Fifth Grade Learning Objectives:

Language Arts

Your student will:

• Read with sufficient accuracy and fluency to support comprehension.

• Determine the meaning of words and phrases in a text relevant to a grade 5 topic or subject area.

• Summarize a text.

• Determine main ideas and key details of a text.

• Write narratives, informative/explanatory texts, and opinion pieces.

• Use writing traits: ideas, organization, voice, word choice, sentence fluency, and conventions.

• Use the writing process: drafting, editing/revising, publishing.

• Use correct conventions in all writing (capitalization, punctuation, spelling, verb tenses).

• Engage in discussions

 

Math

Your student will:

• Read, write, order, and compare whole numbers through billions and decimals to thousandths.

• Add and subtract decimals through thousandths.

• Recall multiplication and division facts.

• Multiply 2-digit numbers.

• Read, write, order, and compare fractions.

• Identify polygons.

• Use and convert customary/metric measures.

• Collect, interpret, and display data.

 

Science

Your student will:

• Use the scientific method and develop critical thinking skills.

• Identify and describe the parts of plant and animal cells.

• Compare and contrast elements, compounds, and physical/chemical changes.

• Describe the process of photosynthesis.

• Understand the rock cycle.

• Describe the physical and mental effects of tobacco, alcohol, and drugs.

 

Social Studies

• Your student will:

• Extend knowledge of map skills.

• Describe the impact of early European explorers.

• Identify and describe the 13 colonies.

• Explain how the United States formed.

• Recall the 50 states and capitals.