Curriculum Night

1. Curriculum Night 2012-2013

2. Welcome! I. Welcome to the 5th Grade! • Last Year in elementary school II. Rules and Procedures • Name in the book/Discipline Notes/ Emails/Phone Calls III. Homework • Planners—write their homework down daily • Accelerated Reader—point and percentage goal. This will count as two grades at the end of the quarter. IV. Class Expectations: Folders, Accordions, and Notebooks V. Grading: Parent Assistant • parents.cms.k12.nc.us VI. Communication • Tuesday folders (Please sign and return papers) • Newsletters, emails, phone calls, etc. lorrainec.mcelrath@cms.k12.nc.us • Planners • Wiki: http://mcelrath.cmswiki.wikispaces.net/

3. What is the Common Core? • The Common Core State Standards (CCSS) are a big deal! • Adopted by 45 states so far. • Reform of K-12 curriculum. • Affects what is published, mandated and tested. • Emphasizes • Higher comprehension skills • Problem solving through collaboration • Deeper comprehension • Explanation of problem solving through writing across the curriculum

4. Math Mathematical Practices • 1. Make sense of problems and persevere in solving them. • 2. Reason abstractly and quantitatively. • 3. Construct viable arguments and critique the reasoning of others. • 4. Model with mathematics. • 5. Use appropriate tools strategically. • 6. Attend to precision. • 7. Look for and make use of structure. • 8. Look for and express regularity in repeated reasoning.

5. Math Continued Operations and Algebraic Thinking • • Write and interpret numerical expressions. • • Analyze patterns and relationships. Number and Operations in Base Ten • • Understand the place value system. • • Perform operations with multi-digit whole numbers and with decimals to hundredths. Number and Operations—Fractions • • Use equivalent fractions as a strategy to add and subtract fractions. • • Apply and extend previous understandings of multiplication and division to multiply and divide fractions. Measurement and Data • • Convert like measurement units within a given measurement system. • • Represent and interpret data. • • Geometric measurement: understand concepts of volume and relate volume to multiplication and to addition. Geometry • • Graph points on the coordinate plane to solve real-world and mathematical problems. • • Classify two-dimensional figures into categories based on their properties.

6. Reading Units / Themes • Native Americans • Natural Disasters • Rain Forest / Ecosystems • Making a New Nation • People Making a Difference • Heritage / Family • Civil Rights • Folklore / Myths Key Ideas and Details • 1. Read closely to make logical inferences cite specific textual evidence when writing or speaking to support conclusions drawn from the text. • 2. Determine central ideas or themes of a text and analyze their development; summarize the key supporting details and ideas. • 3. Analyze how and why individuals, events, and ideas develop and interact over the course of a text.

7. Reading Continued: Craft and Structure • 4. Interpret words and phrases as they are used in a text, including determining technical, connotative, and figurative meanings, and analyze how specific word choices shape meaning or tone. • 5. Analyze the structure of texts, including how specific sentences, paragraphs, and larger portions of the text (e.g.,a section, chapter, scene, or stanza) relate to each other and the whole. • 6. Assess how point of view or purpose shapes the content and style of a text. Integration of Knowledge and Ideas • 7. Integrate and evaluate content presented in diverse media and formats, including visually and quantitatively, as well as in words. • 8. Delineate and evaluate the argument and specific claims in a text, including the validity of the reasoning as well as the relevance and sufficiency of the evidence. • 9. Analyze how two or more texts address similar themes or topics in order to build knowledge or to compare the approaches the authors take. Range of Reading and Level of Text Complexity • 10. Read and comprehend complex literary and informational texts independently and proficiently.

