Welcome to Fifth Grade

Fifth grade is the final year of lower school at Blue Oak, and with that distinction, the fifth grade school job is leadership.

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Making announcements, helping clear out the lost and found, and advertising school wide spirit days are just a few of the responsibilities the fifth grade students carry. Study topics explore the founding of our nation and the American Revolution and reach out into space to explore the phases of the Moon, the Sun, gravity and space in general. The overnight adventure of fifth grade includes some aspects of star gazing and the night sky.

Fifth Grade Social and Emotional Standards (C.A.R.E.S.)

Cooperation: Is able to make and keep friends, works with others toward a common goal, resolves differences quickly, cooperates as a group leader or as a member of the group
Assertiveness: Expresses strong emotions or opinions effectively, is able to seek help, shows openness and honesty, persists through challenging events, takes initiative to do what’s right, makes choices they feel good about later
Responsibility: Selects the best option among choices for a suitable outcome, holds oneself accountable, demonstrates social, civic and digital responsibility, takes care of property
Empathy: Recognizes and manages one’s own emotions and recognizes the emotions of others, respects and values diversity in others. Respects different cultural norms, is aware of the impact of one’s actions on others
Self-control: Adheres to social, behavioral, and moral standards, manages overwhelming thoughts and emotions, controls impulses and delays gratification, shows hope and perseverance

Fifth Grade Mathematics

A Blue Oak math classroom features a combination of whole-group, small-group, and independent activities that are problem centered. In fifth grade, students focus on computing with fractions, dividing with larger numbers, calculating with decimal numbers, and finding the volume of rectangular prisms. Cooperative games and projects are part of the math curriculum.

Communicates and represents mathematical thinking
Organizes mathematical thinking efficiently and clearly to demonstrate their process
Reads, writes, and compares numbers to millions, using standard form, word form and expanded form
Writes and interprets numerical expressions using parentheses and brackets
Fluently adds and subtracts whole numbers (including decimals to the thousandths)
Knows multiplication and division facts with automaticity
Understands and explains patterns using powers of ten
Reads, writes, compares and can round decimals to the thousandths place
Successfully multiplies 4 digit numbers by up to 2 digit numbers
Successfully divides up to 4 digit numbers by up to 2 digit numbers
Uses equivalent fractions as a strategy to problem solve using the four operations involving fractions with unlike denominators
Uses decimals to the hundredths place to solve problems using concrete models of the four operations
Converts measurement units within the same given measurement system
Represents and interprets data
Recognize volume as an attribute of solid figures
Relates volume to the operations of multiplication and addition, and solves real-world and mathematical problems involving volume.
Classifies two dimensional figures based on their properties

Fifth Grade Literacy

Speaking and Listening

Engages effectively in a range of collaborative discussions (one-on-one, in groups and teacher-led) with diverse partners on grade level topics
Comes to discussions prepared, having read or studied required material
Follows agreed-upon rules for discussion
Makes comments that contribute to the discussion and elaborate on the remarks of others
Reports on a topic or text, or present an opinion, sequencing ideas logically and using appropriate facts and relevant, descriptive details to support main ideas or themes
Speaks clearly and at an understandable pace

Reading

Fifth grade is a time for students to practice their intellectual independence. Students draw on a repertoire of ways for reading closely, noticing how story elements interact, understanding how different authors develop the same theme, and comparing and contrasting texts that develop a similar theme. Students investigate the ways nonfiction texts are becoming more complex, and they learn strategies to tackle these new challenges. Strong foundational skills, such as fluency, orienting to texts, and word solving, are required to read complex nonfiction. These skills are used to conduct research on a debatable topic, consider perspective and craft, evaluate arguments, and formulate their own evidence-based, ethical positions on issues. Finally, students work in clubs to become deeply immersed in the fantasy genre and further develop higher-level thinking skills to study how authors develop characters and themes over time. They think metaphorically as well as analytically, explore the quests and themes within and across their novels, and consider the implications of conflicts, themes, and lessons learned.

Reads and comprehends various grade level texts with sufficient accuracy, fluency, and comprehension.
Refers to setting, plot, characters, author’s purpose, and point of view in summarizing a piece of literature
Compares and contrasts various literary elements across texts
Determines the main idea of a nonfiction text and explain how the key details support the main idea
Synthesizes information from several texts on the same topic in order to write or speak about the subject knowledgeably

Writing

Fifth grade writers employ the Writers Workshop to create personal narratives, research papers, argument essays, and memoir. Students work to develop their craft and skill to communicate their ideas, opinions, and learning in a variety of methods for a variety of audiences.

