FamilyLearningGuide A Parent’s Guide to Fifth Grade

The mission of the Davenport Community School District is to enhance each student’sabilities by providing a quality education, enriched by our diverse community.

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The Davenport Community School District mission celebrates the role of parents and community partners in supporting and extending learning beyond the school day. Our district goals align with the statewide efforts of the Iowa Core, dedicated to improving teaching and learning for each and every student.https://iowacore.gov/

This series of resource guides is designed to provide additional information and resources to assist parents and community members in their work with elementary-aged students from Kindergarten through Fifth Grade.

For more information, please contact your child’s school or call the Curriculum, Instruction, and Assessment office at (563) 336-5068.

Talk with Your Child’s Teacher.Academic targets provide a great opportunity for you to talk with teachers about what your child is learning in school and how you can support that learning at home. Be sure to ask about:

• Learning Targets • Your child’s progress • Ways you can support learning

Useful Links for Online LearningFine Artshttp://rivermusicexperience.org/

Health and Physical Education:http://www.shapeamerica.org/

Literacyhttp://www.lexiacore5.com/https://www.greatschools.org/gk/milestones/

Mathematicshttp://tiny.cc/envision http://www.khanacademy.org/http://www.corestandards.org/http://aaamath.com/index.htmlhttps://www.matific.com

Social Studieshttps://kids.usa.gov/social-studies/index.shtmlhttp://pbskids.org/games/social-studies/

Sciencehttp://www.kidsknowit.com/http://www.sciencekids.co.nz/http://www.kidsites.com/sites-edu/science.htmhttp://www.pobschools.org/cms/lib/NY01001456/Centricity/Domain/8/BestScienceSites.pdf

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By the end of the school year, we expect that a fifth grade student can: Learning activities you can do at home and in the community:

Fifth graders experience a broad range of instruction that supports and enriches academic learning and understanding.

• Read and comprehend grade-level texts• Summarize texts and determine the theme

from details• Read accurately and at a rate that supports

comprehension• Write for a variety of purposes (narratives,

opinion, informative)

• Multiply and divide fractions• Understand volume concepts • Represent and interpret data using line plots• Write and interpret numerical expressions• Graph points on a coordinate plane• Classify 2D figures • Add and subtract decimals to hundredths• Fluently multiply multi-digit whole numbers• Understand how place value positions are related

• Identify the challenges faced by the colonists• Determine how the government includes

principles of democracy• Identify and explain the differences between

the American Indian cultural regions• Apply historical thinking skills to interpret

events of the past

Arts Education: • Line, color, shape, form, space, texture,

proportion • Drawing, painting, museums/displaying

art, craft • Explore preferences and how artistic

choices influence meaning and mood • Create and present a personal portfolio

Health/Physical Education• Develop skills in a variety of team sports such

as volleyball and basketball.• Participate in fitness assessments and develop

plans to improve fitness• Practice interpersonal skills and communication

skills through participation.• Visit our parks for family fun and exercise,

or join the YMCA for family fitness.

• Determine how weather is always changing and how the properties of weather can be measured

• Justify the importance of the water cycle and its effect on weather

• Defend importance of the conservation of natural resources and environmental awareness

• Describe how elements can be combined to form a new substance with different properties

• Explain how matter is made of elements with specific properties including solids, liquids, and gases

• Evaluate how matter can change when energy is either added or taken away

• Identify that sound, light, and heat are forms of energy and can be converted from one form to another

• Watch a weather forecast or the Weather Channel with your child; discuss the weather in their area and how to plan the day/week with the weather predictions

• Discuss how electricity gets to our homes and the benefits of using alternative energy to power our community

• Look at the stars on a cloudless night; track where the constellations appear at the same time of night once a week.

• Visit the John Deere Planetarium at Augustana College. Contact http://helios.augustana.edu/astronomy

• Cook! Talk about how the food changes during the cooking process.

• Watch Discovery Channel programs (such as Mythbusters and How It’s Made). Connect how science is part of everyday life.

• Check out summer science camps in our area at the Putnam Museum, Nahant Marsh, St. Ambrose University College for Kids

• Take part in class discussions expressing ideas and collaborating

• Compare and contrast characters, settings, or events• Summarize texts including main ideas and key details• Decode words using phonics and word analysis skills• Adapt speech to a variety of tasks and purposes• Learn and use a rich vocabulary

• Read, write, and compare decimals to thousandths• Understand patterns with exponents and powers of 10• Use models and strategies to divide whole numbers• Use models and strategies to multiply and divide decimals• Add and subtract fractions with unlike denominators• Solve word problems involving addition and subtraction

of fractions• Convert measurement using multiplication and division

• Identify and analyze objects the Europeans took to and from the New World

• Explain how resources affect society and populations• Identify the cause and effects of Europeans exploring

the New World • Identify why each of the eight explorers came to the

New World• Explain the impact of exploration on settlements of

the Americas

Music Education: • Blues music and River

Currents Tour • Choral performance

opportunity • String program continues • Band program begins

• Take your student to the River, Prairie, and People exhibit at the Putnam and discuss how our region has changed since the beginning of settlement

• Talk about why people would want to explore new areas (land); research different explorers from our area/community

• Attend a government meeting (city council, school board, etc.) with your child and talk about the process of being an active citizen

• Look at a globe with your child and discuss challenges of exploration (crossing an ocean, living on a ship, etc.) for both the explorers and those living in the New World (Natives)

• Read with your child each day• Re-read your child’s favorite stories often• Create a quiet, special place for your child to read, write,

and draw• Write stories together about read or imagined events• Review and practice spelling and vocabulary words• Talk about books that your child is reading (ask questions)

• When given a multi-digit number with decimal digits, ask your student what each digit represents (e.g., “What is the value of the 4 in the number 37, 346?”)

• Help practice writing numbers correctly by saying multi-digit decimal numbers and having your student write them down. Students can create their own place value chars to help.

• Read from a variety of children’s books (different genres)• Take books and writing materials with you wherever

you go• Encourage your child to write everyday• Discuss new words to help build your child’s vocabulary • Visit a Davenport Public Library branch

• Continue practicing basic multiplication and division math facts

• Continue to review the place value system• Visit the Family Museum of Arts & Sciences for

interactive exhibits with math, science and more

21st Century Skills• Communicate with others• Recognize different roles

and expectations in the classroom

• Show Leadership• Show responsibility• Develop independence• Stay on task• Accept responsibility