Grade+5


 * Sept.**

**Science- Scientific investigation, Matter**
Jenny- Prime Rap would be nice this month

Lisa- We'll touch base weekly? Are you doing library introduction for everyone's first visit?

 * LANGUAGE ARTS--Genre Introduction, Elements of Fiction, Plot and Conflict Resolution, Friendly Letters, Summarizing of Fiction and Non-Fiction, Main Idea of Fiction and Non-Fiction, Multiple Meanings, Features on Non-Fiction Text**

October Social Studies- Interactions in Action, Virginia Indians, and Jamestown Science- Finishing up matter, Force, Motion, and Energy

**Math- Geometry (and single and multistep problem solving- throughout year)**

 * November**

**SS- Jamestown...picking up the colonists with all of thier misery.**
=**November**=

=**LA---Communications obj. Differentiate auditory, visual, written media messages, identify characteristics and effectiveness of Media Messages, and construct media messages (Lisa did some lessons on the first part last year in the Library. Heath did something in Computer Lab, too, with media message construction last year.**=

=**Research obj.-Construct questions about topic, draw on info from multiple print or digital sources to locate answers to questions, give credit to sources**=

**January**

 * Math- fractions, decimals, ordering. ranking. adding and subtracting finding common denominators and expressing answers in simplest form**
 * Science- electricity, building circuits ets**
 * SS. cultures in colonial VA. daily living in colonial living**

__//February//__
=**Math- Adding, Subtracting, Multiplying, and Dividing with decimals...focus on decimal placement. Then, perimeter, volume, area, US Customary, Metric measures.**= =**Science- Sound- travels in waves, frequency, pitch, mediums that sound travels through and effect on speed of sound wave, vibrations**= =**Social Studies- Road to the Revolution, causes of war, colonial outrage of who governs, Famous Va from the Rev.War time period.**=
 * March**
 * Math- measurement of volume, length, and mass in US and Metric system**
 * Science- Beginning Light, then moving to Microscopes in early April**
 * Social Studies- Documents that our country was built on Constitution, Bill of Rights, Virginia Statute of Religious Freedom, then, on to the civil war**