Since students are allowed to correct homework below 80%, JMC grades will be updated every two weeks.
At mid-quarter students need to have 50% of their AR goal.
Good times to contact us are from 8:25 – 9:00 or after 3:00 p.m.
Heidi Mack
Lynn Plass
Monday, Tuesday, and Thursday Schedule
8:20 – 8:50 Accelerated Reader Time
8:45 – 9:10 Library Plass on Tuesday and Steffel on Thursday
8:50 – 9:15 Writing/Lang. Arts
9:15 – 10:05 Music/Phy Ed/ Tech
10:10 – 11:05 Math
11:05 – 11:45 Social
11:50 – 12:30 Lunch/Recess
12:35 – 1:45 Lang. Arts Block
1:45 – 2:25 Science
2:30 – 2:50 Study Hall/Assignment Books
Wednesday Schedule (through early Dec.)
8:20 – 8:50 Accelerated Reader Time
8:50 – 9:15 Writing/Lang. Arts
9:15 – 10:05 Music/Phy Ed/ Tech
10:10 – 11:05 Math
11:05 – 11:45 Social
11:50 – 12:30 Lunch/Recess
12:35 – 1:10 Lang. Arts
1:10 – 1:50 Science(Steffel) DARE (Plass)
1:55 – 2:45 DARE(Steffel) Social (Plass)
2:45 – 2:50 Assignment Books
Friday Schedule
8:25 – 8:35 Spelling Test
8:35 – 9:15 Science(Steffel) Social (Plass)
9:15 – 10:05 Music/Phy Ed/Tech
10:10 – 11:05 Math
11:05 – 11:45 Social
11:50 – 12:30 Lunch/Recess
12:35 – 1:00 Accelerated Reader Time(Steffel) Lang. Arts (Plass)
1:00 – 1:35 Lang. Arts(Steffel)
1:00 – 1:50 Art (Plass)
1:35 – 1:50 Bully Lesson (Steffel)
1:50 – 2:10 Lang. Arts (Plass)
1:50 – 2:40 Art(Steffel)
2:10 – 2:30 Accelerated Reader Time (Plass)
2:30 – 2:45 Bully Lesson ( Plass)
2:40 – 2:50 Assignment Books
Visible Curriculum
Class: Math
Teacher/Teachers: Steffel/Plass
Grade/Grades: 5
Length: all year
Textbook: None
Publisher: Dale Seymour Publications
Copyright: 1998
State Standards Covered by this Class:
- Academic Standards: Apply skills of mathematical representation, communication and reasoning throughout the remaining four content strands.
- Academic Standards: Represent fractions, decimals and whole numbers in a variety of ways, to quantify information and to solve real-world and mathematical problems. Understand the concept of negative numbers.
- Academic Standards: Compute fluently and make reasonable estimates with fractions, decimals, and whole numbers, in real-world and mathematical problems. Understand the meanings of arithmetic operations and how they relate to one another.
- Academic Standards: Understand and describe patterns in numbers, shapes, tables and graphs.
- Academic Standard: Represent mathematical relationships using equations.
- Academic Standard: Represent data and various measures associated with data to draw conclusions and identify trends.
- Academic Standard: Model simple probabilities by displaying the outcomes for real-world and mathematical problems.
- Academic Standard: Understand the concepts of reflection and rotation symmetry as applied to two-dimensional shapes.
- Academic Standard: Sort, classify, compare and describe two and three dimensional objects.
- Academic Standard: Measure and calculate length, area and capacity using appropriate tools and units to solve real-world and mathematical problems.
Class Description
Students spend time exploring problems in depth. They find more than one solution to many of the problems they work on. They
invent their own strategies and approaches, rather than rely on memorized procedures. They choose from a variety of concrete materials and appropriate technology, including calculators, as a natural part of their everyday mathematical work. They express their mathematical thinking
through drawing, writing, and talking. They work in a variety of groupings-as a whole class, individually, in pairs, and in small groups. They move around the classroom as they explore the mathematics in their environment and talk with their peers.
