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5th Grade Curriculum Guide

Reading

Types of Literature:

  • Historical Fantasy

  • Biography

  • Non-fiction books

  • Poetry


Skill Sets:

  • Characterization

  • Summarizing

  • Reinforcing

  • Comprehension skills

  • Quarterly book reports


Oral Reading:

  • Fluency

  • Expression


Word Study:

  • Vocabulary

  • Greek and Latin roots


Novel Studies:

Including:

  • A Wrinkle in Time

  • Island of the Blue Dolphins

  • The Silver Chair

  • Harriet Tubman Freedom Train

  • Open Court reader

  • Junior Great Books


Language Arts

Produce a variety of writing types.

  • Autobiographical

  • Report of Information

  • Narrative

  • Persuasive

  • Letter format

  • Poetry

Write fluently and neatly in cursive.


Grammar:

  • Nouns

  • Pronouns

  • Verbs

  • Subjects

  • Predicates

  • Conjunctions

  • Adjectives

  • Adverbs

  • Prepositions

  • Diagramming Sentences

Math

Fractions:

  • LCD, GCF and LCM,

  • add, subtract, and multiply mixed numbers and fractions,

  • convert fractions to decimals


Decimals:

  • add, subtract, multiply and divide decimals


Measurement:

  • Name angles

  • Area

  • Volume

  • Perimeter


Mastery of basic facts:

  • Multiplication

  • Division


Comparative Number Analysis:

  • Ratio

  • Rate

  • Percent

  • Probability

History

Geography:

  • Lakes of the World

  • Regions of the United States


Meso-American Civilizations and European Exploration:

  • Aztec, Incan, and Mayan Cultures

  • European colonization

  • Trade and clash of cultures


Renaissance and Reformation:

  • Famous figures and their contributions

  • Rebirth of ideas

  • The Reformation


Age of Exploration and Settlers and Colonies:

  • European Exploration from the 1400 to the 1600s

  • Explorers: Dias, Vasco de Gama, Cabral, Columbus, Magellan, de Balboa, Cabot, Drake, Cartier, de Champlain, Hudson

  • Jamestown

  • Reasons for new colonies and settlements

  • Who the early colonists were


England

  • “Golden Age” to “Glorious Revolution”


Westward Expansion

  • The wild west

  • Impact on American culture

  • New discoveries and developments


The American Civil War

  • Famous leaders

  • Causes

  • Battles

  • Plight of newly emancipated slaves

  • Reconstruction

Science

Astronomy:

  • Earth

  • Moon

  • Sun

  • Solar System

  • Stars


Earth Science:

  • Plate tectonics

  • Earthquakes

  • Volcanoes


Weather:

  • Effects of solar energy

  • Atmosphere

  • Fronts


Physics:

  • Energy

  • Forces

  • Motion


Model Rocket Project:

  • Scientific Method

  • Science fair survey project including data collection, interpretation, and presentation

Theology

The Creed:

  • Creation,

  • Angels

  • The Fall From Grace

  • God’s People

  • God the Son

  • The Holy Spirit

  • The Church

  • The Call to Holiness


Saint Report


Prophet Study


Prayers:

  • The Apostle’s Creed

  • Grace before meals in Latin

Enrichment

Spanish:

  • Greetings and Introductions

  • Question Words

  • Reading and comprehension

  • Grammar and writing

  • Spanish speaking countries

  • Prayers


Music:

  • Elements of music

  • Music of the Catholic Church

  • Orchestral families

  • Harmonies and cannons


Visual Arts:

  • Renaissance Art,

  • 19th Century Art,

  • US Art


Physical Education:

  • Physical Fitness

  • Sportsmanship

  • Skills for team sports

  • Rules and practice for team sports

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