Curriculum NightOctober 3, 2013

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LITERACY

Balanced Approach to Literacy

The balanced literacy approach includes several components of reading. These components include:* word study* interactive read alouds* independent reading (based on independent reading levels)* book clubs* skills and strategies* conferencing

It is our goal to provide our students withrich literature that will create a passion forreading and writing.

 WRITING

Clarification

Persuasive

Argumentative Research projects

Poetry

Writing is across the curriculum: science, social studies and math.

SOCIAL STUDIES

Social Studies is integrated with literacy this year. We use a social studies book entitled Social Studies Alive!

We will be covering from pre-Columbian times to the American Civil war.

ScienceScience is an EOG for fifth grade.

Students receive science instruction five times a week.

We are integrating science informational texts into our literacy block.

Please check out the school website for a full list of science vocabulary.

Forces and MotionMatterEnergyWeather/ClimateHuman BodyEcosystemsEvolution/Genetics

Units of study

MATH

We are using the Investigations program.

Curriculum:* Multiplication and Division

* Fractions (major focus in 5th grade)

* Decimals

* Volume

* Geometry (minor focus this year)

* Graphing/Ordered Pairs

The sum of the digits is 7.This number is a multiple of 8

This number of tiles will make a square.This number is less than 45.

NUMBER PUZZLES

CLUE 1 CLUE 2

CLUE 3 CLUE 4