This document provides an overview of the 5th grade curriculum for the 2013-2014 school year. It discusses the core subjects that will be covered including Language Arts, Mathematics, Science, and Social Studies. For Language Arts, the Common Core standards for literature and informational text are outlined. Mathematics will focus on operations, fractions, measurement, and geometry. Science topics include forces and motion, matter, living organisms, ecosystems, and energy. Social Studies will cover US history, government, economics, and geography. Study skills and summer reading assignments are also reviewed.

1. 5th Grade
2013 Curriculum Night May 9, 2013

2. April 9th – 11th, 2014
Williamsburg
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• 2 payment dates
(October & February)
• All chaperones
must be on the
CMS approved
volunteer list.

3. 2012 – 2013 School Year Introduced
NC Common Core – Language Arts
NC Common Core - Mathematics

4. 5th Grade
Language Arts5th Grade

5. NC Common Core – Language Arts
• In grade five, students will read a wide range of
literature, including stories, plays, and poems.
Additionally, they will read to learn information about
history, the world, science, and other areas.
Literature Informational Text

6. NC Common Core Language Arts - Literature
• Determine theme
Literary
Themes
Equality
Perseverance
Choices

7. NC Common Core Language Arts - Literature
• Summarize text
Equality
Perseverance
Choices

8. NC Common Core Language Arts - Literature
• Determine influence of speaker on text
Equality
Perseverance
Choices

9. NC Common Core Language Arts - Informational
• Quote text
Equality
Perseverance
Choices
Be the change you want to
see in the world.
Mahatma Gandhi

10. NC Common Core Language Arts - Informational
• Connect ideas from multiple sources
Equality
Perseverance
Choices

11. Differentiation in Language Arts
• Students may be placed in
different novels
• Students may be in the same
novel, but have different
contracts.
• Small group instruction
• Small group remediation

12. Reading
1. An independent novel
- chosen for enjoyment
2. A novel you are reading
aloud to your child.
Why????
• Your child should be engaged in
two novels at all times

13. NC Common Core Language Arts - Writing
• Narrative, opinion, and informational
Equality
Perseverance
Choices

15. NC Common Core Language Arts - Grammar
• Spelling, punctuation, and parts of speech
Equality
Perseverancepre
Choices
verbs

16. Informational Text Resources
Time For Kids
National Geographic Pathfinder

17. Informational Text Resources

18. NC Common Core Mathematics
• Order of operations
• Patterns in powers of 10
• Write expressions to solve
real world problems
• Operations and Algebraic Thinking

19. NC Common Core Mathematics
• Comparing decimals
• Place value
• Adding and subtracting
whole numbers
• Multiplying and dividing
whole numbers
• Number and Operation in Base Ten

20. NC Common Core Mathematics
• Fraction sense
• Adding and subtracting
with unlike denominators
• Fractions
• Multiplying fractions
• Dividing unit fractions
and whole numbers

21. NC Common Core Mathematics
• Coordinate graphing
• Volume
• Measurement conversions
• Measurement and Data

22. NC Common Core Mathematics
• Quadrilateral classification
• Geometry

23. Third Grade
Science- Fifth Grade

24. NC ESSENTIAL
STANDARDS
Forces and Motion
Understand force,
motion and the
relationship between
them.
Key Terms: Gravity, Friction, Speed,
Position, Motion, Force, Mass, Inertia,
Acceleration, Momentum

25. NC ESSENTIAL STANDARDS
Matter: Properties and Change
Key Terms:
evaporation, condensation, precipitation, matter, e
nergy, liquid, solid, gas, chemical change, physical
change
Understand the interactions of
matter and energy and the
changes that occur.

