Long Range Plans – Grade 5                              2005 – 2006                          © E. Berndl  

 

Term 1

Term 2

Term 3

Language

 

Reading: :

  • Texts – Atlas
  • Novels - SQUIRT – quantity & sustained focus, personal preferences, reading at appropriate level
  • Novels – Award Winners
  • Comprehension – CLOZE
  • Weekly Read Aloud – Choral Reading
  • Poetry
  • Richvale Public Library Visits – introduction to catalogue searches, music, junior novels
  • Guided Reading – Weather Unit

Writing:

  • Letters
    • Home Journals - cursive
  • Summaries
    • Talking Book – daily
  • Advertising – Reader’s Annotation
  • Creative writing – Hat Story – use dialogue & quotation marks
  • Handwriting - cursive review
    • Daily Quotation
    • Lettering
    • Magic lines
  • Keyboarding
  • Note Taking - Viewing & NT
  • Fluency – FMTW – Five Minute Timed Writing
  • Conventions
    • letter format
    • Awesome writing

Oral/Visual:

  • Talk About – alternate weeks
  • Poetry Presentation
  • Following Instructions
  • Viewing with a purpose
  • Presentation outlines, cue cards
  • IPD – tagged book, costume, props

Read Aloud:

  • Myths, Fables

Reading:

  • Texts – Early Civilizations
  • Myths & Legends related to Early  Civilizations
  • Novels – SQUIRT
  • Comprehension – CLOZE
  • Weekly Read Aloud – Choral Reading
  • Richvale Public Library Visits – introduction to biographies, magazines, encyclopaedias
  • Guided Reading – Early Civilizations
  • Research – National Geographic Magazine
  • Picture Books

Writing:

  • Letters
    • Home Journals - cursive
  • Creative writing – pattern book - The Important Book About …
  • Handwriting - Fluent cursive in letter writing & most notes
  • Keyboarding
  • Word Processing
  • Quotation Marks Unit
  • Note Taking - Transcribing from the board
    • Reading & note-taking
  • RND – Reading, taking Notes & Drawing pictures
  • Advertising – Reader’s Annotation
  • Fluency – FMTW
  • Conventions – point form notes
  • Picture Book – publish & bind

Oral/Visual:

  • Ancient Culture Presentation
  • Story Telling
  • Story Map for Story Telling
  • Talk About
  • Dictated Geometry Quizes – Draw on Demand
  • Performing – Magic Tricks – Culture Fair
  • Public speaking – Speech
  • Public Speaking Contest – Mar.
  • Human Organs Demo
  • Book Talk – I recommend ..
  • Listening -Getting the Main Idea
  • IPD – demonstration, artifacts, models

Read Aloud:

  • Myths & Legends from Ancient Greece

Reading:

  • Texts - Canada
  • Novels - SQUIRT – novels set in Canada
  • Weekly Read Aloud – Choral Reading
  • Dictionaries
  • Research – library & the internet
  • Comprehension – retelling orally & in writing
  • Local newspaper
  • Richvale Public Library Visits

Writing:

  • Letters
    • Home Journals – cursive & quick sketches
    • Thank You Letters
  • Creative writing
    • Short stories – How the hm got its hm – or – Harris Burdick Mysteries
    • Poetry – free choice
  • Handwriting – Speed – Writing Derby
  • Keyboarding – Goal 15 wpm
  • Word Processing
  • Note Taking - Point form notes for research
  • Summaries
    • Talking Book – daily
  • Advertising – Reader’s Annotation
  • Fluency – FMTW
  • Yearbook articles
  • Conventions - quotation marks

Oral/Visual:

  • Historical Fiction Monologue
  • Reading Aloud own stories to class
  • IRP – Independent Research Project
  • Junkmobile Presentation
  • Matter Experiment Demo
  • Interviewing & reporting
  • IPD – demonstration, artifacts, models, video, audio, costume, props

Talking Book:

  • The Lion, The Witch & The Wardrobe

Mathematics

 

1. Number Sense & Numeration

 

  • Number Facts: MMM
  • Addition – 3 4-digit numbers
  • Subtraction – 2 4-digit numbers
  • Multiplication– 2 digit X 2 digit Rounding -  nearest 10, 100, 1000, 10,000
  • standard, expanded, written form
  • Number Facts: MMM up to 12x12
  • Place value 0.01 to 100 000
  • Division – 4 digit by 1 digit, remainders

 

  • Number Facts: Mental Math – 2 digit
  • Mult/Divide decimals by 1 digit
  • Decimals – mentally mult. by 10, 100, divide by 10
  • Fractions – order, mixed, proper, improper

 

2. Measurement

 

 

  • Time – analog clock to nearest second
  • Linear measurement – length – regular & irregular shapes
  • Money – up to $1000 (decimals)Perimeter, circumference
  • Area – regular & irregular shapes
  • Capacity, volume – liquid, powder
  • Mass
  • Speed

 

3. Geometry & Spatial Sense

 

  • tessellations (art)
  • grid coordinates – mapping skills
  • transformational geometry
  • Protractor –measure & draw (construct) angles
  • 2D shapes
  • Origami – paper folding, precision, applied polygons
  • Using a compass – geometric designs
  • 3D solids, skeletons

 

4. Patterning & Algebra

 

  • Discovering Logic

 

  • Word Problems
  • Calculator Problem Solving Unit
  • Patterns with 2 variables, state rules for creating patterns
  • Board games – chess & checkers club
  • Pentominoes Unit
  • Adventures with Logic
  • Card Games - Euchre

 

5. Data Management

 

  • graph MMM results using tables in Word
  • Graphs – pictograph, line, bar, circle
  • Averages – mean, mode
  • Tree diagram
  • Probability
  • Card Games, shuffling cards, die

Social Studies

 

Global Awareness & Human Rights

  • Mapping – the World
  • Comparing our life with the lives of others
  • From Me to We - Kielburger

Early Civilizations

  • Mediterranean (Rome, Greece, Egypt), African, Asian (China, Japan), Central America (Mayan), South America (Inca)
  • Role-playing, Ancient Festival, performing
  • Note-taking from text
  • Field Trip - Royal Ontario Museum – Nov.

