Welcome to Fifth Grade!
***Special Note: During our remote learning time, my students will find all suggested and required classwork on their Google classroom page.***
Welcome to A307 and your fifth grade year!
My philosophy in the classroom is simple: our room will be a fear-free, positive place where learning is engaging and challenging but as fun as possible. I believe that learning and laughter can most certainly go hand-in-hand. In our classroom, we will treat each other at all times with kindness and respect.
Fifth grade is a busy year with so much to cover. Our work in Language Arts will include reading, writing, spelling, vocabulary, and grammar, as well as listening and discussion skills. Our vocabulary and spelling lessons will be based on the grade 5 Wordly Wise book. For reading instruction, we will be follow a Reader's Workshop model in which students choose the novels they read to match their interests and reading level. Students will work on summarizing what they've read and responding to various literary elements in their reader's notebooks. We will also be working a lot with non-fiction text over the course of the year. Writing will be incorporated across the curriculum. You will write often, both critically and creatively. We will practice open responses, persuasive essays, short stories, plays, and poetry. It is through these writing sessions that we will work on the grammar and mechanics behind good writing as well as the importance of word choice and developing our own written "voice."
My philosophy in the classroom is simple: our room will be a fear-free, positive place where learning is engaging and challenging but as fun as possible. I believe that learning and laughter can most certainly go hand-in-hand. In our classroom, we will treat each other at all times with kindness and respect.
Fifth grade is a busy year with so much to cover. Our work in Language Arts will include reading, writing, spelling, vocabulary, and grammar, as well as listening and discussion skills. Our vocabulary and spelling lessons will be based on the grade 5 Wordly Wise book. For reading instruction, we will be follow a Reader's Workshop model in which students choose the novels they read to match their interests and reading level. Students will work on summarizing what they've read and responding to various literary elements in their reader's notebooks. We will also be working a lot with non-fiction text over the course of the year. Writing will be incorporated across the curriculum. You will write often, both critically and creatively. We will practice open responses, persuasive essays, short stories, plays, and poetry. It is through these writing sessions that we will work on the grammar and mechanics behind good writing as well as the importance of word choice and developing our own written "voice."
In social studies we will be studying American History from the colonization of the New World through the Civil War. The major units we will be studying are Colonization of the New World, Colonial Life, the French and Indian War, the American Revolution including the Creation of a New Government, Westward Expansion, and causes and consequences of the Civil War. We will use the text History Alive (link can be found under social studies websites), but we will really be digging into the material through lively discussions, sources on our classroom set of Kindles, hands-on activities, debates, research projects, and field trips. We will also take breaks from studying the past with the help of Newsela.com, a current events/reading comprehension website.
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