Dear Parents,

Below is the curriculum and activities that the 5th grade students do throughout the year.

Curriculum

Reading:

• Anthology of stories both fiction and nonfiction
• Monthly book reports
• Skills developed: comprehension, inferences, main idea, problem/solution, context clues
• Separate vocabulary book with daily testing

Math:

• Place value of whole numbers and decimals
• All operations with whole numbers and decimals
• Estimation with whole numbers and decimals
• Analyzing data and graphs, construction graphs
• Number sense and logic
• Writing workable math problems
• Problem solving strategies
• Intro to Algebra, expressions and equations
• All operations with fractions
• Measurement both customary and metric
• Area and perimeter

Language Arts:

• Grammar and sentence structure
• Diagramming sentences
• Writing personal narratives
• How-to (written and oral presentation)
• Writing business letters, persuasive, descriptive, poetry
• Research papers

Social Studies:

• US geography
• Native Americans
• Age of Exploration
• The 13 colonies
• American Revolution
• The Civil War

Science:

• Animals
• Sound and Light
• Weather
• Earth and its changes
• Astronomy
• Lab experiments
• Written Lab Reports
• Understanding and application of the Scientific Method
• Projects (endangered animals, electricity, and anmial habitats)
• Science Studies Weekly Newspaper
• Super Science Magazine

Religion:

• Focus on the Sacraments
• Understanding the parts of the Mass
• Mass preparation
• Study of the special seasons of the church year
• Projects (saints, and service projects)

5th Grade Highlights