Language Arts 

• Through the literary elements of fiction, traditional literature, poetry, biography and non-fiction, children will experience a wide range of instructional activities in listening, reading, writing, discussing and/or speaking.

Reading

• Construct meaning from print and pictures 
• Use cueing strategies; phonetic, picture and context 
• Make connections to themselves, their experiences and books 
• Predict, recall and summarize stories, information and experiences 
• Identify character, setting, plot, and problem/solution 
• Expand vocabulary and multiple word meanings 
• Recall and retell information from text 
• Identify and interpret new words using a variety of strategies 
• Use reference texts to clarify and extend word meaning 
• Anticipate by previewing, predicting, and asking questions 
• Compare similar elements in different stories 
• Recognize structure of story 
• Respond in oral and written form to material read 
• Expand and apply a repertoire of reading strategies 

Listening and Speaking

• Retell story with details 
• Express feelings 
• Participate in classroom discussions 
• Retell and react to stories 
• Follow more complex instructions, written and oral 
• Listen attentively to speaker 
• Develop and expand vocabulary by speaking and listening using correct grammar 
• Contribute to group discussions 
• Begin to organize oral presentations 

Writing 

• Use cursive handwriting skills 
• Use standard spelling 
• Use pictures or words to develop topic 
• Revise to improve to improve content, grammar, and sentence structure 
• Use varied sentence structure and expand with descriptive words 
• Consider word choice 
• Demonstrate logical flow 
• Use time order transitions and paragraphs (first, the next day, in summer) 
• Begin to use logical and time order transitions between and within paragraphs 
• Support ideas with specific details and second order support 
• Provide support and elaboration with details 
• Use capitalization and punctuation 
• Demonstrate correct language mechanics 
• Write independently

• Investigate arrangements of objects and pictures for large numbers to illustrate thousands; connect to four-digit, place value notation 
• Use regrouping and renaming of objects to represent problem-solving situations involving addition and subtraction with two and three-digit numbers 
• Continue to investigate lines of symmetry with paper folding, mirrors, or completing a drawing 
• Investigate the number relations and number patterns of days in each month, days in a year, and months in a year 
• Investigate values, quantities, equivalency and number patterns with pennies, nickels, dimes, quarters, half-dollars and dollars 
• Investigate various ways of organizing data from real life, especially through categorizing 

• Describe how the parts of a plant work together as a system 
• Predict patterns of change in the plant life cycle 
• Identify plant adaptations and describe their functions 
• Identify forces as pushes and pulls and gravity as a pull force 
• Describe how simple machines help us do work 
• Describe the properties of light 
• Identify characteristics of the solar system. 
• Identify likenesses and differences in planets and describe how these impact their orbits 
• Ask questions, make observations, conduct investigations, arrange data, and describe patterns using scientific method 
• Use tools of technology to do work and the design process to solve problems 

Social Studies 

• Comprehend how people learn and work together 
• Understand different types of communities 
• Learn about farms, factories and trading 
• Gain knowledge about our country, its capital and government 
• Develop basic understanding of world citizenship and respecting others 
• Learn about celebrations of American history and around the world 
• Use maps, atlases and globes 

World Languages 
By the end of fifth grade, students will: 

• Comprehend written classroom directions, illustrated stories, gestures and body language often used in everyday interaction in the target language 
• Follow instructions in the target language. 
• Pose questions spontaneously in structured situations 
• Produce language using proper pronunciation, intonation and inflection. 
• Decode new vocabulary 
• Write on familiar topics 
• Use maps, charts, digital images, graphs and other geographic representations to describe and discuss the countries where the target language is spoken 
• Identify products that are from the countries where the target language is spoken and that are found in the United States economy 
• Use the target language to participate in and/or describe games, dances and sports. 
• Use the target language to describe activities and characteristics of selected occupations and work places 

Physical Education/Wellness 
Students will have instructional and physical activities in: 

• Movement skills 
• Low organized games 
• Rhythmic activities 
• Gymnastics and tumbling 
• Basic individual sport skills 
• Basic dual sport related activities 
• Basic team sports 
• Fitness education 
• Social/emotional growth 

Health
By the end of fifth grade, students will: 

• Classify major body parts and functions of the body systems 
• Compare and contrast effects of healthy/unhealthy life styles 
• Summarize the principles of good nutrition, exercise and rest 
• Promote healthy body and self-concept 
• Implement a personal exercise/activity plan 
• Demonstrate basic procedures for responding to emergency and life safety issues 

General Music
Students will have instructional and experiential activities in: 

• Interactive listening process involving music perception, cognition, analysis and evaluation resulting in aesthetic awareness 
• Personal experiential interaction with music through singing, playing, performing, and moving 
• Creative composition/arranging for organized sound designed to express feelings 
• Spontaneous creation of original music 
• Formal/constructive elements of music theory, vocabulary, syntax, and symbolic representations of music 
• Historical, social and cultural context for musical insight 

Fine Arts 

• Recognize, identify, and demonstrate an understanding of the sensory elements and organizational principles of design as well as the expressive qualities of the visual arts 
• Recognize, identify, and demonstrate the basic use of materials and tools in order to understand how works of art are produced 
• Create individual works of visual art 
• Understand that works of art shape, reflect and play a role in societies, cultures, and civilizations, past and present