Social & Emotional Learning The Needham Public Schools are engaged in improving social and emotional learning (SEL) for all students. SEL is the process through which children develop skills for decision-making, communication, cooperation, conflict resolution, problem solving, and developing healthy relationships for work and play. The school system has adopted The Responsive Classroom program as the basis for its K-5 social and emotional learning. It is based on principals of child development, explicit teaching of social as well as academic skills and the facilitation of positive community membership. The program increases social skills and academic engagement, establishes positive classroom climate, increases learner investment and independence, and decreases disruptive behaviors. At Grade Five, students will:

• Identify observed emotions in self and others • Discontinue emotional expression that seems to upset others • Set goals • Anticipate consequences • Show ability to be a member of a group • Accept failure or frustration and continue effort • Listen carefully • Admit mistakes and apologize when appropriate • Competently deal with gossip and teasing • Identify strategies for coping with strong emotions

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Dr. Theresa Duggan Director of Student Learning

Phone: 781.455.0400 x240 terry_duggan@needham.k12.ma.us

Daniel E. Gutekanst, Ed.D. Superintendent of Schools

GRADE 5

CURRICULUM SUMMARY

NEEDHAM PUBLIC SCHOOLS

NEEDHAM PUBLIC SCHOOLS 1330 Highland Avenue Needham, MA 02492

781.455.0400

Spanish Language & Culture • Understand and produce memorized vocabulary and familiar expressions from grades one through four with increased confidence, comprehensibility, and flexibility • Understand and produce memorized vocabulary and formulaic expressions related to: the classroom, class schedules, telling time, a weather forecast, and eating together • Communicate aspects of what they like to do and describe themselves • Engage in conversational exchanges on familiar topics • Demonstrate awareness, curiosity and appreciation for different cultures

Physical Education • Accept, recognize, and actively involve others with both higher and lower skill abilities into physical activities and group projects • Develop and demonstrate a gymnastics sequence that includes a minimum of five gymnastics skills • Demonstrate the ability to throw a ball overhand in a game situation using proper form • Volley a ball (overhead) to a partner in a modified game • Volley a ball to a partner using a forearm pass in a modified game • Strike a moving ball with a bat or hockey stick using proper form

Science Students explore the big ideas of life, physical, and earth science through an inquiry-based, hands on approach. Students study:

• Weather & Water (Earth Science) • The Marvelous Majority & The Bony Bunch (Life Science) • Simple Machines & Rube Goldberg Design Challenge (Physical Science)

Live animals, outdoor field trips and special programs provided by the Science Center serve to enhance the hands-on experience.

Social Studies Students learn about geography and engage in inquiry-based social studies as they study the following units:

• Immigration and Industrial Revolution • Westward Movement • American Revolution • Key Events Leading to the Civil War • U.S. Government

Art • Use shading to create three-dimensional forms • Create a linoleum print • Use collage to create personal expression • Use texture and pattern to enhance a three- dimensional form • Demonstrate working with painting techniques • Create a 3-D form for self-expression

Music • Demonstrate more refined vocal production • Recognize adult vocal ranges through the study of opera • Sing and play music using dynamics and tempi as expressive tools • Listen to and analyze music for expressive purpose and form • Compose music within specified guidelines • Participate in chorus rehearsals concerts • Evaluate personal music performance in aural and written form String Ensemble or Band may be elected in grade 5

Reading • Participate in book discussion with partners, small groups, and whole class • Read text with fluency and expression • Use multiple strategies to determine word meaning • Understand the connotations of words and figurative language • Read for insight, pleasure, information • Gather, take notes, organize and synthesize relevant information • Use comprehension strategies to deepen understanding • Read to acquire information • Apply comprehension strategies to content area • Increase knowledge of word structure and vocabulary

Writing • Use the writing process including drafting, revising, editing, and publishing • Use graphic organizers to plan writing • Select appropriate genres for different writing purposes • Consider audience and purpose for writing • Use conventional spelling • Use mentor text to learn crafting techniques • Write with voice • Use research skills to support informational writing

A community and school partnership that creates excited learners, inspires excellence, fosters integrity

Library & Digital Learning • Identify point of view and genres in literature • Refine creation of work, especially in cloud-based system, including multimedia projects • Read a variety of literature genres, particularly historical fiction • Cite sources from print and electronic • Use specified search engines and directories and access sources • Use a variety of reference tools • Define and identify specific cyberbullying challenges that occur in school or online • Further refine understanding of Digital Citizenship

Mathematics • Write and interpret numerical expressions • Analyze patterns and relationships • Understand the place value system • Perform operations with multi-digit whole numbers and with decimals to hundredths • Use equivalent fractions as a strategy to add and subtract fractions • Apply and extend previous understandings of multiplication and division to multiplication and divide fractions • Gain familiarity with concepts of positive and negative integers • Convert like measurement units within a given measurement system • Represent and interpret data • Understand concepts of volume • Graph points on the coordinate plane • Classify two-dimensional figures