Content Specific Elementary Exit Standards

By the end of Grade 5 students will be able to:

LANGUAGE ARTS

• Develop proficiency in the areas of reading, writing, speaking, listening, and viewing.
• Construct meaning and respond thoughtfully to a variety of material from print, non-print, and electronic materials.
• Use a variety of strategies to create and develop meaningwhen reading, writing, listening, speaking, and viewing.
• Express questions, thoughts, interpretations, and opinions related to material from print, non-print, and electronic source content and purpose in both oral and written form.
• Develop stories, essays, and poems using the writing process.
• Read to learn and for pleasure.

MATHEMATICS

• Use mathematical skills, techniques, and applications to solve problems.
• Demonstrate an operational sense of the fact families in addition and subtraction through 18, and multiplication and division through the 9’s table.
• Demonstrate number sense by counting, comparing, estimating, and using place-value concepts in whole numbers, fractions, and decimals.
• Demonstrate spatial sense by describing, modeling, drawing, and classifying shapes, and relate geometric ideas to numbers and measurement ideas.
• Use mathematical reasoning to solve problems by applying number sense or using spatial relationships.
• Use common units of measure such as length, capacity, weight, area, volume, time, temperature, and angles.
• Select and use computational techniques appropriate to specific whole number problems, and determine whether the results are reasonable.
• Collect organize, and describe data.
• Explain verbally and in writing all taught mathematical concepts.

SCIENCE

• Make accurate observations involving biology, physical, and chemical characteristics.
• Describe how organisms share basic characteristics, which include life cycles that begin with birth and end with death.
• Describe why water is important for life.
• Diagram the earth and describe how it obtains its energy from the Sun.
• Demonstrate that matter has physical and chemical properties that can be changed.
• Use scientific instruments correctly in gathering data.
• Demonstrate how science, math, and technology are interrelated.

SOCIAL STUDIES

• Demonstrate an understanding of social studies units of study by acquiring, organizing, interpreting, and applying data from various forms of print and non-print material.
• Use historical statements and concepts to assist in decision-making about public issues.
• Recognize and apply distance, direction, scale, map symbols, latitude, and longitude through the use of maps and globes.
• Recognize and understand events, personalities, geographic and economic factors that have shaped the history and culture of Danbury, Connecticut and other regions of the United States.
• Demonstrate an understanding of the historical and economic events that created and transformed the new American Nation to 1800.

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INFORMATION LITERACY AND TECHNOLOGY

• State a simple research question, present research findings in a variety of formats, and compile a list of works cited for any presentation.
• Locate and use materials with appropriate guidance from a variety of sources including print, non-print, electronic, and the Internet to answer a research question.
• Select books and articles from the major literacy genres:  novels, short stories, poetry, and non-fiction for independent reading.
• Select, access and use software appropriate to a given task and create a multi-media presentation to communicate ideas.
• Follow Acceptable Use Policy Guidelines for safe and appropriate use of the Internet.

MUSIC

• Develop introductory listening, singing, movement, and instrumental skills.
• Read, understand, and apply basic musical notation and vocabulary.
• Discuss appropriate historical, cultural, and interdisciplinary elements of music.

• Demonstrate a basic knowledge of elements and principles of art and their creative application to two and three-dimensional design.
• Explore a variety of appropriate art methods, media, and subjects.
• Understand appropriate historical, cultural, and interdisciplinary elements of art.

PHYSICAL EDUCATION

• Demonstrate age appropriate form in the fundamental movement skills: locomotor, nonlocomotor, and selected manipulative skills.
• Recognize the personal physiological effects that accompany moderate to vigorous physical activity.
• Recognize the contributions that individual differences add to group activities.

HEALTH EDUCATION

• Explain how childhood injuries and illnesses can be prevented.
• Demonstrate the ability to locate school and community health helpers.
• Compare behaviors that are safe to behaviors that are risky or harmful.
• Explain how media influences thoughts, feelings, and health behaviors.
• Demonstrate the ability to apply a decision-making process to health issues and problems.