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5th Grade Curriculum

5th Grade Curriculum





 
Curriculum Overview

Your Enthusiasm + Your Effort 

= Your Effect on Your World

"Enthusiasm is one of the most powerful engines

of success.  When you do a thing, do it with your

might.  Put your whole soul into it.  Stamp it

with your own personality.  Be active, be energetic,

be enthusiastic and faithful, and you will

and you will

accomplish your goal."   

  ----Ralph Waldo Emerson

  
We have an exciting year ahead of us and to ensure that your child receives the best learning experience, I have posted this communication to you.  Communication between home and school is vital to your child's success in the classroom.  I will send home bi-monthly student bulletins, make personal phone calls and will try to include parents as much as possible in the learning process.
   

As a classroom teacher, I am more effective if I can work with the parents.  My goal is to always keep you informed of your child's progress and needs.  Please keep me informed of important information that can help me better serve your child.

I look forward to meeting all of you and working with you through the coming year.


This list is just a broad overview of what we will be learning about this year.  For more in-depth information about our curriculum, check out the links to our state standards below.


                                                          

  • Houghton Mifflin Language Arts/Reading series
  • Readers Workshop
  • Literature Circles
  • Literature logs
  • ReadingPlus - intervention program
  • "Ticket to Read" computer incentive comprehension program


 

                                                      

  • Spelling as part of the Houghton Mifflin Reading program
  • Spelling list comes home every week
  • Spelling test on Friday
  • Spelling word patterns practiced as part of literacy objectives.


 

                                                         

  • 6 Trait Writing - ideas, organization, word choice, conventions, voice, and presentation.
  • Variety of Genres - narrative, informative, expository, descriptive, and poetry.
  • Writing assessed using 6 Trait rubric and district rubric


 

                                                           

  • Everday Mathematics
  • Investigations Series (TERC)
  • Math4Today
  • Fact practice worksheets and timed tests
  • Math Wall
  • Algebra/Measurement/Geometry by Carole Greenes
  • **Cognitive Guided Instruction**


 

History/SS                                       

  • Regions and geography of the USA
  • Native Americans of the USA
  • Colonialism - Westward Movement (Lewis and Clark)
  • American Revolution
  • Consititution


 

                                                           

Science at Palmquist is hands-on and experiential. We use FOSS science kits.

  • Mixtures and Solutions
  • Water Planet
  • Human and Plant Systems
  • Seeds of Science - Solar System (Lawrence Hall of Science Pilot Unit)


 



Related Links

    I Have - Who Has
    From Mrs. Jenson's site - math decimals, colonial vocabulary, etc.



Mrs. Acosta - Fifth Grade
Oceanside Unified School District
Palmquist Elementary
1999 California Street
Oceanside, CA 92054


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