The fifth grade Religion Curriculum focuses mainly on the seven sacraments. Throughout the year, the students will develop a deeper understanding of their personal relationship with God and their individual role as a part of the Body of Christ. The students will also study the following:
- Jesus Christ, human and divine
- Jesus Christ and the Kingdom of God
- Ways in which our lives are blessed
- Welcoming, forgiving and healing
- The Church carries on Jesus mission
- Signs and symbols
- The seven Sacraments of the Catholic Church: Reconciliation, Eucharist, Baptism, Confirmation, Reconciliation, Anointing of the sick, Matrimony and Holy Orders
- The Liturgical Year, seasons of the Church, feast days of Mary and the Saints
- Gifts of the Holy Spirit
- Parts of Mass
English Curriculum covers the fifth grade California Standards for Language Arts. The beginning of the year will be spent improving writing skills such as exact word, expanding sentences and practicing proofreading and revision skills. Other topics we will cover include:
Part I: Writing Skills
- Preparing word maps and outlines
- Using transition words to write descriptive and how-to paragraphs
- Writing reports
- Writing a tall tale
- Writing a fantasy story
- Writing opinions about books
- Monthly poetry lessons
- Writing social and business letters
- Using appropriate reference books to find specific information
- Participate in Writers Workshop
Part II: Grammar, Correct Usage and Mechanics
- Weekly spelling and vocabulary
- Punctuation
- Proofreading marks
- Capitalization
- Bibliographies in MLA style
- Nouns, pronouns, adjectives, verbs, adverbs and prepositions
Our Mathematics Curriculum directly correlates with the NCTM Standards. The students will constantly build on prior learning and number sense and continually re-examine past lessons. We will study the following:
- Place value to billions
- Standard, expanded, and written form of numbers
- Comparing and ordering numbers
- Addition and multiplication properties/ subtraction rules
- Addition: three or more addends
- Multiplying three digits and meaning of multiplication
- Division patterns, three-digit quotients and two-digit divisors
- Compatible numbers
- Explore prime and composite numbers
- Greatest Common Factor
- Multiples: LCM and LCD
- Fractions ( this will be a large portion of the class)
- Geometry (classifying, quadrilaterals, angles and triangles, circles and perimeter)
- Decimals
The Science Curriculum is organized into four content strands under the California Standards. The Students will explore Life Science, Earth Science, Physical Science as well as Investigation and Experimentation skills. Several topics we will cover include:
- Science Process Skills (Observe, Compare, Classify...)
- Single cells to body systems
- Classifying living things
- Plants and their adaptations
- Plant processes
- Earths air and water
- Weather
- Weather prediction and climate
- Earth and the moon
- Moon phases
- Solar system (model, planet report and poster)
- Matter and its properties
- Atoms and Elements
- Energy
- Renewable and nonrenewable resources
- How people use energy
Fifth Grade Social Studies focuses on United States History. We begin our understanding of the history of our country by learning about Americas land and the first Americans. We discuss how Exploration and English settlement changed the way people thought about the world. We spend a good portion of the year learning about the thirteen colonies and the American Revolution. In keeping with these themes we will study:
- Map skills
- Regions and geography of the U.S.
- States and Capitals
- Ancient Americans
- The silk road/ Northwest Passage
- Spanish Explorers
- Settlements of Roanoke and Jamestown
- Life in the Colonies
- Geography in the Colonies
- The French and Indian War
- Revolutionary war
- Declaration of Independence
- Constitution and Bill of Rights
- Founding fathers (Washington, Hamilton, Jefferson...)
- Democracy
Our Reading Curriculum will include assignments from our literature book as well as selected novels. The students will sharpen their reading skills and challenge their thinking. We will read Bridge to Terabithia, Bud, Not Buddy, My Side of the Mountain and either Esperanza Rising or From The Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler. The students will study:
- Comprehension
- Generalizing
- Sequencing Events
- Character
- Main idea
- Setting
- Cause and Effect
- Authors Purpose
- Point of View
- Steps in a process
- Graphic Sources
- Summarizing
- Fact and Opinion
Fifth Grade Summer Reading List:
Anne Frank, The Diary of a Young Girl
by Anne Frank
Chasing Redbird
by Sharon Creech
Dear Mr. Henshaw
by Beverly Cleary, Paul O. Zelinsky (illus.)
Frindle
by Andrew Clements, Brian Selznick (illus.)
From the Mixed-up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler
by E. L. Konigsburg
Holes
by Louis Sachar
In the Year of the Boar and Jackie Robinson
by Bette Bao Lord, Marc Simont (illus.)
Island of the Blue Dolphins
by Scott ODell
Matilda
by Roald Dahl, Quentin Blake (illus.)
Mick Harte Was Here
by Barbara Park
My Daniel
by Pam Conrad
Number the Stars
by Lois Lowry
Shiloh
by Phyllis Reynolds Naylor
The View from Saturday
by E. L. Konigsburg
Wait Till Helen Comes, A Ghost Story
by Mary Downing Hahn
Walk Two Moons
by Sharon Creech
The Warm Place
by Nancy Farmer
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