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Welcome to Curriculum Night
Mrs. Pelletier’s 5th Grade Class
Daily Schedule7:50-8:20 Morning Work 8:20-9:40 Math 9:40-10:40 Reading 9:40 - 10:20 Guided 10:20-10:40 Whole Grp10:40-11:25 Specials11:30-11:55 Recess12:05-12:35 Lunch12:35 - 1:10 Grammar 1:10-2:10 Writing Workshop 2:10- 3:00 Social Studies3:00- 3:05 Pack-Up / Dismissal
Specials Schedule• Monday – Music
• Tuesday – PE
• Wednesday – Technology/Counseling
• Thursday – Art
• Friday – PE
Homework Expectations• 50 or less minutes
for 5th grade
• Wordly Wise exercises and practice
• Math Workbook
• Online math textbook on my website
• Reading Log
• Projects or special presentations.
Classroom Rules1. Follow directions the first time they are
given.2. Raise your hand for permission to speak.3. Raise your hand for permission to leave
your seat. 4. Keep your hands, your feet, and any
other objects to yourself. 5. Be respectful of others.
6. Stay on task.7. Follow student dress code.
Grading• Tests/Projects/Performance Assessment
– Fridays (may move to Tuesdays by the end of the first quarter)-Weekly Reading Test every other week will be a summative assessment
– Fridays- – Wordly Wise every other week
• Class work- Projects, Worksheets, Problem Solving
• Homework- incomplete homework counts towards a conduct grade. Excessive zeros in this area will yield an N in conduct.
Summative Assessment Re-tests
Students will be allowed ONE retest for each assessment.
Students eligible for a retest must participate in re-teaching and re-learning sessions and/or assignments as determined by the teacher.
Students will receive the higher of the two grades.
The purpose of allowing a retest is to ensure mastery of standards.
Communication
Class • Web page
Monday Mail
Folders
770) 888-1222X170320
Standardized Testing-
Come to our January Meeting•CRCT Testing: a state standardized test that
assesses mastery of the 5th grade curriculum. Students must pass the reading and math sections in order to be promoted to 6th grade
•Georgia Writing Assessment: an evaluation of each student’s response to an assigned prompt from a bank representing three genres: narrative, informational, and persuasive. Students are allowed approximately 120 minutes to write their essays.
• Rubrics and Checklists:– Rubric-quantitative
matrix of assessment
– Checklist-the “kid friendly” version of the rubric
– Contracts: For those who have mastered the skills and can go deeper into the standards with an “extension” activity.
Project Based Instruction
Reading
• Novel Studies– Guided Reading Groups– Reading for meaning: predict, connect,
question, evaluate, summarize– Literary elements
• Main grades comes from– Wordly Wise Tests– Weekly cold read test
Math 8:20-9:40
Fifth Grade Concepts to Learn • Number and Operations• Algebra• Data Analysis• Word Problems• Measurement
Previous Concepts / Skills to MaintainAdd and subtract decimalsWhole numbers and decimals computationAngle measurementLength, area, and weightNumber senseAdd and subtract common fractions with like denominatorsData usage and representationCharacteristics of 2-D and 3-D shapesOrder of OperationsProperties of addition and multiplication
Language Arts
Grammar Power Point
– We practice all 5th grade standards at once!
• Word of the day/ Idiom of the Day /Oxymoron of the day/Pun of the day
• Wordly Wise – test every other Friday
Writing• Georgia Performance Standards
cover:•Informational writing•Persuasive writing•Narrative writing
• 6 Traits of Writing: Ideas, Word Choice, Voice, Conventions, Organization, Sentence Fluency.
Writing Workshop• WRITING WORKSHOP RUBRIC
• Each day, we will have Writing Workshop.
• Mini Lesson (about 20 minutes)
• Focus on a genre-Narrative, Persuasive, Informational, and Response to Literature.
• The Writing Process: Drafting, editing, revising, publishing
• Moving of the Magnets: To be implemented at the end of the first quarter once the understanding of the writing process is
applicable on writing assignments.
Social StudiesUNITED STATES HISTORY SINCE 1860-Present
ScienceEarth Science– Landforms of Georgia – Effects of constructive forces – Offers and considers reasoning – Effects of destructive forces – Role of technology in control – Measures and estimates
Physical Science – Uses scientific tools – Introduction to conservation of matter– Physical Changes – Chemical Changes – Electricity and magnetism
Life Science –Classification of organisms –Draws and sketches –Inheritance of traits –Learned behaviors –Researches for scientific information –Cells and microorganisms
Habits of the MindQuestions and seeks to find answersCompares physical attributesReplicates investigations Works safelyRecords observationsQuantifies data Assembles, describes, takes apart, and reassemblesIdentifies parts and makes models Describes changes
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