Mrs. Glodek, Mrs. McCotter, Mrs. Staples, and Mrs. Williams
The fifth grade will be studying the following concepts throughout the year.
READING
Reading Workshop
- Book Clubs
- Non-fiction
- Argument and advocacy
- Author’s Study
- Fantasy
Vocabulary
Comprehension Strategies (connections, inferences, visualizations, prediction, questions, summarizing, synthesizing)
Independent and Guided Reading
Writing about Reading
WRITING
Writing Workshop
- Narrative Craft
- Journalism
- Research Reports
- Literary Essays
- Memoir
MATH
- Number Sense (high emphasis)
- Memorization of Basic Facts
- Operations with Decimals
- Fractions
- Shapes
- Volume
- Measurement Conversion
- Coordinate Grids
- Line Plots and Line Graphs
SCIENCE
- Engineering
- Earth and Sun
- Mixtures and Solutions
- Energy and Matter in Organisms
- Energy and Matter in Ecosystems
SOCIAL STUDIES
- Exploration and Settlement
- Post-American Revolution and A New Nation
- The Civil War
- Reconstruction
HEALTH
- 5 Pillars of Character: Peacemaker Program
- LEAD Program
- Nutrition
- Safety
- Social-Emotional Learning
Technology is incorporated throughout all subjects!
Grade 5 Supply List 2021-2022 .pdf