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Welcome to 5th Grade!
The information below is meant to help enhance your education. Curriculum overviews, classroom updates and agendas, and general Ojibwa news will be posted here regularly. All content covered on Curriculum Night can be found in the PowerPoint Presentation below. Please check out the Ojibwa Elementary website for activities, updates, and great links for kids! http://www.cvs.k12.mi.us/ojibwa/
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Please review the Curriculum Night video above to see Ojibwa's school improvement goals in the areas of Mathematics, Writing and Reading!
Ojibwa's Mission, Vision, and Belief Statements
We support and strive to uphold Ojibwa's mission and vision each day within our classrooms. We're here to help each and every student reach their highest potential.
Mission Statement:
The Ojibwa staff, in cooperation with the community, parents, and students, motivates and inspires all students to reach their highest potential through a dynamic, comprehensive curriculum provided in a nurturing environment.
Vision Statement:
We strive to provide students with the tools that will prepare them for a productive future as responsible, contributing citizens who are committed to excellence.
Belief Statements:
We believe learning should be a continuous, life-long experience.
We believe Ojibwa provides students with a well-rounded curriculum promoting academic, social amd emotional growth.
We believe all children need to be challenged and motivated.
We believe all children are individuals with unique needs and talents.
Every child's success depends upon cooperation between school, home, and student.
Mission Statement:
The Ojibwa staff, in cooperation with the community, parents, and students, motivates and inspires all students to reach their highest potential through a dynamic, comprehensive curriculum provided in a nurturing environment.
Vision Statement:
We strive to provide students with the tools that will prepare them for a productive future as responsible, contributing citizens who are committed to excellence.
Belief Statements:
We believe learning should be a continuous, life-long experience.
We believe Ojibwa provides students with a well-rounded curriculum promoting academic, social amd emotional growth.
We believe all children need to be challenged and motivated.
We believe all children are individuals with unique needs and talents.
Every child's success depends upon cooperation between school, home, and student.
Math - Mrs. Goedge
This year we were given new math standards to teach to all students. These new standards are referred to as the "Common Core Standards" or CCS. Please take a look at these standards to be familiar with what your 5th grader will be responsible for learning in math this year at:
http://www.corestandards.org/the-standards/mathematics
We've finished division and are ready to learn about FRACTIONS. Throughout this unit, we will review basic fraction concepts, like equivalent fractions, ordering fractions, and simplifying fractions. After that, we will learn to add, subtract, mulitiply and divide fractions. This is a long unit and it can be challenging for students. Please help support your child by reviewing homework and quizzes with them! See the weekly agendas for more information. Remember, there is a Math 4 Today Quiz every Friday! This counts for 20% of your math grade!
The entire Math textbook is available online for your convenience. Visit www.pearsonsuccessnet.com. Username: ojibwa2011 Password: student
http://www.corestandards.org/the-standards/mathematics
We've finished division and are ready to learn about FRACTIONS. Throughout this unit, we will review basic fraction concepts, like equivalent fractions, ordering fractions, and simplifying fractions. After that, we will learn to add, subtract, mulitiply and divide fractions. This is a long unit and it can be challenging for students. Please help support your child by reviewing homework and quizzes with them! See the weekly agendas for more information. Remember, there is a Math 4 Today Quiz every Friday! This counts for 20% of your math grade!
The entire Math textbook is available online for your convenience. Visit www.pearsonsuccessnet.com. Username: ojibwa2011 Password: student
Science - Mrs. Goedge
We have begun to dissect the details of the human body! This massive unit will take us through the new year. We will study a new body system each week and then take a quiz over that system. Students will conduct their first INVESTIGATION Projects throughout this unit so please look for information about the project coming home soon. At the end of the unit, there will be a test over all the systems. Please see the agendas for further details.
Our new Science texts are available online at www.myngconnect.com/S1
An older Science textbook is also available at http://www.pearsonsuccessnet.com
Username: ojibwa2011 Password: student
Our new Science texts are available online at www.myngconnect.com/S1
An older Science textbook is also available at http://www.pearsonsuccessnet.com
Username: ojibwa2011 Password: student
Social Studies - Mrs. Reeves
5th graders have the opportunity this year to learn about the history or our nation. The timeline of our year will start with the lives of early Native Americans and will end with the adoption of our Constitution. We will be moving on in history to our early colonization unit. We will focus on how and why the Spanish, French, and English colonies developed in the Americas. Looking at each nations' motivations for coming to the New World we will see how they interacted with the environment and the people in the Americas. Additionally students will be introduced to the economics of the new colonies and why certain industries developed in specific areas of land.
