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Back to School NightWelcome to Fifth Grade!2015-2016

1Fifth Grade TeamMr. Selak 5th grade TeacherMr. Picca 5th grade TeacherMrs. Sier 5th grade Learning Center TeacherMrs. Plummer 5th grade Learning Center

2Welcome to Grade 5Elementary Integrated CurriculumA model for curriculum, assessment, and instructionAligned to the Common Core State Standards A unique integrated curriculum designed to develop a college-ready mindset in all students by fostering critical and creative thinking and academic success skillsWill provide extension for our most advanced students and scaffolding for students in need of support

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MCPS Curriculum 2.0 is built around developing students critical and creative thinking skills, as well as essential academic success skills, so that students are well prepared for a lifetime of learning.4Creative Thinking Skills

Flexibility Elaboration

Critical Thinking Skills

Synthesis Evaluation

Academic Success Skills

CollaborationMetacognition Intellectual Risk Taking Effort/Motivation/Persistence

Thinking and Academic Success Skills (TASS)

5Two sides of the report card: academic successlearning skills

Academic grades are based on multiple and varied measures over time. Academic grades are based on the students level of proficiency on the measurement topics.

Academic grades do not take into account effort, attendance, behavior, and attitudes. These areas are noted in the learning skills section.

Grading Policy

6Will include all graded work, class work, and important notices.

Review materials with your child.

Initial and return this folder each Friday.

Thursday Folders7

Curriculum 2.0Reading / Language Arts

Welcome to Grade 5 Reading/Language Arts in Curriculum 2.0.8

Literary TextHistorical FictionDramaPoetryTraditional StoriesMysteryRealistic FictionAdventure StoriesGraphic Text

Students are exposed to diverse styles and genres of literary text during whole group & small group instruction in all four marking periods of Grade 5. Students compare and contrast story elements in a variety of text structures. Students quote text accurately when making inferences. Students examine a variety of narrative text structures.

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Literary NonfictionArticlesExtended Informational TextFirsthand/Secondhand AccountsTechnical TextGraphic TextMultimedia FormatsInformational Text

Students are exposed to diverse styles and genres of literary text during whole group & small group instruction in all four marking periods of Grade 5. Students make inferences, quoting the text accurately when referring to specific details in the text. Summarizing the text is one way students determine two or more main ideas in the text. There is an emphasis on understanding domain specific vocabulary during reading.

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Peer DiscussionLiterature StudyShared Inquiry Socratic SeminarLanguage VocabularyCollaborative Discussion

Within the Language Vocabulary Measurement topic students engage in different models of collaborative discussion about text. Students are provided the opportunity to collaborate: asking and answering questions, responding to the remarks of others, and being prepared to discuss the text are all characteristics of collaborative discussion. Students summarize information from a text read aloud or from information presented in diverse media formats. Collaborative discussions offer students multiple experiences with ideas and opportunities to reorganize their thinking. When students meet to discuss their insights about texts, they deepen and retain their understanding of the information presented.

11Writing Measurement TopicsNarrativeInformativeOpinionProcess, Production, and ResearchUse of Language

Measurement Topics are categories of content and processes that students should know and be able to do. There are five Measurement topics in writing on which students are assessed: Narrative, informative, Opinion, Process, Production, and Research, and Use of Language. These Measurement Topics have been aligned with the Common Core State Standards. Measurement topics are reported on each marking period.12Narrative WritingInformative Writing Opinion WritingThroughout Grade 5 writing instruction, students use the writing process approach to gather ideas, draft, revise, edit, produce and present narrative, informative, and opinion texts. Writing and Information Literacy complement one another to accomplish this.

