4th/5th Academy - 5th Grade

Mike Hedges - Teacher

Jennifer Shaw - Teacher

Brian Holcombe - Teacher

Math - Students will:

Read, write, and order numbers through the billions period.

Read, write, and order decimals through the thousandths.

Be able to recite commonly used addition, subtraction, multiplication, and division facts.

Be able to demonstrate the commutative, associative, and zero properties for addition and multiplication.

Add and subtract whole numbers to the hundred thousands place value.

Add and subtract decimals to the thousandths.

Analyze and solve problems using various skills and strategies.

Multiply by two-digit numbers.

Divide by two digit divisors.

Understand and demonstrate the use of the mean, median, range, and mode.

Conversions of customary units to and from metric units.

Use probability in everyday life situations.

Be able to use a variety of tools for measurement.

Estimate to determine if an answer is reasonable.

Reading Students will:

Use inference, main idea, context clues, mental images, fact and opinion, and cause and effect to comprehend all genres of reading.

Summarize passages focusing on characters, plot, setting, mood, conflict, and resolution.

Read with fluency and appropriate expression.

Locate various types from different media and technological resources.

Writing - Students will:

Use a variety of topic sentences in writing.

Be able to use descriptive, persuasive, expository, and narrative forms of writing.

Use the writing process of planning, rough draft, revising and editing, final draft and sharing written works.

Use the Step Up to Writing organizational strategies to structure their writing.

Begin to use The Six Traits of Writing in their own works (Conventions or grammar, Sentence Fluency, Organization, Voice, Word Choice, and Ideas and Content.

Science – students will:

Build a model ecosystem to study the interdependence of living and non-living organisms.

Study landforms to understand the effects of erosion and deposition. 

Study and construct topographic maps of various landforms.

Investigate the properties of levers and study the implications they have in our lives.

Social Studies – students will:

Research the contributions European Explorers had in developing the Americas.

Study the geography of the great lakes of the world, the Americas, Russia, and Feudal Japan.

Research the cultures and various conflicts of Native Americans.

Study Meso-American civilizations.

Study the westward expansion before/after the Civil War.

Research the causes, conflicts, and consequences of the Civil War.

Study the history and culture of Russia and Feudal Japan.