Curriculum in Fifth Grade

 

Religion-This is Our Faith

            Sacraments

            Story of Jesus-birth, death, and resurrection

            The Church-Mass, Seasons of the Church year, our parish church,

                        helping others, forgiveness

            Saints of the Church

            Prayers-Our Father, Hail Mary, Sign of the Cross, Meal Prayers

            Preparations of School Masses

 

Reading – Scott Foresman

            Read silently and orally

            Comprehension through guided reading and questions

            Skills practiced with Skills Practice Book

            Write sentences, paragraphs, stories, and other extended forms of

                        writing

            Journal writing

            Various novels read

            Accelerated Reading requirement

 

Math – Scott Foresman

            Reading and understanding Graphs/Charts

            Place Value Addition, Subtraction, Multiplication and Division with

                        whole numbers

            Addition, Subtraction, Multiplication, and Division with whole

                        numbers

            Fractions and Mixed Numbers

            Decimals, Percents

            Problem Solving

            Money

            Time

            Length, Perimeter, Area

 

Social Studies – Silver Burdett Ginn

            Maps and Globes

            Hemisphere and Directions

            Exploration and Settlements

            Colonies and New Nation

            Growth and Expansion

            Civil War and Reconstruction

 

 

 

 

 

Science – Discovery Works – Silver Burdett Ginn

            Plants

-         parts

-         cells

-         processes

-         reproduction

-         classification

Biomes/Food Webs

Solar System

Energy, work, and machines

Populations and Ecosystems

Light and Sound

Solid Earth

-         minerals

-         rock properties and classification

-         fossils

-         mountains/faults

 

Language Arts – McGraw Hill

 

Group and individual writing for the following forms of written expression

 

            Personal Narrative

            Stories

            Persuasive essays

            Letter writing

            Descriptive writing

            Varied poetry forms

 

Creation of a writing portfolio

 

Grammar study of:

                        Nouns

                        Pronouns

                        Adjectives

                        Adverbs

                        Sentence types

                        Prepositions

                        Verbs

 

Readers’ Theatre

                        Let’s Get Ready Advent play

 

Spelling- Scott Foresman

            Consonant and vowel sounds

            Learning to spell short and long vowel words

            Learning basic sight words

            Learning to spell words with blends and diagraphs

            Learning to spell suffixes, prefixes and homophones

            Adding “s” to nouns

            Proper capitalization

            Spelling test each Friday