WELCOME to

5H
Curriculum Night
 Literacy
Balanced Literacy Program
•Guided Reading
•Harcourt Anthology / Supplemental Materials
With specific focus on:
Word Building Grammar
Vocabulary Fluency
Comprehension
•1 story per week, tests on last day of week
•Independent Reading / response journals
•Read Alouds
Spelling & Writing
•Individualized spelling lists
•Pretest Friday
•Posttest Friday
•Contracts due Friday *

•Modes: narrative/memoir, personal

expository, book review, op/ed, poetry
•Throughout the year we teach revision and
editing as an ongoing process and assessment
•6 Traits of Writing
•Organization Voice
•Word choice Ideas/Content
•Sentence fluency Conventions
 Science
Overarching Theme:
The Scientific Process
•Intro to scientific method (bridges)
•Health and Digestion (human body)
•Weather (astronomy)
•Small Life (biology)
•Atoms, Magnetism, Electricity (physics)
•Suns and the universe (astronomy)
 Social Studies
• Overview / review • Life in a new nation
• Early life – land • A growing nation
bridge • Civil War
• Exploration • Reconstruction
• Colonial life • The U.S. and the
• American Revolution world, 20th and 21st
century
Extra Curricular
•Choir/Band/Orchestra
•Do Something
•Book Clubs
•Intramurals
 Miscellaneous
• Parent-teacher • Assignment notebooks
communication – Everyday
– BLOG * Organization / accordion
– Email, phone, notes files
– Signatures Focus on independence
– Conferences * Homework
missing homework form
* Calls home? *Tests and Projects
lunch: YES study guides, rubrics
instrument: YES parent signatures
homework: NO
*Hygiene
Questions/Comments
•375-3227 Classroom
•375-3200 School
•LibbyHenderson@comcast.net or
Libby_Henderson@ipsd.org
Classroom Wish List

• Baby Wipes
• Rubber Cement
• Construction
paper (white)
• Post-it notes
 Fifth Grade MATH
Math class will continue with the Everyday Math program
at grade level. Fifth grade math focuses heavily on the
ability to solve problems. Math instruction is multi-
dimensional with continued use of manipulatives, as
appropriate, to enhance concept development.

Otter Creek Math: an everyday, fast-facts method of

practice and assessment.
YOU can help by practicing math facts at home!
 MATHEMATICS
Fifth Grade MATH
*flexible groupings at the 5th grade level

• Major content areas are:

– Operations number facts, order relations, and number
systems – review of algorithms and procedures for
addition, subtraction, multiplication and division of whole
numbers, and computation of decimals and fractions
– Measurement – customary and metric
– Geometry and spatial sense – lines, angles, congruence,
coordinate systems, reference frames, shapes and
solids, area, perimeter and volume
– Sequences, patterns and functions – classifications,
missing elements, variables
– Statistics – tables, graphs, probability, mean, median,
mode, and range
– Algebra – use of variables, exponents/square roots