To be ready for college, workforce training, and life in a technological society, the Common Core State Standards emphasize students ability to gather, comprehend, evaluate, synthesize, and report on information and ideas, to conduct original research in order to answer questions or solve problems, and to analyze and create a high volume and extensive range of print and nonprint texts in media forms old and new. The need to conduct research and to produce high quality writing is embedded into every aspect of todays curriculum. In like fashion, research and media skills and understandings are embedded throughout the standards rather than treated in a separate section. Inquiry is an approach to learning whereby students find and use a variety of sources of information and ideas to increase their understanding of a problem, topic, or issue. It requires more of them than simply answering questions or getting a right answer. It espouses investigation, exploration, search, quest, research, pursuit, and study. Inquiry does not stand alone. It engages, interests, and challenges students to connect their world with the curriculum (Carol Kuhlthau et. al).

13Grade 5 Mathematics Overview

14Desired OutcomesOperations and Algebraic ThinkingNumber and Operationsin Base TenNumber and OperationsFractionsMeasurement and DataWrite and Interpret Numerical ExpressionsGeometric Measurement: Understand Concepts of Volume and Relate Volume to Multiplication and AdditionGeometryAnalyze Patterns and RelationshipsUnderstand the Place Value SystemUse Equivalent Fractions as a Strategy to Add and Subtract FractionsApply and Extend Previous Understandings of Multiplication and Division to Multiply and Divide FractionsConvert Like Measurement Units within a Given Measurement SystemRepresent and Interpret DataGraph Points on the Coordinate Plane to Solve Real- World and Mathematical ProblemsClassify Two-Dimensional Figures into Categories Basedon Their PropertiesPerform Operations with Multi-Digit Whole Numbers and Decimals to Hundredths

15Math fact tests are given every Monday.Students are given up to 5 minutes to complete the test.Each student progresses at his or her own pace.Math Facts16

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Marking Period 1: Energy, Forces, MotionMarking Period 2: Electricity, Energy, Magnetism Marking Period 3: Astronomy & LightMarking Period 4: Cells, Heredity19Social StudiesMarking Period 1: American Revolutionary War Marking Period 2: History, Civics, and CultureMarking Period 3: Geography and HistoryMarking Period 4: Economics

Welcome to Grade 5 Social Studies!Throughout marking period 1, students develop their skills in collaboration and flexibility by gathering information from multiple and diverse perspectives and considering new ideas as they develop understandings about economic systems, political policies, and roles and viewpoints of individuals and groups during the American Revolutionary War period.

In Marking Period 2, through the measurement topics of History, Civics, and Culture, students examine the complex events that led to the abandonment of the Articles of Confederation and the eventual adoption of the Constitution of the United States. Throughout the marking period students develop skills in the area of metacognition by evaluating their understandings and seeking clarity by asking and answering questions. Students engage in the interdisciplinary Change in United States Government inquiry project in which they explore conflicts and compromises that occurred during a movement of change in United States history.

Study in Marking Period 3 focuses on the measurement topics of Geography and History. Students learn about settlement patterns in the United States today and during the time of territorial expansion, the early and mid-1800s.

Instruction in marking period 4 focuses on the measurement topic of Economics and is designed to support students in developing the ability to make informed, financially responsible decisions. Students expand their skills in effort, motivation, and persistence as they develop, implement, and evaluate steps taken toward the goal of becoming financially literate.

20Our Chromebook Adventure BeginsWe will be using Chromebooks this year.

What is a chromebook?A chromebook is a internet based, highly portable computer. It has a keyboard, microphone and camera. Each chromebook has applications on it that we will use to enhance our learning. Each student will have a Chromebook to use in the classroom and a Google account that can be used anywhere students have access to the internet

Why are we using chromebooks?

Whole Technology Modernization document is linked to picture.PARCCThe Partnership for Assessment of Readiness for College and Careers (PARCC) is a group of states working together todevelop a set of assessments that measure whether students are on track to be successful in college and their careers. These high quality, computer-based K12 assessments in Mathematics and English Language Arts/Literacy give teachers, schools, students, and parents better information whether students are on track in their learning and for success after high school, and tools to help teachers customize learning to meet student needs.

The PARCC assessments will held for grades 3-6: May 9 to June 3, 2016

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