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Standard #1: Reading for Information:
Students will read and understand informational materials, describe characteristics of informational text and use facts, ideas and perspectives in developing concepts.
- 5.1.a Integrate and summarize accurate and comprehensive information from multiple resources.
Standard #2: Reading Literature:
Students will read and understand a variety of classic and contemporary literature representing diverse historical and cultural perspectives to build an understanding of themselves and others, their environment and the world.
- 5.2.b Analyze story content and authors’ styles through a variety of genre.
Standard #3: Process of Reading:
Students will demonstrate their understanding of the reading process by using reading and thinking skills and strategies to achieve their purposes in reading.
- 5.3.c Critically analyze text.
Standard #4: Literacy Communities:
Students will recognize the value of personal and social connection of reading, read to satisfy personal interests, and to establish, maintain and enhance personal relationships with others.
- 5.4.d Enjoy reading and sharing ideas with others.
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Standard #1:
Students will use mathematics to solve problems, communicate, and work with others.
- 5.1.a solve problems using the “make a table” strategy.
- 5.1.b solve problems using the “extra data” strategy.
- 5.1.c solve multiple step problems.
Standard #2:
Students will use measurement skills.
- 5.2.d measure length to the nearest ¼ inch.
- 5.2.e change customary units of capacity from pints to gallons.
Standard #3:
Students will use reasoning skills, mental mathematics, and estimation skills.
- 5.3.f round whole numbers up to the millions place.
- 5.3.g solve problems using the “make an organized list” strategy.
Standard #4:
Students will perform mathematical operations and see relationships among numbers.
- 5.4.h add fractions with like denominators.
- 5.4.i subtract fractions with like denominators.
- 5.4.j reduce fractions to simplest form.
- 5.4.k add decimals with four digits.
- 5.4.l subtract decimals with four digits.
- 5.4.m multiply decimals with 2- and 3-digit factors.
- 5.4.n divide a 3-digit number by a 1-digit number with and without remainder
Standard #5:
Students will demonstrate a development of spatial sense.
- 5.5.o draw or construct a(n) acute, obtuse and right angle.
Standard #6:
Students will collect and analyze data.
- 5.6.p analyze a double bar graph.
- 5.6.q analyze a line graph.
Standard #7:
Students will use patterns and relationships to solve problems.
- 5.7.r demonstrate an understanding of place value through millions.
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Standard #1:
Students will understand major concepts in earth science and how these apply to society.
- 5.1.a distinguish that organisms may interact with one another in a producer/consumer relationship or predator/prey relationship.
Standard #2:
Students will understand major concepts in life science and how these apply to society.
- 5.2.b compare and contrast animal and plant cells through observation.
- 5.2.c understand the various parts of a microscope and its uses.
Standard #3:
Students will understand major concepts in physical science and how these apply to society.
- 5.3.d distinguish between a parallel and series circuit.
- 5.3.e understand the components of a simple circuit.
Standard #4:
Students will use scientific inquiry processes (e.g. questioning, observing, predicting, experimenting, controlling variables, concluding) to understand the natural world.
- 5.4.f develop predictions and analyze observations through trial and error.
Standard #5:
Students will recognize the inter-relationships among the earth, life, and physical sciences and their effect on the environment.
- 5.5.g classify, compare and contrast the properties of rocks.
- 5.5.h identify the kinds of rocks and how they are formed.
Standard #6:
Students will know the needs, functions, and systems of the human body, as it develops into an adult.
- 5.6.i understand various body changes during growth.
- 5.6.j develop an awareness and recognize how AIDS is transmitted.
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Standard #1:
The student will use maps, charts, graphs and timelines.
- 5-6.1.a Interpret political and physical maps.
- 5-6.1.b Use longitude and latitude to plot specific locations.
- 5-6.1.c Read time zones on maps.
- 5-6.1.d Interpret information given on charts, graphs and timelines.
Standard #2:
The student will demonstrate research skills.
- 5-6.2.e Evaluate research materials to determine best sources.
