• St. Louis Public Schools Curriculum 2021-2022

    Reading / English

    By the end of the year, students in 5 th grade will be able to…

     Identify themes of stories, poems and plays by looking at how characters respond to challenges.

     Compare stories and poems that talk about the same theme.

     Support ideas with facts and details from a text.

     Use information from many different sources (books, articles, websites) to find an answer to a question or problem.

     Learn the conventions of Standard English and learn topic-related vocabulary (such as science words) to use in writing and speaking.

     Understand similes, metaphors and other figurative language.

     Participate in conversations and discussions not only by listening, but also by asking questions and adding their own ideas.

     Give presentations, tell stories and write reports, research papers and opinion essays in a logical order and with supporting details. (Learn ways to help your child break

    writing assignments into chunks.)

     Write in a variety types of texts such as narrative, opinion, and informational/expository.

     Provide evidence from multiple sources to support your writing.

    Math

    By the end of the year students in 5 th grade will be able to…

    • Use place value system understanding to perform operations with multi-digit whole numbers to billions and decimals to thousandths.

    • Understand the relationship between fractions and decimals (denominators that are factors of 100).

    • Perform operations and solve problems with fractions and decimals.

    • Represent and analyze patterns and relationships.

    • Write and interpret numerical expressions.

    • Use the four operations to represent and solve problems.

    • Classify two- and three- dimensional geometric shapes.

    • Understand and compute volume.

    • Graph points on the Cartesian coordinate plane within the first quadrant to solve problems.

    • Solve problems involving measurement and conversions within a measurement system.

    • Represent and analyze data.

     

    Social Studies

    By the end of the year students in 5th grade will be able to… Engage in the study of events, documents, movements, and people emphasizing the time period between 1800-2000 in America with a focus on inquiry into the continuing development of the United States as a nation. This survey of U.S. History between 1800- 2000 requires that students generate and research compelling questions throughout the course of their studies.

    Science

    By the end of the year, students in fifth grade will be able to…

     Use or develop a model to describe that matter is made of particles too small to be seen.  Use measurements to identify materials by their properties.

     Provide evidence that matter is conserved during changes in substance.

     Investigate and describe whether the mixing of substances produces a new substance.

     Use evidence to support that the gravitational force exerted by Earth on objects is directed toward the planet’s center.

     Use a model to describe that energy in food comes from the sun.

     Use a model to show that objects can be seen only when light is reflected or when they produce their own light.

     Use evidence to explain similarities and differences between body systems.

     Use evidence to support an argument that plants primarily need air and water to grow.

     Develop a model to describe how matter moves through organisms within an ecosystem.

     Use evidence to support explanations of the relationships between daylight and time of year.

     Use evidence to describe that the difference in brightness of the Sun compared to other stars is due to distance.

     Graph data to reveal observable daily patterns of shadows and seasonal changes in the sky.

     Develop a model to describe the ways in which the four Earth spheres interact.

     Describe and graph differences in water distribution on Earth.

     Combine information about ways to protect the environment.

     Define a simple design problem, including constraints and criteria.

     Generate and compare multiple possible solutions to an engineering design problem.

     Carry out tests to improve a model or prototype by controlling variables.