1st Quarter
- Chapters Covered: Mathematical Thinking & Picturing Polygons
- Syllabus : Units: Mathematical Thinking at Grade 5
- Relationships among landmarks of 100, 1000, and 10,000
- Computational strategies that rely on landmarks up to 10,000
- Using number characteristics to solve problems
- Exploring number composition through repeated addition, skip counting, finding factors and factor pairs, and using a calculator to check divisibility
- Magnitude of numbers through 10,000
- Units: Picturing Polygons
- Properties of regular an nonregular polygons, particularly triangles and quadrilaterals
- Generating geometric figures with certain properties using Geo-Logo, shape pieces, and coordinate grid paper
- Coordinate grids
- Relationships among turns, angles, and other characteristics of polygons
- Similar polygons
2nd Quarter
- Chapters Covered: Name that Portion & Between Never and Always
- Syllabus: Units: Name That Portion
- Equivalent fractions, decimals, and percents
- Relationships among fractions, form halves to twelfths
- Comparing and ordering fractions, decimals, and percents using a variety of models
- Choosing and using models and notation to compute with fractions, decimals, and percents
- Breaking fractions, decimals, and percents into familiar parts
- Planning, conducting, and presenting surveys
- Units: Between Never and Always
- Verbal and numeric descriptions of probability
- Interpreting probability as a measure of quantity
- Using probability to select events most likely to occur
- Features of distributions of chance events, including center, shape, and variability
- Fair games
3rd Quarter
- Chapters Covered: Patterns of Change & Containers and Cubes
- Syllabus: Units: Patterns of Change
- Building, extending, and describing tile patterns that grow according to regular number patterns
- Making, interpreting, and comparing tales, graphs, and stories that show accumulated distance and speed
- Relationships among distance, time, and speed
- Comparing graph shapes to describe rates of growth
- Relating position/time and velocity/time graphs
- Units: Containers and Cubes
- Volume and units of volume
- Determining the volume of rectangular prisms, rooms, containers, and geometric solids
- Appropriate units of volume
- Relating dimensions of a shape to its volume
4th Quarter
- Chapters Covered: Data:Kids, Cats, and Ads
- Syllabus: Units: Data: Kids, Cats, and Ads
- Collecting, compiling, organizing, representing, and analyzing data
- Relationships between variable in a data set
- Medians and other fractional parts of data sets
- Strategies for finding representative samples
- Making theories, statements, conclusions, and recommendations based on organized data
- Estimation the size of and finding equivalents to fractions in order to combine and compare them
Special Materials and Procedures required for the class: Calculators
Math For Today teacher resource
Various supplemental computation worksheets
Visible Curriculum
Class: Spelling
Teacher/Teachers: Steffel/Plass
Grade/Grades: 5th
Length: 45 minutes
Textbook: Fantasy Voyage
Publisher: Scott Foresman
Copyright: 2004
State Standards Covered by this Class
- The student will apply standard English conventions when writing.
- Edit written documents for correct spelling.
- Spell roots, suffixes, prefixes, contractions, and syllable constructions correctly.
Class Description
In Spelling we cover five skills in a unit.
The following is the order of a typical week.
Monday – pretest
Tuesday – practice book
Wedensday – practice book
Thursday – practice book
Friday – test
1st Quarter
- Chapters Covered: Units 1 & 2
- Syllabus : Unit 1-
- r-controlled vowels
- vowel digraphs
- dipthongs
- common word patterns
- complex patterns
- Unit 2-
- complex patterns
- silents consonants
- hard/soft c& g
- compound words
2nd Quarter
- Chapters Covered: Units 2, 3, &4
- Syllabus: Unit 2-
- words with prefixes
- Unit 3-
- base words
- regular/irregular plurals
- contractions
- cities/states
- possessives
- Unit 4-
- possessives
- iflected endings (ed, ing)
3rd Quarter
- Chapters Covered: Units 4 & 5
- Syllabus: Unit 4-
- inflected endings (er, est)
- schwa sounds
- schwa sounds – within words endings
- Unit 5 –
- complex patterns
- suffixes – prefixes
- syllabication
- word building – related words
4th Quarter
- Chapters Covered: Unit 6
- Syllabus: Unit 6-
- vowel digraphs – word building
- dipthongs and vowels
- controlled vowels – schwa sounds
- complex patterns
- word building
Visible Curriculum
Class: Social Studies
Teacher/Teachers: Plass
Grade/Grades: 5th
Length: 45 minutes
Textbook: Building A Nation
Publisher: Scott Foresman
Copyright: 2005
State Standards Covered by this Class
- The student will understand that large and diverse American Indian nations were the original inhabitants of North America.
- The student will demonstrate knowledge of European exploration of the North American continent and the resulting interaction with American Indian nations.
- The student will demonstrate knowledge of the colonies and the factors that shaped colonial North America.
- The student will demonstrate an understanding of the causes and course of the American Revolution.
- The student will demonstrate knowledge of how the principles of the
- American Revolution became the foundation of a new nation.
- The student will demonstrate knowledge of western expansion, conflict, and reform in America.
- The student will demonstrate knowledge of the causes of the Civil War.
- The student will demonstrate knowledge of major events and people of the Civil War.
- Class Description: In Social Studies we study American History. We learn about the first settlers to North America through Reconstruction after the
- Civil War.
1st Quarter
- Chapters Covered: Unit 1, mapping, Exploration Game
- Syllabus : In unit 1 we learn about early life on the North American Continent.
- We cover the Eastern and Western cultures.
- We create a Native American project.
- Also, we go over mapping skills.
- Lastly prepare for the Discovery III exploration game.
2nd Quarter
- Chapters Covered: Discovery III, Chapter 7, and Unit 4
- Syllabus: In Discovery III the students actually become new world explorers and travel to the new world. They have to survive and prosper there. Chapter 7 is the “Fight for a Continent.”