- 5-6..2.f Develop a bibliography of sources used.
Standard #3:
The student will demonstrate cultural awareness.
- 5-6.3.g Describe some of the various cultures found in our world.
Standard #4:
The student will demonstrate a geographic perspective.
- 5-6.4.h Explain and give an example of how the location and resources of an area influence/contribute to that area’s culture and/or economy.
Standard #5:
The student will demonstrate participatory citizenship.
- 5-6.5.i Respond to a contemporary community issue with a personal action (i.e., a letter, community service project, etc.).
Standard #6:
The student will demonstrate an understanding of democracy.
- 5-6.6.j Identify the characteristics of a democratic form of government.
Standard #7:
The student will demonstrate economic awareness.
- 5-6.7.k Explain basic principles of economics (wants, needs, goods, services and personal financing).
Standard #8:
The student will demonstrate historical thinking.
- 5-6.8.l Retell the story of U.S. history.
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Standard #1:
Students will perform music alone and with others.
- 1.a. Students will perform descants to songs.
Standard #2:
Students will read and write music.
- 2.b. Students will read and perform from staff notation a diatonic song containing the rhythm of a dotted eighth note followed by a sixteenth note.
Standard #3:
Students will listen and respond to a varied repertoire of music.
- 3.c. Students will identify the sections in a march form.
Standard #4:
Students will describe music as it relates to history, culture, and diversity.
- 4.d. Students will identify and describe styles of jazz.
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Standard #1:
Students will perform a varied repertoire of music, alone and with others.
- 1.a. Students will perform alone and with others on their instrument.
Standard #2:
Students will read and notate music.
- 2.b. Students will demonstrate the ability to read quarter, half, whole, eighth, dotted and sixteenth notes and rests in 4/4, 2/4, and 3/4 meter signatures.
Standard #3:
Students will listen, reflect, and respond to the characteristics and merits of music.
- 3.c. Students use appropriate terminology in explaining music, music notation, musical instruments, and music performances.
Standard #1: Aesthetic Perception:
To inquire into the nature, beauty, and experiences of art through sensory perception.
- 5.1.a. The student will communicate his/her ideas about art and the surrounding world.
Standard #2: Art Criticism:
To observe, reflect, and understand the characteristics and significance of one's own artwork and the artwork of others.
- 5.2.b. The student will describe ideas or feelings connected with the viewing or making of art.
Standard #3: Art History:
To acquire knowledge of historical and cultural development through varying aesthetic points of view.
- 5.3.c. The student will compare characteristics of art works in various eras and cultures
Standard #4: Art Production:
To create and express ideas through a variety of media, techniques, and processes.
- 5.4.d. The student will use a variety of media, techniques and processes to express meaning through art.
Standard #1: Communication:
Students understand and interpret spoken and written communication in the target language on a variety of topics.
Standard #2: Cultures:
Students will demonstrate an awareness of the cultures of the target languages.
Standard #3: Connections:
Students reinforce and further their knowledge of other disciplines through the target language.
Standard #4: Comparisons:
Students will develop insight into their own language and culture through the study of the target language and culture.
Standard #5: Communities:
Students will participate in multilingual communities at home and around the world.
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Standard #1:
Students engage in the writing process: All students will plan, write and revise while identifying personal strengths and weaknesses in writing.
- 5.1.a. Students will brainstorm, draft, revise, and edit a descriptive or narrative piece of writing.
- 5.1.b. Students will demonstrate an understanding of the principles of language. They will transfer conventions in their writing and enrich writing through use of vocabulary. They will increase focus in organization, voice, and style.
Standard #2:
Students write for a variety of purposes and audiences: All students will demonstrate an understanding of purpose and audience in their writing.
- 5.2.c. Students will gather and organize information from two sources using two electronic sources, or one electronic source and a hard copy informational text.
- 5.2.d. Students will write pieces using four genre. (Narrative, descriptive, expository, persuasive.) Students will use rubrics and performance levels of writing.
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