8. Language Students will demonstrate command of the conventions of Standard English language when writing or speaking: • Conjunctions • Prepositions • Interjections • Perfect Verb Tense (I had walked; I have walked; I will have walked) • Capitalization • Punctuation • Spelling grade appropriate words correctly • Comma to set off the words yes and no (Yes, thank you), to set off a tag question from the rest of the sentence (It’s true, isn’t it?), and to indicate direct address (Is that you, Steve?) • Use Underlining, quotation marks, or italics • Students will use Knowledge of Language and its conventions when writing, speaking, reading, or listening by: • Expanding, combining, and reducing sentences for meaning • Compare and Contrast the varieties of English used in stories, dramas, or poems

9. Writing Write arguments to support a position using valid reasoning and sufficient evidence. • Opinion clearly stated, structure established • Logically ordered reasons supported by facts and details • Link opinions and reasons using transitional words • Provide concluding statement Write informative/explanatory texts to examine and explain complex information. • Topic clearly introduced using logical formatting • Provide facts, definitions, concrete details, quotations, etc. • Link ideas using words, phrases and clauses • Use precise language and domain-specific vocabulary • Provide a concluding statement Write narratives to develop real or imagined experiences or events. • Establish a situation and introduce a narrator and/or Characters; organize a natural event sequence • Use dialogue, description, and pacing to develop experience, events, or character responses • Use transitional words, phrases, and clauses • Use concrete words, phrases, and sensory details • Provide a conclusion

10. Writing Continued: Writers will also: • Plan, revise, edit, rewrite or try a new approach to develop and strengthen writing • Use technology to produce and publish writing • Conduct short research projects using several sources • Recall relevant information from experiences or from print and digital sources, summarize then provide a list of sources • Draw evidence from literary and informational texts • Write over extended or short time for a range of discipline-specific tasks, purposes, or audiences

11. Vocabulary Students will determine or clarify the meaning of unknown and multiple-meaning words and phrases based on grade 5 reading and content by: • Using Context as a clue to the meaning of a word or phrase • Using common, grade appropriate Greek and Latin affixes and roots as clues to the meaning of the word (photograph, photosynthesis) • Consult reference materials  both print and digital, to find the pronunciation and determine or clarify the precise meaning of key words and phrases (dictionaries, glossaries, thesauruses) • Figurative Language (similes and metaphors) • Explain the meaning of common idioms, adages, and proverbs • Use the relationship between particular words to better understand each of the words (synonyms, antonyms, homographs) • Use Domain specific words and phrases, including those that signal contrast, addition, and other logical relationships (however, although, nevertheless, similarly, moreover, in addition) 

12. Science • Weather (forecasting the weather using instruments and clouds, jet stream, El, La Nina, daily and seasonal changes in weather, water cycle) • Ecosystems (food chains, food webs, compare ecosystems, classify organisms by their job i.e. decomposer, relationships between plants and animals) • Interactions of Matter and the Changes that Occur • Heating and Cooling (transfer of heat, convection, conduction, radiation) • Force and Motion (force, position, gravity, how mass affects an object) • Body Systems Circulatory System (Heart, blood, vessels) Respiratory System (nose, trachea, lungs) Skeletal System (bones) Muscular System (muscles) Digestive System (mouth, esophagus, stomach, intestines) Nervous System (brain, spinal cord, nerves) • RHASE (Reproductive System) • Genetics (how some likenesses are inherited and others are not, how an organism is similar/different than its parent)

13. Social Studies Students will analyze the chronology of key events in the United States: • Native Americans • European Explorers • Early colonies and 13 Colonies • Revolutionary War and the formation of the Constitution • War of 1812 • Westward Expansion • Slavery • Industrial Revolution • Civil War • Reconstruction

14. Social Studies Continued: Recurring themes throughout the year will include: • Utilizing map skills • Comparing primary and secondary documents • Drawing parallels between current events and historical events • Exploring the contributions of diverse groups in the building of our nation • Analyzing migration and immigration • Determining the positive and negative impacts of human activities on the physical environment of the U.S. • Explaining how the physical environment influenced human activities • Building on knowledge of economics by focusing on economic growth and principals in various cultures • Citizenship

15. Music • Mrs. Hofmann is your child's music teacher this year. • Please visit her web page:  http://noreenhofmann.cmswiki.wikispaces.net/ • Click the NC Essential Standards for Music link to learn about your child's music curriculum for this year.  Also, have your child explore the music links page for fun! • A note from Mrs. Hofmann:I won't be able to see you personally on curriculum night, so I'm available to talk to you about the music curriculum on the following dates/times: Mon., Sept. 24 at 9:00 am in M 1114 orWed., Sept. 26 at 8:00 am in M 1114Thanks! It's my pleasure to work with you and your child at Bain!