- Unit 4 is about the American Revolution and the Fight for Independance.
- The students perform plays of key events during that time period.
3rd Quarter
- Chapters Covered: Unit 5 and Unit 6
- Syllabus: Unit 5 covers life in the new nation. Setting up our countrys government and learning about the branches of government.
- Unit 6: How our nation grew. Western expansion and industrial growth.
4th Quarter
- Chapters Covered: Slavery game and Unit 7
- Syllabus: In the slavery game the students become part of the underground railroad and experience the attitudes of people during that time period.
- Unit 7: They discover why the Civil War happened, fought the war was fought and how we had to rebuild our country.
Special Materials and Procedures required for the class:
We also have Daily Geography every week.
- In 2nd quarter students are tested on all 50 states (location, spelling, and abbreviations).
- In 3rd quarter they are tested on the capials of the states.
- In 4th quarter they are tested on the presidents.
Visible Curriculum
Class: Language Arts
Teacher/Teachers: Steffel/Plass
Grade/Grades: 5th
Length: 45 minutes
Textbook: Fantastic Voyage
Publisher: Scott Foresman
Copyright: 2004
State Standards Covered by this Class
- The student will compose various pieces of writing.
- The student will engage in a writing process, with attention to organization, focus, quality of ideas, audience and a purpose.
- The student will apply standard English conventions when writing.
- The student will locate and use information in reference materials.
- The student will write legibly and demonstrate effective keyboarding skills.
- The student will demonstrate understanding and communicate effectively through listening and speaking.
- The student will critically analyze information found in electronic and print media, and will use a variety of these sources to learn about a topic and represent ideas.
Class Description
We use a Grammar Handbook to learn the skills from. We practice the skills using the Grammar Practice Book. We also write numerous compositions; using the variious writing styles. Also practicing the writing process.
1st Quarter
- Chapters Covered: Units 1 & 2
- Syllabus : We have five skills learned with each unit. A unit test is given after each unit. Also, weekly writing assignments are given.
- Unit 1 –
- complete sentences
- subjects/predicates
- 4 kinds of sentences
- compound/complex sentences
- fragments and run-ons
- Unit 2 –
- nouns
- proper nouns
- plural nouns
- possessive nouns
2nd Quarter
- Chapters Covered: Units 2&3&4
- Syllabus: We have five skills learned with each unit. A unit test is given after each unit. Also, weekly writing assignments are given.
- Unit 2 –
- commas in a series, direct address, and appositives
- Unit 3 –
- verbs
- subject/verb agreement
- verb tenses
- using correct verb tenses
- Unit 4 –
- eliminating wordiness
3rd Quarter
- Chapters Covered: Units 4 & 5
- Syllabus: We have five skills learned with each unit. A unit test is given after each unit. Also, weekly writing assignments are given.
- Unit 4 –
- adjectives
- using adjectives to improve sentences
- comparative and superlative adjectives
- adverbs
- using adverbs to improve sentences
- Unit 5 –
- pronouns
- subject and object pronouns
- pronouns and their referents
- prepositions and phrases
- conjunctions
4th Quarter
- Chapters Covered: Unit 6
- Syllabus: We have five skills learned with each unit. A unit test is given after each unit.
- Also, weekly writing assignments are given.
- Unit 6-
- review sentences
- capitalization
- commas
- quotations and marks
- review
Research paper
Visible Curriculum
Class: Reading
Teacher/Teachers: Steffel/Plass
Grade/Grades: 5th
Length: 55 minutes
Textbook: Fantastic Voyage
Publisher: Scott Foresman
Copyright: 2004
State Standards Covered by this Class
- The student will decode unfamiliar words using phonetic and structural analysis and will read with fluency and expression.
- The student will use a variety of strategies to expand reading, listening and speaking vocabularies.
- The student will understand the meaning of texts using a variety of strategies and will demonstrate literal, interpretive, inferential and evaluative comprehension.
Class Description
The student will understand the meaning of texts using a variety of strategies and will demonstrate literal, interpretive, inferential and evaluative comprehension. The student will actively engage in the reading process and read, understand, respond to, analyze, interpret, evaluate and appreciate a wide variety of fiction, poeticand nonfiction texts.
1st Quarter
- Chapters Covered: Units 1 & 2
- Syllabus : There are five stories in every unit. We read each story and do the connected work. At the end of each unit there is a unit test.
2nd Quarter
- Chapters Covered: Units 2&3
- Syllabus: Same as the last description.
3rd Quarter
- Chapters Covered: Units 4 & 5
- Syllabus:
4th Quarter
- Chapters Covered: Unit 6
- Syllabus: We will also enhance the reading series with novels. We will read as a whole class or in small groups. Activies will be done to go with the novel, and to work on the skills we have been studying in the series.
AR is also a big part of our reading program
Every student receives a goal based on ability. They are graded on acheiving the goal and the
percent right on the tests taken.
