Posted on: Thursday, September 23, 2004
What your fifth-grader is expected to learn
| • | How Parents Can Help |
Advertiser Staff
Here's a brief description of what your fifth-grade child is being taught and is expected to know by the end of the year. The goals are intended to help assure that your child is at the appropriate development level and that Hawai'i's public schools are working toward meeting Hawai'i Content and Performance Standards.
• Researches a health-risk area using a variety of resources, determining the validity of the sources • Practices self-management skills in daily home, school, and community activities • Evaluates personal decisions and goals and when it is appropriate to ask for help or support • Advocates a healthy behavior, assesses others' beliefs on the issue, and develops a message to address those beliefs
• Uses multiple sources to explain the chronology, relationships, and cultural dynamics of people and events in American history • Studies the exploration and colonization of America and the emergence of democratic values and principles of American democracy • Uses a set of participatory skills to apply civics, geography and economics to study the past, solve real problems, and care for the environment
• Improves accuracy in manipulative skills in dynamic situations, such as successfully performing forehand and backhand striking during an activity
• Continues to assume responsibility for personal safety and the safety of others
• Begins to match different types of physical activities to health-related fitness components
• Explains ways to improve fitness based on principles of frequency, intensity and time
• Designs investigations and arrives at conclusions based on data
• Describes the relationship between light and matter
• Describes the relationship between form and function
• Analyzes how organisms depend on other organisms and can adapt to the environment
• Creates a visual artwork and varies it by selecting and using alternate elements, processes, materials and technology
• Performs a musical composition and varies it by selecting and using alternate elements, processes, materials and technologies
• Creates a scene and varies it by selecting and using alternate elements, processes, materials and technology
• Creates a dance and varies it by selecting and using alternate elements, processes, materials and technology
• Follows formatting standards for electronic document preparation
• Gives examples of how technology and its uses are regulated by laws
• Uses spreadsheet and database programs to produce documents and reports
• Creates multimedia products for various audiences
• Uses telecommunications to retrieve and share information, and evaluates the information for accuracy and validity.
• Participates in a conversation that includes limited details on a familiar topic
• Recalls main parts of written materials
• Gives a written and oral presentation about an event or topic of personal interest
• Gives examples of contributions from own culture to the culture being studied
• Cites specific ways inventions in particular fields such as in transportation, communication, nutrition, etc., have improved life
• Investigates career-area requirements and shows how these requirements have changed over time
• Documents own learning through a collection of work samples
• Uses a process when reading to make inferences, draw conclusions and make judgments
• Writes and revises a piece several times for clearer meaning, better organization, more convincing language, stronger voice, and correct grammar and usage
• Repeats ideas when speaking in order to clear up meaning
• Draws conclusions after listening critically to a speaker
• Uses standard English
• Uses and justifies computation strategies
• Demonstrates measurementfluency
• Applies geometric ideas to solve problems
• Creates and generalizes ideas about patterns
• Analyzes data and examines basic probability ideas
Source: Department of Education
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Next week: What your sixth-grader is expected to learn.
Health
Social studies
Physical education
Science
Fine arts
Educational technology
World languages
Career education
Language Arts
Mathematics
| How Parents Can Help
Fifth-grade teacher Kathy Trifonovitch, of Maunawili Elementary School, offered these tips for helping your child succeed: • Familiarize yourself with the grade-level standards • Help your child increase his vocabulary by having him apply what he has learned in class to current events, stories or even television • Think of ways to have your child apply basic math skills, such as measuring things while cooking • Make a print-rich environment to expose your child to many different genres of writing • Encourage your child to write in different genres, such as letters and poetry • Emphasize the importance of a healthy, active lifestyle • Look for opportunities to learn about early American history, such as PBS programs or special events. • Talk about the civic duties you carry out, such as paying taxes and voting • Attend cultural events so your child can understand other cultures' values and beliefs |