Language Arts - Mrs. Reeves
This year we were given new Language Arts standards to teach to all students. These new standards are referred to as the "Common Core Standards" or CCS. Please take a look at these standards to be familiar with what your 5th grader will be responsible for learning in reading and writing this year at:
http://www.corestandards.org/the-standards/english-language-arts-standards
Writing - Ojibwa Elementary utilizes a writing program called "Being a Writer". We will be using this program to guide us through writing narrative and information texts this year. If you would like more information on this highly effective program please visit their website at: http://www.devstu.org/being-a-writer. We are nearing the end of our second unit in the Being a Writer program, the writing process.
We are nearing the end of our third unit in the Being a Writer program, persuasive nonfiction. In this unit, students were asked to form an opinion on a topic they felt strongly about. Our class utilized graphic organizers and information from the Internet to create their essays. Each student has written the essay with the goal of persuading the reader to agree with their opinion. Students will be sharing their persuasive essays during author’s chair. Beginning in February, we will explore writing expository (informational) nonfiction. We will begin by reading informational text about nature and natural disasters. During week three, students will pick a topic to write about and begin their research. They will refine their skills of organizing information and using strong sentences. You can help your child throughout this unit by reading informational text such National Geographic magazines or your at home newspaper.
Reading - It’s a mystery! Our next unit in reading will be mystery and the kids have already gotten a taste of this by using clues to guess our mystery book. In this genre, we will be reading Edgar Allen’s Official Crime Investigation Notebook, a story based on a fifth grade classroom where items keep disappearing. The main themes we'll be focusing on during the book are poetry, friendship, and using logic. This is a book that we have class sets of so your child should be coming home with this book each night to review and reread. We will generally have a comprehension review every 5 chapters, and will have a test and the AR test at the end of the story. In addition, the students will complete activities throughout the book based on the themes listed above and other story elements.
Working with words (Spelling and Vocabulary) - To help our 5th graders develop into more advanced readers and writers we are integrating our spelling and vocabulary programs. The main expectation for this is to have students work with words, their spellings, meanings, and various usages within their daily writing. To allow students the time to truly get to know and understand their words, we will be giving a new list each month, not each week. This word list will be a combination of the most commonly misspelled words, new vocabulary words, words from our novels, and words from our other content area subjects. These will be approximately 20 words on each list. At the end of the month there will be a quiz on the spelling, meaning, and proper usage of the words.
SPELLING CITY WEBSITE - http://www.spellingcity.com/
MULTIPLE LOGINS: owl1 through owl29 PASSWORD: ojibwa
Daily 5 - During our daily reading block, we will be using the Daily 5 model for students to develop their reading and writing skills in multiple settings. To accomodate for the unique needs of a 5th grade classroom, we will be modifying the Daily 5 model to a Daily 3 model. Within the Daily 3, students will have the opportunity to choose from reading to themselves, reading to a partner, listening to reading, or working with words. During this time Mrs. Goedge and I will be working one on one with a student or with small groups to enhance reading comprehension. The Daily 3 program is designed to help students gain independence and choice to suit their reading needs. We are very excited to begin using this model for reading instruction and expect that the students will benefit greatly from it as well!
http://www.corestandards.org/the-standards/english-language-arts-standards
Writing - Ojibwa Elementary utilizes a writing program called "Being a Writer". We will be using this program to guide us through writing narrative and information texts this year. If you would like more information on this highly effective program please visit their website at: http://www.devstu.org/being-a-writer. We are nearing the end of our second unit in the Being a Writer program, the writing process.
We are nearing the end of our third unit in the Being a Writer program, persuasive nonfiction. In this unit, students were asked to form an opinion on a topic they felt strongly about. Our class utilized graphic organizers and information from the Internet to create their essays. Each student has written the essay with the goal of persuading the reader to agree with their opinion. Students will be sharing their persuasive essays during author’s chair. Beginning in February, we will explore writing expository (informational) nonfiction. We will begin by reading informational text about nature and natural disasters. During week three, students will pick a topic to write about and begin their research. They will refine their skills of organizing information and using strong sentences. You can help your child throughout this unit by reading informational text such National Geographic magazines or your at home newspaper.
