Reading-Language Arts

• Word Analysis, Fluency, and Systematic Vocabulary Development
• Reading Comprehension
• Literary Response and Analysis
• Writing Strategies
• Writing Applications
• Written and Oral English Language Conventions
• Listening and Speaking Strategies
• Speaking Applications
  
  

Mathematics

By the end of grade five, students increase their facility with the four basic arithmetic operations applied to fractions, decimals, and positive and negative numbers. They know and use common measuring units to determine length and area and know and use formulas to determine the volume of simple geometric figures. Students know the concept of angle measurement and use a protractor and compass to solve problems. They use grids, tables, graphs, and charts to record and analyze data.

History-Social Science

United States History and Geography: Making a New Nation

Students in grade five study the development of the nation up to 1850, with an emphasis on the people who were already here, when and from where others arrived, and why they came. Students learn about the colonial government founded on Judeo-Christian principles, the ideals of the Enlightenment, and the English traditions of self-government. They recognize that ours is a nation that has a constitution that derives its power from the people, that has gone through a revolution, that once sanctioned slavery, that experienced conflict over land with the original inhabitants, and that experienced a westward movement that took its people across the continent. Studying the cause, course, and consequences of the early explorations through the War for Independence and western expansion is central to students fundamental understanding of how the principles of the American republic form the basis of a pluralistic society in which individual rights are secured.

Science

1. Elements and their combinations account for all the varied types of matter in the world.
2. Plants and animals have structures for respiration, digestion, waste disposal, and transport of materials.
3. Water on Earth moves between the oceans and land through the processes of evaporation and condensation.
4. Energy from the Sun heats Earth unevenly, causing air movements that result in changing weather patterns.
5. The solar system consists of planets and other bodies that orbit the Sun in predictable paths.
6. Scientific progress is made by asking meaningful questions and conducting careful investigations. Students should develop their own questions and perform investigations.