution and Bill of Rights

10. Science Physical Science-Motion & Design/Forms of Energy Fossils
Life Science and Experiments with Plants
Scientific Process
Science Journals

11. Health Developing healthy social/emotional skills
Healthy sense of self/collaboration/cooperation/ kindness
Nutrition/Fitness
Human Sexuality-FLASH

12. Technology Integrated with curriculum Internet Research
Power Point presentations
Publisher
Word processing

13. Goals Academic growth Personal growth Personal organization
Self discipline
Increased independence
Developing a healthy sense of self

14. Communication Questions??? *Open door policy *Purple Folders
*Optimal time for phone calls is before/after school -
Questions???