JANUARY/FEBRUARY SYLLABUS
Reading
Social Studies
Reading
Writing
Science
SEPTEMBER/OCTOBER SYLLABUS
Reading
• I can determine the theme of a story using details or characters actions.
• I can compare and contrast characters, setting, or events.
• I can summarize a piece of informational text.
• I can specifically identify which reasons an author used to support points.
Writing
• I can write for different purposes, audiences, and topics.
• I can edit and revise my writing with peers and teachers.
• I can write an informative piece, which examines a topic and conveys ideas.
• I can use evidence from informational text to support analysis, reflection, and research in my writing.
Math
• I can understand the place value system and use it to explain the value of digits and patterns.
• I can perform operations with multi digit whole numbers and with decimals.
• I can divide four-digit dividends by two digit divisors and understand that fractions are really the division of a numerator by the denominator.
• I can explain the value understanding to round decimals to any place.
• I can use place value understate round decimals to any place.
• I can add, subtract, multiply and divide decimals to the hundredths.
Science
• I can identify questions, design and conduct a scientific investigation to answer those questions.
• I can employ tools to gather, analyze, and conduct a scientific investigation to answer those questions.
• I can use data to construct reasonable explanations.
Social Studies
• I can locate place is the Western Hemisphere using maps and globes.
• I can compare and contrast native societies and their social, economic, and political structures.
• I can compare and contrast the past and present geography of the Americas.
Magnet –
• I can locate places on a world map and globe.
• I can identify and describe the geography of places including landforms and bodies of water.
• I can compare and contrast native societies and their social, economic, and political structures.
Reading
- I can use specific quotes from a text when drawing inferences and explaining what a text says specifically.
- I can complete multiple choice responses to show comprehension of literature and informational text appropriate for fifth grade.
- I can determine the meaning of words and phrases based on how they are used in a text.
- I can summarize a story, drama, or poem.
- I can write a narrative fiction piece.
- I can edit and revise my writing with peers and teachers.
- I can use provided sources to find information, take notes on sources and use the information to create an informative poster.
- I can write a response to text in short form and an extended essay format.
- I can divide decimals to the hundredths and explain patterns in the number of zeros of the quotient when dividing a number by powers of 10.
- I can add and subtract fractions and mixed numbers with unlike denominators.
- I can write fractions in simplest form
- I can multiply a fraction or whole number by a fraction.
- I can describe the movement of matter among producers, consumers, decomposers and the environment.
- I can describe how matter and energy interact in earth’s systems.
- I can develop a model to describe ways the geosphere, hydrosphere and /or atmosphere interact.
- I can use the scientific method to complete a project on a chosen topic.
Social Studies
- I can describe the reasons for exploration of the Western Hemisphere
- I can list the improvements in navigation that helped sailors make long ocean voyages
- I can locate and describe the routes of European explorers
- I can identify the reasons for the destruction of the Incan and Aztec empires
- I can analyze major events and motives in the colonization of Latin America
- I can study the scientific and social problems of The Bahamas and plan solutions through S.T.E.M. methods.
Reading
- I can use questioning to make sense of expository text.
- I can use text features to better understand an expository text.
- I can explore an ethical issue in the text.
- I can identify narrative text structure, including character, setting, plot, and conflict.
- I can determine whether questions are answered explicitly or implicitly.
Writing
- I can write an informative piece, which examines a topic and conveys ideas.
- I can use provided sources to find information, take notes on sources, and categorize my notes.
- I can write a real or imagined narrative piece with descriptive details.
- I can edit and revise my writing with peers and teachers.
- I can multiply decimals to the hundredths and explain patterns in the number of zeros of the product when multiplying a number by powers of 10.
- I can divide whole numbers by 2 digit divisors.
- I can make sense of multi-step word problems.
Science
- I can use models to describe that energy in animals’ food was once energy from the sun.
- I can support an argument that plants get the materials they need from air and water.
- I can describe the movement of matter among producers, consumers, decomposers and the environment.
- I can explain how the Ice Age may have made possible the first migrations into North America.
- I can describe how the first Americans lived.
- I can describe the various elements of a culture and explain the importance of each.
- I can compare and contrast the Mayan, Aztec, and Incan civilizations.
- I can describe the culture of the Bahamas including music, art, holidays and food.
SEPTEMBER/OCTOBER SYLLABUS
Reading
• I can determine the theme of a story using details or characters actions.
• I can compare and contrast characters, setting, or events.
• I can summarize a piece of informational text.
• I can specifically identify which reasons an author used to support points.
Writing
• I can write for different purposes, audiences, and topics.
• I can edit and revise my writing with peers and teachers.
• I can write an informative piece, which examines a topic and conveys ideas.
• I can use evidence from informational text to support analysis, reflection, and research in my writing.
Math
• I can understand the place value system and use it to explain the value of digits and patterns.
• I can perform operations with multi digit whole numbers and with decimals.
• I can divide four-digit dividends by two digit divisors and understand that fractions are really the division of a numerator by the denominator.
• I can explain the value understanding to round decimals to any place.
• I can use place value understate round decimals to any place.
• I can add, subtract, multiply and divide decimals to the hundredths.
Science
• I can identify questions, design and conduct a scientific investigation to answer those questions.
• I can employ tools to gather, analyze, and conduct a scientific investigation to answer those questions.
• I can use data to construct reasonable explanations.
Social Studies
• I can locate place is the Western Hemisphere using maps and globes.
• I can compare and contrast native societies and their social, economic, and political structures.
• I can compare and contrast the past and present geography of the Americas.
Magnet –
• I can locate places on a world map and globe.
• I can identify and describe the geography of places including landforms and bodies of water.
• I can compare and contrast native societies and their social, economic, and political structures.