GRADE FIVE

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GRADE FIVE
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LANGUAGE ARTS
Outcomes

• Students will be expected to
• Speak and listen to explore, extend, clarify, and
  reflect on their thoughts, ideas, feelings, and
  experiences
• Communicate information and ideas effectively and
  clearly, and to respond personally and critically
• Interact with sensitivity and respect,
  considering the situation, audience, and purpose
• Select, read, and view with understanding a range
  of literature, information, media, and visual
  texts
• Interpret, select, and combine information using
  a variety of strategies, resources, and
  technologies

To be continued
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LANGUAGE ARTS
Outcomes (continued)

• Students will be expected to
• Respond personally to a range of texts
• Respond critically to a range of texts, applying
  their understanding of language, form, and genre
• Use writing and other forms of representation to
  explore, clarify, and reflect on their thoughts,
  feelings, experiences, and learnings and to use
  their imaginations
• Create texts collaboratively and independently,
  using a wide variety of forms for a range of
  audiences and purposes
• Use a range of strategies to develop effective
  writing and other ways of representing and to
  enhance their clarity, precision, and
  effectiveness

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LANGUAGE ARTS
Areas of Study

• Teamwork
• Homework Lessons
• Study Strategies
• Language Usage
• Writing narrative and expository
• Spelling / Vocabulary Development
• Short story / Novel Studies (several)
• Reading Skills (increasing focus on reading
  expository text)
• Special Interest Topics Remembrance Day Halifax
  Explosion Artists others related to student
  interest

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LANGUAGE ARTS Focus

• Refining students knowledge of the skills and
  strategies involved in the process of writing
  with emphasis on its five stages
• Prewriting
• Drafting
• Revision
• Editing and proofreading
• Publishing and Sharing
• Refining students knowledge of the research
  process
• Refining students organizational and time
  management skills
• Improving students ability to read factual
  (expository) material and to study it
• Providing instruction and opportunities to
  practise various writing, reading, listening,
  speaking, researching, and study strategies

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Learning to Write

• Students can be taught to write through exposure
  to an intense writing program that involves

• Analyzing well-written models of the expected
  form of writing
• Discussing the key elements of this form
• Developing and learning the template and/or
  checklist related to this form (its main
  ingredients)
• Practising the form using any developed templates
  and/or checklists of requirements
• Self reflection and editing
• Receiving feedback related to the practice piece
• Using the feedback to make improvements
• Having further practice opportunities
• Using the writing process in all areas of the
  curriculum

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MATHEMATICS
Strands

• GCO A Number Sense and Theory
• GCO B Number Operations
• GCO C Patterns and Relationships
• GCO D Measurement
• GCO E Geometry
• GCO F Data Management
• GCO G Probability

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MATHEMATICS
Curriculum

• GCO A Concepts related to Whole Numbers,
  Decimals, and Fractions Factors
• GCO B Whole Number Multiplication and
  Division Decimal Operations
• GCO C Relationships and Patterns involving
  Whole Number and Decimal
  Numbers
• GCO D Perimeter Areas Volume Capacity
  Angles Metric Unit Relationships
• GCO E 3-Dimensional Geometry Geometric
  Drawings Terminology Triangles
  Transformational Geometry
• GCO F Creating and Interpreting Various
  Graphs Data Collection
• GCO G Probability

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MATHEMATICS Unifying Ideas

• Problem Solving
• used to introduce new content, develop
  understanding of concepts, and provide real-life
  opportunities to practise operations
• Communication
• talking and writing about mathematics allows
  students to share their mathematical thinking
  and to deepen their understanding of concepts,
  strategies, and procedures
• Connections
• make connections to the real world, and to other
  mathematical concepts and to other areas of the
  curriculum that results in increasing interest
  and understanding
• Reasoning
• engage students in activities designed to
  develop their ability to reason

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SOCIAL STUDIES
Tentative Topics

• General Map Skills An Introduction
• Discovering Canada
• Current Events (on-going)
• Remembrance Day (integrated with Language Arts)
• Halifax Explosion (integrated with Language Arts)
• Rights of the Child
• Exploring Our Heritage (including African
  Canadian, Acadians, and class backgrounds)
• Explorers
• Other Related Map Skills

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SOCIAL STUDIES Skills and Strategies

• Knowing about locations related to the world, our
  country, and our province
• Working effectively in groups
• Collecting information through reading, lectures,
  newspapers, videos, and technology
• Learning the stages involved in the research
  process
• Presenting information in various ways including
  answers, maps, diagrams, graphs, paragraphs, and
  essays
• Refining map skills
• Learning about the importance of various cultures
• Developing a greater awareness and appreciation
  for other cultures
• Developing a greater awareness of current events
• Developing study strategies to use with content
  material
• Developing stronger reading skills related to
  content material

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HEALTH
Outcomes

• GCO A Students will be expected to demonstrate
  knowledge of the body, body functions, and growth
  and development.
• GCO B Students will be expected to demonstrate
  knowledge, skills, and attitudes that contribute
  to active, healthy living.
• GCO C Students will be expected to demonstrate
  knowledge of factors that contribute to healthy
  living values and practices.
• GCO D Students will be expected to demonstrate
  the knowledge, skills, and attitudes necessary to
  live happily and productively as an individual,
  within a family, and within the community.

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HEALTH
Tentative Topics

• Rights and Responsibilities
• Feelings / Personality
• Communication and Listening Skills
• Meeting Basic Needs and Maintaining a Healthy
  Body and Lifestyle
• Smoking / Drug Prevention
• Personal Growth and Development
• Body Systems and Functions

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