Daily Schedule

8:25 -School Starts/Attendance

8:30 - 9:15       Specials

9:15-9:40 Class Meeting

9:40 - 10:40     CKLA Reading

10:40 - 11:10   Writing

11:10 - 12:25   Math 

12:25 - 1:10     Lunch & Recess 

1:10 - 2:00       Science 

2:00 - 3:00       Reading Groups

3:00 - 3:25       Reading Skills

3:25                  Dismissal 

Reading

5th grade students receive literacy instruction using the CKLA Amplify curriculum. CKLA Reading Knowledge is taught as ​whole group lessons. Students engage with a text as collaborative learners to deepen their vocabulary and develop comprehension skills. Students also develop writing skills through explicit instruction of grammar and the writing process with a variety of writing genres to include personal narratives, creative stories, poems, descriptive paragraphs, biographies, opinion essays and research essays.

Units of study:

  • Personal Narratives

  • Early American Civilization

  • Poetry

  • Adventures of Don Quixote

  • The Renaissance

  • The Reformation

  • William Shakespeare's A Midsummer Night's Dream

  • Chemical Matter

  • Native Americans

Supplemental Responsive Instruction & Skills-

During this time students have an opportunity to learn in a small group setting. Students are given individualized small group instruction that is rooted in the Science of Reading with a focus on comprehension and vocabulary for fluent readers. This time allows teachers to meet the students where they are at, and provide specialized reading instruction to advance the reading skills of all students.

Math

Through our Eureka Math Squared curriculum students will engage in a daily warm-up, whole group and/or small group instruction, and independent practice time.  Once students have completed their math work for the day they will have the opportunity to play math games, which are meant to provide further hands-on practice or complete a challenge sheet. Homework and video help are available to support students with math practice of each math module.

  • Module 1: Place Value Concepts for Multiplication and Division with Whole Numbers

  • Module 2: Addition and Subtraction with Fractions

  • Module 3: Multiplication and Division with Fractions

  • Module 4: Place Value Concepts for Decimal Operations

  • Module 5: Addition and Multiplication with Area and Volume

  • Module 6: Foundations to Geometry in the Coordinate Plane \

Social Studies

The Inquire Ed curriculum, along with inquiry and project based learning opportunities, is used to teach social studies. Students engage in the following units of study:

  • Native America,

  • Financial Literacy,

  • 13 Colonies,

  • Revolutionary War

Science

Science curriculum is taught using the Amplify curriculum, as well as, project based learning opportunities. Students engage in the following units:

  • Modeling Matter

    In the role of food scientists working for Good Food Production, Inc., students are introduced to the ideas that all matter is made of particles too small to see and that each different substance is made of particles (molecules) that are unique. Students are then challenged to solve two problems: One problem requires them to separate a mixture, and the other problem requires them to make unmixable substances mix. Students are challenged to use the particulate model of matter to explain their work to the president of the company. In so doing, students figure out that the properties of materials are related to the properties of the nanoparticles that make up those materials.

  • The Earth System

    The cities of East Ferris and West Ferris are located on different sides of a mountain on the fictional Ferris Island. East Ferris is having a water shortage while West Ferris is not. As water resource engineers, students learn about the Earth system so they can help figure out what is causing the water shortage on one part of the island. They also design ways to alleviate the effects of water shortages, including freshwater collection systems and proposals for using chemical reactions to treat wastewater.

  • Ecosystem Restoration

    Working as ecologists, students figure out why the organisms in a part of a Costa Rican rain forest ecosystem aren’t growing and thriving. As they solve this problem, students learn more generally how organisms in an ecosystem get the matter and energy they need to survive. Along the way, students write a series of restoration plans that include arguments about why the rain forest ecosystem is not thriving and recommend actions to restore its health.