26. NC ESSENTIAL
STANDARDS
Structures and Functions
of Living Organisms
Understand how structures and
systems of organisms (to include
the human body) perform
functions necessary for life.
Systems:
Nervous, Respiratory, Muscular, Skeletal,
Circulatory, Cardiovascular, Digestive

27. NC ESSENTIAL
STANDARDS
Ecosystems
Understand the
interdependence of
plants and animals
with their ecosystem.
Key Terms:
ecosystem, interdependence, produc
er, consumer, decomposer, food
chain, food web, biome

28. NC ESSENTIAL
STANDARDS
Energy: Conservation
and Transfer
Key Terms: convection, conduction, heat
transfer, radiation, molecule, atom, electro
magnetic waves, thermal
energy, temperature,
Explain how the
properties of some
materials change as a
result of heating and
cooling.

29. NC ESSENTIAL
STANDARDS
Earth
Systems, Structures
and Processes
Understand weather
patterns and
phenomena, making
connections to the
weather in a particular
place and time.
Key Terms: cold/warm fronts, cirrus
clouds, cumulus clouds, stratus
clouds, barometer, El Nino, Gulf

30. NC ESSENTIAL
STANDARDS
Evolution and
Genetics
,
Understand why
organisms differ from
or are similar to their
parents based on the
characteristics of the
organism.
Key Terms:
genetics, heredity, traits, genes, DNA
, inherit

31. Fifth Grade Social Studies!

32. NC ESSENTIAL STANDARDS – Social
Studies
• History: Analyzing the chronology of key events in the
United States
From first explorers Through Reconstruction

33. NC ESSENTIAL STANDARDS – Social
Studies
• Understand how human activity has and continues to shape
the United States

34. NC ESSENTIAL STANDARDS – Social Studies
•Understand how a
market economy
impacts life in the
United States
•Understand that
personal choices
result in benefits or
consequences

35. NC ESSENTIAL STANDARDS – Social Studies
•Understand the
development, structure,
and function of
government in the
United States
•Analyze life in a
democratic republic
through rights and
responsibilities of
citizens

36. NC ESSENTIAL STANDARDS – Social Studies
• Understand how increased
diversity resulted from
migration, settlement
patterns, and economic
development in the United
States

37. 5th Grade
Study Skills

38. 5th Grade
Study Skills
How Your Child Can Prepare
For A Test or Quiz ?
1. Read assigned text/handout
2. Organize info in their spiral notebook- See
examples
3. Complete graphic organizers
4. Take notes

39. 5th Grade
Study Skills

40. 5th Grade
Study Skills
It is our expectation that our students spend
about 60 minutes nightly on homework.
Research shows that homework
reinforces, extends, and prepares students for
classroom learning.
Homework……Help!!!!

41. Helpful Homework Tips
For Parents
1. Plan a daily homework time.
2. Choose a quiet place and provide supplies for
your child to use while studying.
3. Be ready to assist him or her with difficult
problems or words.
***This is not the time to drop your child cold
turkey.
4 Be available to check over completed
assignments for understanding and accuracy.
5 Assist your child in studying for tests by
reviewing vocabulary, notes and asking
questions about the content.
5th Grade
Study Skills

42. Projects and
Research
A. Explorer projects
B. Museums In The Schools
C. Science projects
D. Williamsburg project
• Projects are completed as in-school
assignments
5th Grade
Study Skills

43. • Summer Math
• Assignment-
• Master
• Multiplication
• Facts
5th Grade
Study Skills

44. Practice Tips
1. Create Flash Cards
2. Timed Test
3. Call Out Math Facts While
Traveling
4. Play Multiplication Board Games
5. Use The On-line Websites
5th Grade
Study Skills

45. Summer Reading
Assignment
Rising 5th grade
students are required
to choose one of the
following books for
their summer reading.
5th Grade
Study
Skills

46. Number The Stars
by Lois Lowry
5th Grade
Study Skills
Number the Stars tells the tale of Annemarie
Johansen, a young girl living in Denmark
during World War II. The book opens in
1943, three years after German soldiers first
arrived to occupy the small country. After
three years of living uneasily with this
occupying force, the gloves finally come off as
the German Nazis begin their campaign to
"relocate" all the Jews of Denmark. The
Danish Resistance, made up of ordinary
citizens like the Johansen family, works
steadily to smuggle the Jews out of Denmark
and over the sea to nearby Sweden.
Annemarie, only ten years old, must find
courage and maturity beyond her years within
herself in order to help her best friend, Ellen
Rosen, escape from the Nazis.

