Fifth Grade Learning Expectations

The learning expectations listed below are for fifth grade. Students will be assessed based on their progress toward meeting these grade-level expectations.

Health Expectations

1. The student acquires the knowledge and skills necessary to maintain a healthy life: recognizes patterns of growth and development, reduces health risks, and lives safely.

• 1.1 Develops ways to increase self-esteem, coping, and decision-making skills
• 1.2 Develops healthy relationships with friends and family
• 1.3 Knows about the reproductive system and body changes at puberty Increases knowledge about drug, alcohol and tobacco-related illness
• 1.4 Develops knowledge about the cause, transmission, and prevention of sexually transmitted diseases, especially HIV/AIDS
• 1.5 Develops abstinence skills for healthy choices