Writes regularly in their writer’s notebook to develop ideas, while thoughtfully trying new strategies and genres
Uses the writing process to draft, set goals, revise and edit their writing
Develops craft and elaboration techniques (description, plot, theme, evidence, and literary language) across a variety of writing genres
Develops structure techniques (overall structure, lead, transitions, ending, and organization) across a variety of writing genres
Uses grade level language conventions (spelling, punctuation and grammar)

Fifth Grade Science

Understands and applies the steps of the scientific method
Develops own scientific vocabulary
Collects and records data using models to accurately depict scientific concepts or principles
Organizes and analyzes scientific data to clearly demonstrate results of experimentation or research
Develops testable hypotheses and demonstrates learning when explaining results about the properties of matter: particles too small to be seen and conservation of matter
Develops testable hypotheses and demonstrates learning when explaining results about energy conservation and flow of matter in plants, animals and the ecosystem

Fifth Grade Social Studies

Researches key US geographical features and examines the ways in which geography has affected groups of people over time
Summarizes how groups of first Americans adapted to different environments in North America
Analyzes historical artifacts from American Indian groups and compares/contrasts life in various regions
Identifies the key European Expeditions, including the reasons for wanting to colonize the New World
Describes the cooperation and conflict that existed among the American
Indians and between the Indian nations and the new settlers
Explains the early democratic ideas and practices that emerged during the colonial period
Analyzes and explains differing perspectives of oppression and how this leads to movements and revolutions
Demonstrates the factors that helped the colonists win the American Revolution
Identifies the values, structures, and systems that led to social injustice in America from pre-colonial period until the early 20th century
Identifies what it means to be a citizen of the United States
Analyzes primary and secondary sources as historical evidence
Presents research findings through speeches, projects, and reports

Fifth Grade Physical Education

Strikes a tossed ball with consistency
Engages in sportsmanship and accepts wins and losses with awareness of others
Participates effectively and demonstrates effort in sports games and fitness activities
Perform flexibility and strengthening exercises with proper form
Dribbles and passes a ball to a partner while being guarded
Throws an object accurately and with applied force
Analyzes and corrects errors in movement patterns
Shows self-control by accepting a controversial decision by an official
Identifies and defines the role of each participant in a cooperative physical activities

Fifth Grade Visual Art

Implements monochromatic, analogous colors schemes
Instinctively applies the elements and principles of design to artwork
Instinctively applies observational skills in creative process
Sets goals, combines ideas to create artwork that is both meaningful, innovative and with purpose.
Brainstorms different approaches to a creative art or design problem
Discusses thoughts, feelings and experiences expressed in artwork. Collaborates with others on feedback and critique
Through observation, gathers information about other cultures, time, and place
Demonstrates quality craftsmanship through care for and use of materials and tools. Applies learned vocabulary in creating a work of art
Develops safe and effective use of materials and techniques for preparing and presenting artwork

Fifth Grade Library and Information Technology

Accesses information using knowledge of the organization of libraries, print and digital materials.
Defines topic of a research investigation and formulates appropriate questions
Identifies and locates a variety of resources using effective search strategies.
Uses text features in both print and online sources.
Uses scanning and skimming skills to locate relevant information.
Evaluates information for currency, credibility, authority, and relevance.
Considers need for additional information.
Demonstrates ethical, legal, and safe use of information.
Reads a good representation of grade level text.
Understands the basic components of information literacy (e.g. identify, access, evaluate and use information effectively).
Understands that genre is a term that describes types of literary works.

Fifth Grade Spanish

Uses different greetings, farewells and expressions of courtesy according to the time of day and relationship with the person to whom he/she is speaking
Uses verbal cues provided in the target language to infer meaning
Responds accurately to basic conversational questions
Uses previously learned vocabulary in the target language, including family, careers, and use of common interrogative pronouns
Communicates on several familiar topics using sentences
Demonstrates comprehension of sentences and/or phrases in the target language
Comprehends classroom directions provided in the target language
Expresses likes, dislikes and emotions in the target language
Shares information about self in the target language
Begins to demonstrate comprehension and use of -AR and -ER/IR regular verbs in the present tense (in the first person singular, the first person singular and plural, and the third person singular)
Practices cultural components through music, games and celebrations

Fifth Grade Music

Sings a variety of unison songs and canons with developmental accuracy
Demonstrates understanding of simple and compound meters
Demonstrates understanding of musical structure/form including phrases and sections, introduction, interlude, coda
Achieves beginning level African drumming technique
Develops ukulele technique
Hones ensemble playing and performance skills
Demonstrates an understanding of word rhythm and singable/memorable melody
Demonstrates a willingness to improvise

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