47. The Hobbit
by J.R.R Tolkien
5th Grade
Study Skills
Bilbo Baggins begins as a
cautious and conservative
hobbit, well respected and
considered a pillar of the
hobbit community.
When he reluctantly sets out
on a quest to recover the
stolen treasure of a band of
dwarves, he encounters
dangers of all descriptions.
His adventures, which figure
prominently in a prophecy of
the dwarves, are like stepping
stones on the inner journey
Biblo must take to find his
courage. Bilbo faces trials
which again and again force
him to look deep inside
himself for the strength and
resourcefulness he needs to
complete the task expected of
him.

48. The
Pinballs
by Betsy Byars
5th Grade
Study Skills
Carlie, Harvey and Thomas J., three foster
children, have been taken in by the Masons who
have had many other foster children in the past.
It's Carlie who compares the children to
pinballs, controlled by external forces, and at the
mercy of fate. Carlie is tough; she has been abused
by her step-fathers and is convinced that people
are not to be trusted. The master of insult, she
maintains her tough exterior.
Harvey has two broken legs, having been run over
by an alcoholic father after being abandoned by
his mother. He is convinced that his father has kept
his mother from communicating with him since
she ran away to find herself in a commune.
Thomas J was also abandoned; he was found as a
toddler by elderly twin sisters whose minimal love
and care for him has ended when both of them are
hospitalized with broken hips. He is inarticulate
and overly anxious to please. The Masons provide
a supportive environment in which the children
learn to care for each other and begin to
experience love and trust. This is a
believable, funny and touching novel.

49. Tuck Everlasting
by Natalie Babbitt
5th Grade
Study Skills
Tuck Everlasting is the story of a girl
named Winnie and a family whom she
meets, the Tucks. The Tucks have a
secret: they're immortal. They drank
water from a spring that was actually a
fountain of youth. Until the end of
time, they will stay that way. Winnie
falls in love with one of the
Tucks, Jesse, a "17"-year-old boy who
shares the same feelings for her. Scared
of death, Winnie must choose between
being immortal and being with Jesse or
following the circle of life and dying
someday. The Tucks try to teach her how
she shouldn't fear death, how they
would give anything to die. It teaches
the importance and understanding of
life and death. It shows that you should
not fear death, but to fear an unlived
life.

50. The One and Only Ivan
by Katherine Applegate
5th Grade
Study Skills
Ivan is an easygoing gorilla. Living at the Exit 8
Big Top Mall and Video Arcade, he has grown
accustomed to humans watching him through
the glass walls of his domain. He rarely misses
his life in the jungle. In fact, he hardly ever
thinks about it at all.
Instead, Ivan thinks about TV shows he's seen
and about his friends Stella, an elderly
elephant, and Bob, a stray dog. But mostly
Ivan thinks about art and how to capture the
taste of a mango or the sound of leaves with
color and a well-placed line.
Then he meets Ruby, a baby elephant taken
from her family, and she makes Ivan see their
home—and his own art—through new eyes.
When Ruby arrives, change comes with
her, and it's up to Ivan to make it a change for
the better.

51. Storm Breaker
by Anthony Horowitz
Alex Rider thinks he is a normal school
boy, until his uncle is killed. He discovers
that his uncle was actually spy on a
mission, when he was killed. Alex is
recruited by Alan Blunt to continue the
mission. He is sent to Cornwall to
investigate a new computer system, which
Darrius Sayle has created. He plans to give
the new computer systems to every
school in the country, but Mr. Blunt has
other ideas and Alex must find out what it
is.
5th Grade
Study Skills

52. Summer Reading
Assessment
Graphic Organizer
Seminar
Quiz
5th Grade
Study Skills

54. 5th Grade Website
j.mp/pse5