Fifth Grade Course Description
English
• Grammar Usage and Mechanics
- The Sentence
- Nouns, Verbs, Adjectives, Capitalization, Punctuation, Pronouns,
Adverbs and Prepositions
• Writing, Listening, Speaking, and Viewing
- Understanding the Writing Process
- Writing Personal Narrative, Stories, Compare and Contrast,
Research Reports, Express an Opinion and Writing to Persuade
Reading
• Various Genres of Stories: Fantasy, Biography, Adventure, Folk
Tale, Realistic, etc.
• Reading Strategies: Comprehension, Fact and Opinion, Making
Inferences, Compare and Contrast, Context Clues, Cause & Effect
Problem and Solutions, Story Elements and Synonyms & Antonyms
• Study Skills
Social Studies
• American Indians
• The Age of Exploration
• New England, Middle, and Southern Colonies
• The American Revolution
• Governing the Nation
• Western Expansion
Math
• Whole Numbers, Decimals, and Integers
• Addition, Subtraction, and Equations
• Multiplication, Division, and Equations
• Measurement and Integers
• Data, Statistics, and Probability
• Number Theory and Addition and Subtraction of Fractions
• Multiplication and Division of Fractions
• Multiplication and Division of Decimals
• Geometry and Measurement
• Ratio and Percent
• Integers and the Coordinate Plane
Science
• Science as Inquiry
• Life Science, Physical Science, Earth Science, and Space Science
• Science and Technology
Spelling
• Handwriting
• Weekly Spelling test
Computers, Religion and Spanish