Reading - It’s a mystery! Our next unit in reading will be mystery and the kids have already gotten a taste of this by using clues to guess our mystery book. In this genre, we will be reading Edgar Allen’s Official Crime Investigation Notebook, a story based on a fifth grade classroom where items keep disappearing. The main themes we'll be focusing on during the book are poetry, friendship, and using logic. This is a book that we have class sets of so your child should be coming home with this book each night to review and reread. We will generally have a comprehension review every 5 chapters, and will have a test and the AR test at the end of the story. In addition, the students will complete activities throughout the book based on the themes listed above and other story elements.
Working with words (Spelling and Vocabulary) - To help our 5th graders develop into more advanced readers and writers we are integrating our spelling and vocabulary programs. The main expectation for this is to have students work with words, their spellings, meanings, and various usages within their daily writing. To allow students the time to truly get to know and understand their words, we will be giving a new list each month, not each week. This word list will be a combination of the most commonly misspelled words, new vocabulary words, words from our novels, and words from our other content area subjects. These will be approximately 20 words on each list. At the end of the month there will be a quiz on the spelling, meaning, and proper usage of the words.
SPELLING CITY WEBSITE - http://www.spellingcity.com/
MULTIPLE LOGINS: owl1 through owl29 PASSWORD: ojibwa
Daily 5 - During our daily reading block, we will be using the Daily 5 model for students to develop their reading and writing skills in multiple settings. To accomodate for the unique needs of a 5th grade classroom, we will be modifying the Daily 5 model to a Daily 3 model. Within the Daily 3, students will have the opportunity to choose from reading to themselves, reading to a partner, listening to reading, or working with words. During this time Mrs. Goedge and I will be working one on one with a student or with small groups to enhance reading comprehension. The Daily 3 program is designed to help students gain independence and choice to suit their reading needs. We are very excited to begin using this model for reading instruction and expect that the students will benefit greatly from it as well!
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Important Dates
January
4- Classes resume
6- Maturation Movie
13- Accelerated Reading Cutoff Date for Tags
13- Skeletal and Muscular System Quiz
16- No school for students
17- DIVISION TEST
20- Progress Reports go home
20 - Nervous System Quiz
27- COLONIAL REGIONS TEST
30- HUMAN BODY TEST
February
8- Student Count Day- please be sure to attend school on time!
13- Fraction Concept Quiz
17-27 Mid Winter Break
29- Spring Picture Day
March
9- End of Second Trimester
13- Report Cards go home
14- Parent Teacher Conferences in evening
15- Parent Teacher Conferences in afternoon and evening
15- 1/2 day
16- 1/2 day
16- Accelerated Reading Cutoff Date for Tags
30- Spring Break starts at the end of the day
April
10- Classes Resume
27- Progress Reports go home
May
21- FINAL Accelerated Reading Cutoff Date for Tags
25- No school for students
28- No school for Memorial Day
June
5- Joe Dumar's 10-3
12- 1/2 Day, 5th Grade Graduation
4- Classes resume
6- Maturation Movie
13- Accelerated Reading Cutoff Date for Tags
13- Skeletal and Muscular System Quiz
16- No school for students
17- DIVISION TEST
20- Progress Reports go home
20 - Nervous System Quiz
27- COLONIAL REGIONS TEST
30- HUMAN BODY TEST
February
8- Student Count Day- please be sure to attend school on time!
13- Fraction Concept Quiz
17-27 Mid Winter Break
29- Spring Picture Day
March
9- End of Second Trimester
13- Report Cards go home
14- Parent Teacher Conferences in evening
15- Parent Teacher Conferences in afternoon and evening
15- 1/2 day
16- 1/2 day
16- Accelerated Reading Cutoff Date for Tags
30- Spring Break starts at the end of the day
April
10- Classes Resume
27- Progress Reports go home
May
21- FINAL Accelerated Reading Cutoff Date for Tags
25- No school for students
28- No school for Memorial Day
June
5- Joe Dumar's 10-3
12- 1/2 Day, 5th Grade Graduation
