Fifth Grade

The King Open English Language Arts objective is to support effective literacy instruction in all of our classrooms and to ensure high achievement for all students. To achieve these goals the school, is aligned with the Cambridge Public Schools department of English Language Arts which has developed and continues to implement: a comprehensive assessment system with data collection, an effective, supplemental intervention program, targeted professional development at both the district and the school level and individual and cluster coaching in each school. The English Language Arts curriculum is aligned with the Common Core State Standards and includes experiences using a wide-range of rich literature and a variety of genres. This purposeful approach to excellence in literacy learning fosters self-confidence, encourages independence and enables our students to become life-long readers and writers.

In Grade 5, instructional time should focus on three critical areas:

• developing fluency with addition and subtraction of fractions, and developing understanding of the multiplication of fractions and of division of fractions in limited cases (unit fractions divided by whole numbers and whole numbers divided by unit fractions);
• extending division to 2-digit divisors, integrating decimal fractions into the place value system and developing understanding of operations with decimals to hundredths, and developing fluency with whole number and decimal operations; and
• developing understanding of volume.

Visit the District Math Department website to learn more >>

The theme for Grade 5 Science is systems: the Earth, Moon, Sun and Stars system, and Earth systems (ecosystems and matter in Earth’s systems). Learn more >>