What Your Fifth Grader Will Learn This Year
Fifth grade students will learn the following concepts and ideas by the end of the school year:
Reading
- Read grade level text orally with accuracy, appropriate rate, and expression
- Use multiple strategies to develop grade appropriate vocabulary
- Explain the purpose of text to establish a purpose for reading
- Determine the main idea and details in grade level text through inferring and summarizing
- Identify cause and effect relationships along with using prior knowledge to make predictions
- Compare and contrast elements in multiple texts
- Identify themes or topics in a variety of nonfiction and fiction text
- Use comprehension strategies integrated with graphic organizers to fully understand text
Social Studies
- The students will discuss American History time periods, Pre-Columbian North American History (Aztec/Mayas, Native American cultural aspects), Exploration and Settlement of North America (European Explorers), Colonization of North America (New England and thirteen colonies), American Revolution, and Geography (regions and places).
Writing
- Students use the writing process to develop creative, informative, and persuasive writings for an intended audience.
Math
- Develop an understanding of dividing whole numbers (multi-digit numbers) along with using real-world problems.
- Understand addition and subtraction of fractions with like/unlike denominators with rounding and determining the prime factorization of numbers; relate prime and composite numbers, factors, and multiples within the context of fractions
- Describe three-dimensional shapes and analyze their properties, including volume and surface area and data analysis (analyze line and double bar, and pictographs)
- Use the properties of equality to solve numerical and real world situations
- Using geometry and measurement (identify and plot ordered pairs, find area of plane figures)
Science
- Understanding of scientific knowledge (scientific investigation vs. experiment). Determine descriptions based on fact or personal belief.
- Earth in Space and Time (Gravity, energy, galaxies, stars, the Solar System – planets)
- The water cycle and the properties of water in changing conditions
- Properties of Matter (mass, basic properties, mixtures); explore the physical and chemical changes of matter.
- Forms of Energy (heat, light, sound, electrical, and mechanical)
- Organization and Development of Living Organisms (Identify organs in the human body, compare and contrast the functions of organs and other physical structures)