Welcometo

5th GradeCurriculum Night

Mr. Spooner

Attendance

• It is very important that your child be at school everyday.

• If your child has a fever or has been vomiting then they need to stay home.

• Be on time - Class starts at 9:00 am (10:00 on Wednesdays)

• Classroom doors are open 15 minutes before• School doors open for breakfast at 8:30

Common Core Standards

• Academic Standards in Math and English/Language Arts that have been adopted by 45 out of 50 states across the country

• These standards provide consistency and clarity for students

• They are relevant to the real world and challenging to give students the skills and knowledge for success in college and careers

The Forward Curriculum

• It is common core aligned, and offers more digital resources for teachers.

• This past summer, teachers around the district collaborated to create detailed curriculum maps specifically supporting our David Douglas students.

Most students should expect to receive 3s and 4s

5 : Exemplary- above grade level

4: Proficient- at grade level

3: Approaching Proficient- occasionally meets grade level standards; beginning to grasp and apply key processes and skills for their grade level, but produces work that contains errors

2: Not Yet Proficient-not meeting grade level standards and is working one

or more years below grade level 1: Insufficient Evidence Towards Standard-missing assignments, and/or

length of time in school (frequent absences)

X: Not yet assessed

Grades Throughout the Year

• Conferences will be a time to go over your student’s testing data, and discuss

goals to work on before the report card.

Report cards are sent out 2 times in the year (January and June).• Grades ideally should go up throughout the

year. Content that has been taught earlier in the year, will be reviewed before assessment.

State Assessment

• Smarter Balanced Assessments in math and language arts will take place in April and May.

• The test is aligned to the Common Core standards.

State Assessment

• 5th grade will take the OAKS science assessment in the early spring.

• The test will assess their knowledge of the science taught in grades 3, 4 and 5.

• 5th grade content instruction will focus on science after finishing the Biztown economics unit. We will return to social studies later in the spring.

A Morning In The Life Of Room 20!

• We start each day with library/computer lab, music or PE. 40 minutes

• Reading: Vocabulary Lesson, Strategy Lesson, Small Group Guided Reading Lesson, Independent Task Work. 100 minutes

• Social Studies or Science 35 minutes• Recess at 12:10 with lunch following.

An Afternoon In The Life Of Room 20!

• Language Instruction: 30 minutes• Math: 60 minutes• Writing: 40 minutes• Dismissal at 3:15 p.m.

Academic Focal Points: Language Arts

• Close Reading Strategies• Novel Study• Analyzing Multiple Texts/Points Of View• Challenging Informational Text• Variety Of Literary Genres• Systematic Vocabulary Practice• Fluency and Accuracy.

Academic Focal Points: Language Arts

• Narrative, Persuasive and Expository Writing Projects.

• Revising• Editing• Writing Projects Will Connect With Science

and Social Studies Lessons.• Major Focus On Composing At The Keyboard

With District Google Docs Account.

Academic Focal Points: Math• Multiplication And Division Of Whole Numbers,

Decimals and Fractions• Measuring Volume• Converting Measurements: feet to miles, meters

to kilometers• Classifying 2 Dimensional Polygons-

Quadrilaterals And Triangles• Analyzing, Graphing Coordinate Plane• Graphing Line Plots• Order Of Operations; Writing Numerical

Expressions

Academic Focal Points: Science And Social Studies

• Health: Great Body Shop• Life and Earth Science: 3 Zenger Farm Field

Trips• Physical Science: Forces and Energy• Scientific Inquiry Projects• Economics/Personal Finance: Biztown!• Geography Skills• Colonial-Revolutionary War US History• US Constitution/Government

Thank you for coming and supporting your child.