Aspects of Government in Canada

  • Research & debate
  • Note-taking from text
  • Reading local papers
  • Current Events Scrapbook from local newspaper

 

Science

 

Weather

·         Journaling & Scrapbook

·         Observing & reflecting

·         Collage & artwork

·         Adopt-A-Stream - Sept

·         Tree Planting – Sept, Oct.

Human Organ Systems

  • Drawing & labeling diagrams
  • Make a working model
  • Human Organ Model Demo
  • The Important Book About….
  • Viewing & Note-taking
  • Group Poster – healthy living – organs - drugs
  • Body Band – rhythm & sounds

Structures & Mechanisms

  • Building & mucking around
  • Junk-Mobile
  • Bizarre Architecture
  • Field Trip - Ontario Science Centre – Mar.

Properties of and Changes in Matter Conservation of Energy

·         Investigating, reporting

·         Experimenting at home & in class

·         Demonstration of 1 Experiment & Explanation

  • Earth Day – Apr.22 – Kortright
  • Tree Planting
  • Field Trip – end of June – Zoo

Visual Arts   Music   Drama

 

Art:

  • 2D - Lettering, Illustrating, Drawing BasicsStill Life Sketching, Who Am I Collage, Group Shadow Mural w/ sponge paint patterns
  • 3D – Sock Puppets for Poetry, Hat sculpture
  • Integration – mapping
  • Skills – cutting, folding, sketching, shading, lettering, sewing, glue gun

Music:

  • Singing
  • Reading music
  • International Music Appreciation - from around the world – find selection, use CD player, explain preference
  • Drumming

Drama:

  • Poetry Presentation 12 & 16 line poems with puppets

Art:

  • 2D - Portraits, Shadow profiles & shadow cutting, Profile Sketching, Collage
  • 3D - Paper Mache figure, Finger Puppets
  • Publication – All About Me, The Important Book About Human Organs
  • Integration – Drawing diagrams, Figure Drawing – Human Organ Model
  • Skills – sewing, sculpting, model making

Music:

  • Performing
  • Singing
  • Music Theory
  • Field Trip: Toronto Symphony – date varies

Drama:

  • Role Playing & entertaining at the Ancient Festival
  • Oral Re-Tell of Myth or Legend
  • Magic Trick Presentations

Art:

  • 2D – Yearbook Cover Design, Cloud Collage, Impressionists – conte, Landscapes & Sky - Water Colour Painting
  • 3D – Paper Mache Mask, Nuts about Knots
  • Publication – Short Story & Poetry Collection, Class Yearbook
  • Integration – Cloud collage, Landscape & sky painting, Junkmobile
  • Skills – collage, painting, tying knots

Music:

  • Drumming - Rhythm
  • Singing – Call & Answer

Drama:

  • Historical Fiction Monologue

Dance: Group Presentation

 

Physical Education   Health

 

Phys.Ed:

  • Soccer baseball
  • cooperative games

Health: Personal Safety– school rules, fire, road, home, bicycle

Fitness: In class stretch, dance & movement breaks

 

Phys.Ed:

  • volleyball
  • basketball
  • scoopball
  • skating
  • Field Trip – skating – Dec, Jan, Feb, Mar

Health: Food & nutrition (Organs), Substance Abuse – drugs - poster

Fitness: In class stretch, dance & movement breaks

 

Phys.Ed:

  • dodgeball
  • floor hockey
  • track & field
  • skipping
  • hula hoop

Health: Growth & Development

Fitness: In class stretch, dance & movement breaks

 

Projects

 

  1. Memorize 2 poems – 12 & 16 lines – perform with costume, puppet & actions
  2. Weather Collage
  1. The Important Book Abut Human Organs .. – publish
  2. Speech (3 to 5 min., written out on cue cards or memorized)
  3. Ancient Culture Presentation ( 2 to 3 min.) perform with costume & props, 2 tagged books, 1 cue card
  4. Human Organ Model Demo (1 to 3 min.) 1 cue card, model, 1 tagged book
  5. Group Poster – drugs
  6. Culture Fair Performance – music & entertainment
  7. Picture Book - publish
  1. Historical Fiction Monologue (1 to 2 pages written) read aloud dramatically with costumes, props & dramatic gestures
  2. Junkmobile Presentation (2 -4 min), 1 cue card, creation, demonstration
  3. Current Events Scrapbook
  4. Current Events Scrapbook
  5. Present Musical Listening Selection
  6. Experiment - demonstrate
  7. Short Story & Poetry Collection – publish
  8. Class Yearbook –  publish
  9. Group Dance Performance (2 min.)
  10. All About Me - publish

 

 

Timeline

 

Weeks 1 – 10

Weeks 11 – 24

Weeks 25 – 38*40

           

 

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