Welcome to Fifth Grade Social Studies!

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Welcome to Fifth Grade Social Studies!
Mr. Driscolls Class 1010 1100 Mrs.
Deliuss Class 920 1010 Monday , Tuesday,
Thursday, and Friday
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Curriculum Highlights

• Government review the three branches of
  government, Supreme Court First Amendment
• The Constitution Lessons on how the Constitution
  came to be
• Revolutionary War causes of war, battles,
  results Liberty Tea Party
• Civil War causes of war, battles, results
• Re-enactors with a Civil War Day

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Geography Europe, Oceanography, Canada, and
National Parks, 51 landform terms
Curriculum Highlights cont.
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Presidential Biography

• In-depth presidential biography using many forms
  of research materials, completed with use of
  Printmaster, Kidspiration, Microsoft Word,
  including a class presentation and special
  Presidential Dinner.
• Choose president through lottery on September
  18th.
• Will be completed and graded one section at a
  time.
• After school research will be offered to help
  complete sections parents please volunteer for
  one of these sessions The sessions will be held
  on Monday _at_ 300 530.
• Class presentations will be made after
  biographies are complete in December.
• Presidential Dinner will take place in Gray Hall
  on
• January 14th at 7 PM where students work will be
  displayed.

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Field Trips

• Williamsburg
• April 29th, 30th, May 1st, 2014
• Parent Meeting prior to field trip
• Butterfly Garden in Gainesville
• March/April
• The World Turned Upside Down Presentation
• January
• Canoe Trip
• November 8th

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Grading/Homework

• Grades 45 tests, 40 quizzes, and 15
  classwork/homework

Homework Please check my website for
assignments on the Calendar. Fifth grade is
listed in red. Students will also write in their
planners at the end of each day.
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Discipline

• If a student disrupts a class to the point where
  instruction or activity stops, they will receive
  a demerit and it will be reported to Mr.
  Driscoll.
• Demerits will be communicated to Mr. Driscoll
• Three demerits in a week loss of one lunch
  recess
• Five demerits in a week loss of both lunch
  recesses
• If it is is an egregious disruption, requiring a
  student sent out of the room, the teacher who has
  sent the student out must email the parent that
  day.
• The student will automatically lose both
  recesses as this behavior is beyond a demerit.

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Grammar and Writing

• Both classes meet together in the morning
• from 830 920
• Writing Process each quarter a different style
  descriptive, expository, persuasive, and
  narrative plus letter writing.
• Grammar every aspect of sentence structure and
  parts of speech.
• All skills continue to be practiced as new skills
  are introduced.

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Welcome to Fifth Grade Math

• Schedule
• Mr. Driscolls Class
• 920 1010
• Mrs. Deliuss Class
• 1010 1100

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Two Approaches to Math

• Key areas are worked together
• Chapters in the book all individualized.
• Math Bees

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Key Areas of Mastery

• Computation
• Fractions
• Decimals
• Exponents
• Order of Operations
• Mixed Numbers
• Integers
• LCM/GCF

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Please email/call us anytime!

• 407-862-1882 ext 131
• ldelius_at_sweetwaterepiscopal.org
• 407- 862-1881 ext 231
• jdriscoll_at_sweetwaterepiscopal.org