1. Welcome to Curriculum Night
5th Grade
Santan Elementary

2. ELA – English Language Arts
Instruction
ELA(English Language Arts) Common Core - This year, we will be focusing on Common Core Language Arts Standards. We will be focusing on various skills in four major categories: Reading, Writing, Speaking & Listening, and Language. These components will also be incorporated in science and social studies.
Journeys Reading Series
Skills taught in isolation or in conjunction with other academic skills
Literature Groups/Circles
Independent and Partner Reading
On-going assessments for comprehension and fluency
Vocabulary, comprehension, & fluency development

3. ELA – English Language Arts
Skills
Narrative Elements Prefixes and Suffixes
Cause and Effect Drawing Conclusions
Sequencing Locating Information
Elements of Non-Fiction Text Structure
Word Relationships Main Idea and Details
Summarizing Literature Fact and Opinion
Author’s Purpose Compare/Contrast
Inferencing

4. Spelling / Grammar Spelling Grammar
Santan 5th grade No Excuse Spelling List
Spelling specific to fifth grade standards
Content related words
Spelling in conjunction with our Journeys reading program
Grammar
Modeling through mini-lessons via Journeys and other resources
Daily grammar review
Application in every day writing

5. Writing
6+1 Traits Writing Process / Write From the Beginning (focusing on thinking maps) Genres of writing Opinion Essays Informative/Explanatory Essays Narrative Essays Research Essays

6. What is an Interactive Notebook?
These personal, creative notebooks become a record of each student’s growth in writing, thinking, recording, and organization skills. You may see these notebooks created in Math, ELA, Social Studies and Science.

7. Math Some concepts covered in math this year:
The overall goal within the curricular area of mathematics is for students to have a not just a basic knowledge of each concept that they learn, but for them to apply it with a certain depth of knowledge. Due to this, students will be required to solve more detailed questions and problems.
Some concepts covered in math this year:
Multiplication & Division
Fractions
Addition & Subtraction
Converting
Word Problems
Decimals
Measurement
Geometry
Volume
Graphing on a coordinate plane
Order of Operations
For more information, visit the Arizona Department of Education or Chandler Unified School District website to see more about standards changes.
Arizona Department of Education
Chandler Unified School District
www,cusd80.com

8. Building Mathematical Foundations Across K-12

9. Social Studies Geography The 50 States Explorers
American Colonization and the Thirteen Colonies
American Revolution
Westward Expansion
Foundations of Government
Civil War
Economics

10. Some science topics we will be covering this year are:
States of Matter
Forces and Motion
Science & Technology in Society
The Human Body
The Inquiry Process
Solar System
Science as a Human Endeavor
Environmental Impact of Natural Disasters
Science Fair:
We will begin work on the science fair in December and will wrap up at the beginning of the 3rd quarter.
Science fair topics must be based on a 5th grade science concept.

11. Daily Binders
Students have received a daily binder that they will use to organize all of their work throughout the year.
Binders include agendas, STORM reports, goals and homework.
STORM reports are filled out on Friday to be signed and returned on Monday.

12. Communication
Frequent s Students will fill out their agendas each day. This will serve as the way parents and students will know the evening’s homework and activities that the students are working on. As we have upcoming projects and important activities, I will to ensure parents and students are kept in the loop. Storm Report / VISA Each Friday, students will be filling out a “Storm Report”. This Storm Report is in their binder and after filling out the behavior section, the students will bring it home to be signed. Storm Reports should returned with a parent signature every Monday. In addition, the students have a VISA chart on their Storm Report. If students are misbehaving, forgetting their homework or having any other issues that would require issuing a consequence, students will be required to circle a letter. This will be in their agenda every night so that you can always be aware of their behavior.

13. Graded Work Binder
Students will be utilizing a binder to track all of their graded work that is returned to them. This will be useful for students to help keep their graded work organized.
Graded work will be passed out to the students on Friday.
Students will place their graded work in the correct section of their binder
Graded work binders will then be sent home every Friday. Parents will go through the graded work with their child to keep updated on your child’s progress.
All graded work will remain in the graded work binder each quarter and the binder will be returned to school every Monday.
Keep in mind, not all graded work will be placed in the graded work binder as some will be displayed on the walls, some will be informal observations or assessments and some will be within journals or other forms of assessments that cannot be placed in a binder.

14. Homework
Students will be given a math practice sheet every evening Monday – Thursday. The math paper will be reviewed in class the following day, so it is imperative that students complete this as assigned. Students will also be expected to read nightly. Students may also have additional homework or projects assigned from time to time to practice a specific skill, however majority of your child’s homework will come from anything that is not finished in class. If you feel your child is coming home with an excessive amount of homework, it could be due to lack of effort and focus in class. In addition, if your child has very little homework, that could be the result of lots of hard work and on task behavior in class.
Students will be graded on the following grading scale: 100% - 90% = A 89% - 80% = B 79% - 70% = C 69% - 60% = D 59% - 50% = F

15. They can accomplish this by:
5th Grade Success
It is my hope that this year your child will not only learn a variety of academic skills, but will learn invaluable organization and study habit skills that will serve them well in their future academic success. One of the important skills that we will talk about this year is the importance of students putting in their best effort. For me as their teacher and for you as their parent, we want to see them succeed and will do a great deal to help them in this endeavor. We cannot do it all for them, and one of the important ideals that we will discuss throughout the year is the importance of students helping themselves in their own academic success.
They can accomplish this by:
Being focused and on task during instruction
Completing homework and classwork when assigned and putting in their best effort.
Asking questions!!

16. Additional Information
Classroom Management
Positive Rewards
Intrinsic Motivation
Class Compliments
School-wide ICU’s
VISA ticket drawing/treasure box
Consequences
VISA
Possible loss of privileges (ie: Fun Friday, field trips etc.)

17. Miscellaneous 5th Grade Information
Field Trips
BizTown
Arrowhead Pool
Childsplay Theater
ASU 3-D Science Theatre
Skateland for a STEM Lesson
Traveling Ben Franklin Exhibit
Fundraisers
Gold Canyon Candles

18. Infinite Campus
Infinite Campus is our district wide grade book system. Again this year, Chandler Unified School District is going paperless in terms of progress reports and report cards. These will no longer be distributed to the students in the classroom, they will be viewed on Infinite Campus. Due to this, it is imperative that you have access to your child’s Infinite Campus account. In addition to progress reports and report cards, all extracurricular fees will be paid through Infinite Campus. These are the tax credit fees that are paid in order to participate in field trips and additional activities such as band or student council.

19. Thank you for allowing us to be a part of your child’s life!!
If you have any questions, please don’t hesitate to contact us:
Tisha Edwards
Kelli Ems
Lisa Roberts
Hannah Ross
Angelica Cole