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
Junior Achievement |
Medieval Times Field Trips |