Curriculum

Grade 5

1^st Trimester

Religion – In the beginning of the school year the religion will evolve around our Bible roots.  The fifth grade will learn and practice all the ins and outs of finding and reading Bible verses.  The children will learn about the epistles, and our Jewish ancestry, creation and God’s Gift of Love, Jesus, a sacrament.

Math – The fifth grade will begin with place value and number sense.  We will then review the 4 operations and learning the different properties.  Word problems will continue to be an integral part of this course study.

Integrated Language Arts - The Language Arts curriculum focuses on spelling, grammar, and vocabulary.  The students will continue to use Wordly Wise to enhance their knowledge of vocabulary.  Subjects, predicates, compound words, nouns, verbs, conjunctions and kinds of sentences will be studied.  They will also complete daily edits each week. 

Reading – The children will continue to use their basal readers organized by themes.  The objectives in the first 2 themes include predicting, inferring, sequencing of events, categorizing and classifying, evaluating, summarizing, clarifying, main idea and supporting details.

Writing – The goal of our writing workshop is to hone in on writing paragraphs that follow particular formats.  Focusing on sentence structure and parts of speech, the students will form strong paragraphs.  They will complete 2 of the 6 writing pieces required in the guidelines. 

Science – The fifth grade science guidelines include strong emphasis on the scientific process: thus the students will focus on questioning, observing, analyzing and hypothesizing.  Earth science is the topic for the first trimester.  Our focus will be  the solar system and astrology.

Social Studies – The Western Hemisphere is our focus this year.  The first trimester will be devoted to understanding the geography- where we are in the global community.  We will study longitude & latitude and we will begin the long up hill climb learning the states & capitals and regions.