• Make appropriate choices when faced with peer pressure
• Explain the changes that occur with puberty (emotional, physical, and social)
• Explain the function of the respiratory, digestive, and circulatory system

• Use complimentary pairs, shading and tints of color in their artwork
• Use contour lines to draw
• Use different textures multi-media approaches
• Develop the use of negative space
• Create a relief, 3-D project
• Use art as self-expression
• Introduce one-point perspective
• Appreciate fine art and multicultural influences with an emphasis on American Art.

• Sing alone &/or with other students
• Be exposed to a variety of music from different cultures, time periods, and styles
• Use age appropriate instruments to accompany music
• Learn, read, and demonstrate basic musical notation
• Listening to and describing a variety of musical styles
• Learn a variety of dances and musical games
• Introduce flutophone/recorder

• Demonstrates competency in motor skills and movement patterns needed to perform a variety of physical activities
• Participate regularly in physical activity
• Achieves and maintains a health-enhancing level of physical fitness
• Demonstrates understanding of movement concepts, principles, strategies and tactics as they apply to the learning and performance of physical activities
• Exhibits responsible personal social behavior that respects self and others in physical activity settings
• Values physical activity for health, enjoyment, challenge, self-expression and/or social interaction

Reading

• Identify story elements of an appropriate narrative selection (setting, character, conflict, climax, and resolution)
• Construct meaning from an appropriate expository text by using a variety of study skills to identify text structure
• Analyze given selections to identify the author's purpose for writing as to inform, to persuade, to entertain, and to justify conclusions
• Use multiple strategies to decode words and construct meaning (context clues, key words, pictures, rereading, skip and go on, repredicting, drawing conclusions, prior knowledge)
• Differentiate between various genres (science fiction, historical fiction, realistic fiction, fantasy and biography)
• Explore and reflect on universal themes by drawing parallels and contrasting key ideas, concepts, and varied perspectives read in multiple texts..

Speaking

• Organize, sequence, practice and deliver an oral presentation on a project incorporating the skills of voice projection, inflection, fluency and appropriate non-verbal language
• Incorporate multimedia aids in oral presentation
• Design and deliver an oral presentation analyzing an issue incorporating the skills of voice projection, inflection, fluency and appropriate non-verbal language

Writing

• Plan, process and write narrative with the following elements: setting, character, conflict, climax, and resolution
• Plan, process, and write at least five paragraph narrative essay with an introduction, body, supporting details, and conclusion focusing on drafting, revising, conferencing, editing, and publishing
• Write in a variety of genres across the curriculum (journals, reflections, poetry, letters, investigative reports, math logs, essays, and stories)
• Write dialogue using quotation marks and appropriate punctuation
• Write an expository position paper that draws conclusions based on his/her understanding of differing views, presented in text to support a position

Listening

• Listen to an oral presentation evaluating and summarizing main idea(s) and supporting details in order to determine a position on an issue

Spelling

• Correctly spell a selected list of high frequency use, frequently misspelled words, and content area words appropriate for fifth grade
• Spell accurately in a published piece of work

Research

• Locate and organize in writing information on a selected topic using multiple resources that may include primary resources, the dictionary, encyclopedia, trade books, thesaurus, atlas, almanac, and available technology

• Identifies prime and composite numbers, even and odd
• Draws an array model for multiplication
• Solves basic multiplication facts
• Lists all the factors of a number
• Finds the product of multi-digit whole numbers
• Finds the product of decimals
• Identifies place values from thousandths to trillions
• Finds the sum of multi-digit whole numbers
• Finds the sum of decimals
• Finds the difference of multi-digit numbers
• Finds the difference of decimals
• Identifies the maximum, minimum, median, mode and mean for a data set
• Measures and draws angles with a protractor to within two degrees
• Identifies types of angles
• Classifies triangles as isosceles, scalene, or equilateral
• Sorts polygons according to their properties
• Defines and creates tessellations
• Finds the quotient’s and remainder of a whole number divided by both a 1- and 2-digit whole number
• Adds fractions with common denominators

• Calculate to rename any fraction as a decimal or percent
• Finds equivalent fractions
• Subtracts fractions with common denominators
• Adds positive and negative numbers
• Understands and applies exponential rotation
• Uses parentheses in number sentences to specify the order of operations
• Determines whether number sentences containing parentheses are true or false
• Orders compares positive and negative numbers
• Uses a successful strategy for adding mixed numbers with unlike denominators
• Identifies the base and height of triangles, rectangles and parallelograms
• Explains area; uses appropriate units for area measure
• Uses a formula to find the area of triangles, rectangles, and parallelograms
• Interprets mystery line plots and graphs
• Uses formulas to find area and circumference of a circle
• Identifies and compares properties of geometric solids
• Can find the volume of cylinders

• Place major historical events in chronological order within the proper century and decades
• Construct and use narratives and graphic data to compare the past to the present of Michigan, and other parts of the United States
• Recount the lives and character of a variety of individuals from the past
• Use primary and secondary records to reconstruct the past: interpret conflicting accounts of events; analyze the viewpoint of the author; and compose simple narratives of events from United States history
• Determine and evaluate positive and negative effects of key decisions made in United States history
• Locate and label selected landforms, bodies of water, and countries on an outline map of the Western Hemisphere to create a physical/political map
• Explain how humans adapt to, depend on, and modify the environment
• Describe the causes, consequences, routes, and movement of major migration to the United States
• Describe some of the major movements of goods, people, jobs, and information within the United States and explain the reason for the movement.
• Locate major world events that impact the United States and explain how they impact people and the environment
• Investigate and analyze the three branches, and the levels within each branch of the United States government, including the Constitution and the Bill of Rights
• Interpret the development and summarize the main parts in the Declaration of Independence and the Bill of Rights
• Explain the meaning of specific rights guaranteed by the Constitution that included the rule of law; separation of powers; checks and balances; minority rights; civilian control of the military; separation of church and state; and federalism
• Distinguish among making, enforcing, and interpreting laws
• Distinguish between the economic roles of local, state, and federal governments and use a decision making model to assess the effectiveness of government and various forms of private business in providing goods and services to the local level
• Gather and analyze information using appropriate information technologies to construct an answer to a question posed, and support the answer with evidence
• Identify a public issue, use date and inquiry methods to take an informed stand (position), and then create a persuasive oral or written argument that relates to at least one Core Democratic Value (CDV)