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Fifth Grade Curriculum Guide
Religion:
Your child will learn about:
- The Nicene and Apostles Creeds
- The Seven Sacraments
- The Liturgical Year
- Parts of the liturgy
- Ways to pray
- God’s word through the study of Scripture
- Respect for all of God’s creations
- Family life
Writing:
Your child will learn to:
- Use the 6 trait writing process: pre-writing, compose, evaluate, revise, edit, and publish
- Apply correct capitalization and punctuation
- Write coherent paragraphs using complete sentences
- Develop writing skills that emphasizes major writing form, purposes, and processes and that connects reading to writing
- Develop writing skills using the 4-square method for organizing thought and ideas.
Reading:
Your child will learn to:
- Read fluently using decoding skills, vocabulary development, and context clues
- Participate in self-selected reading
- Use strategies for comprehension such as: identify purpose for reading,
follow
directions, infer main idea, develop a summary, determine cause/effect, character
development, and interpret diagrams/charts in text - Read and respond to various literary genres (fiction, nonfiction, biography, poetry, etc.) for enrichment, recreation and lifelong learning
- Locate information using traditional and electronic text
Spelling:
Your child will learn to:
- Spell a list of words selected by the teacher which focuses on a new spelling pattern each week
Math:
Your child will learn to:
- Understand place value using decimals and commas
- Multiply whole numbers up to four digits
- Divide whole numbers by a two digit divisor, with or without a remainder
- Add, subtract, multiply and divide decimals
- Determine factors and multiples of numbers
- Identify equivalent fractions
- Add and subtract fractions and mixed numbers
- Understand basic geometry skills
- Solve one variable expressions
- Develop and interpret graphs, charts, and tables from data
- Compute mean, median, and mode
- Apply problem solving strategies to word problems and other applications
Science:
Your child will:
- Use the scientific method to solve problems
- Identify the various stages in the life cycle of salmon.
- Explore food chemistry, ecosystems, and motion & design using inquiry based activities.
Social Studies:
Your child will learn to:
- Develop directional skills and mapping
- Understand the reasons for studying history and an awareness of how we learn from the past
- To become familiar with the early explorers of North America and their impact on the development of the United States
- Develop an understanding of the causes of the Revolutionary War and the government created as a result of the conflict
Activities:
- Field trips are planned for various curriculum enrichment activities including science and social studies
- Beginning Band
- Raise and release salmon each spring in conjunction with field trips to view salmon spawning and a visit to a fish hatchery
- Monthly activities with Reach group
- Squire Choir
- Kostka Club
Computer Technology:
Your child will learn:
- Proper keyboarding techniques
- Word processing and Excel spreadsheet
- Give presentations to classmates using Power Point.
February 2005