5th Grade Curriculum
Below is the Core Curriculum for Kindergarten classes.
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
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