Below is the Core Curriculum for the 5th Grade.

Language Arts

Listening and Speaking

• Listening in order to appreciate and evaluate stories, plays, reports
• Listening in order to follow oral directions
• Using acceptable pronunciation and spoken communication skills

Reading and Literature

• Identifying main ideas, sequence of events, and cause/effect
• Reading a variety of literature for pleasure and information
• Applying knowledge of comprehension skills to all subject areas
• Understanding a selection's story elements
• Decoding, phonics, vocabulary skills
• Learning study skills including note taking and use of various references

Written Expression

• Recognizing and using different types of sentences
• Using appropriate language and grammar to express ideas in complete sentences and paragraphs
• Using various types of writing (creative, journal, letter, report, persuasive, etc.)
• Using the writing process
• Using major principles and patterns of English spelling and strategies

Social Studies

• Understanding major geographical features of the earth using map and globe skills
• Studying American history from discovery, exploration, colonization and expansion to the present
• Developing an appreciation of other countries in North America and Latin America
• Developing an appreciation for being a United States citizen in a world community
• Understanding current events: local, national, and worldwide using various resources
• Continuing to use various reference sources to enhance Social Studies curriculum

Science

• Learning process skills of hypothesizing, collecting data, analyzing results, and drawing conclusions
• Studying Life Science: plant genetics
• Studying Physical Science: weather, climate, seasons, minerals, atoms, cells force, work, machines, laws of motion, gravity, and solar energy and its uses

Math

Numeration

• Reading and writing to the billions place
• Rounding off whole numbers and decimals
• Using estimation skills

Operations with Whole Number, Decimals, and Fractions

• Reviewing and extending addition, subtraction, multiplication, division and problem solving strategies

Probability and Statistics

• Collecting, analyzing and organizing data into tables, charts, graphs, and diagrams

Geometry and Measurement

• Becoming familiar with common metric and customary units
• Studying geometric shapes and principles

Ratio, Proportion, Percent

• Understanding the concepts of ratio, proportion, and percent

Physical Education

• Understanding personal health-related and physical fitness
• Understanding, assessing, achieving and developing personal fitness plans
• Participating in instructional units on various sports including: paticipation, rules review, strategy for success, and skill development
• Developing social skill through play and competition 

Library

• Listening to appreciate and evaluate a variety of literary styles and techniques
• Continuing to explore the depth of research materials available including online resources
• Understanding the Dewey Decimal System as the basis for library organization around the world
• Achieving independence in finding library materials by subject, author and title 

Health Education

• Defining first aid, learning proper skills for emergencies and explaining how to avoid risky situations
• Exploring growing up physically and emotionally while emphasizing responsibilities of maturing adolescents
• Discussing the use, misuse, and abuse of drugs
• Indentifying the circulatory system and its connection with the respiratory system
• Explaining blood and blood borne diseases and blood's role in our immune system

Vocal Music

• Learning about different voicing (soprano, alto, tenor, bass)
• Building a repertoire of contemporary songs, 2-part songs and countermelodies to study harmony
• Studying music of Colonial and Civil War eras
• Learning about lives and music of specific composers (Beethoven, Sousa, Copland)
• Studying musical forms such as "opera", "symphony", "concerto"
• Learning about and performing music of different world cultures

Instrumental Music

• Memorizing major scales
• Improving listening skills and phrasing
• Understanding articulations: mixed articulations, portamento
• Studying dynamics: pp, ff, dim, cresc., mp, mf, sfz
• Keeping a steady tempo, accelerando, ritard, rubato
• Understanding musical terms: portanmento, interval, repeats, acccidentals, enharmonic tones, chorale, solo, duet, trio, octave, compound time, major and minor scales
• Learning additional time signatures: 3/8 fast and slow 6/8, irregular meters and key signatures: Concert C, A-flat, changes of key within pieces
• Understanding rhythm patterns

Art

• Using visual art as a form of expression by making and talking about art
• Exploring 3-D geometric shapes
• Creating more complex works of art based on observation, recall, and imagination
• Further developing drawing skills, stressing proper proportions, and details in animals, people, and objects
• Further developing drawing in perspective
• Continuing to add to student portfolio, as well as to receive it in June