5th Grade

CURRICULUM

This year's curriculum includes. . . 

Reading

• Comprehension skills, including
  • Inferring
  • Connecting to the text
  • Questioning
  • Predicting
  • Identifying with characters
• Character study
• Historical fiction
• Non-fiction texts
• Book clubs

Writing

• Personal narratives
• Realistic fiction
• Personal essays
• Persuasive essays
• Literary essays
• Informational writing
• Historical fiction

Math

• Prime factorization and exponents
• Decimals through thousandths
• Number sense to 100,000
• Single variable algebra
• Relating fractions and decimals
• Adding/subtracting/multiplying/dividing fractions and decimals
• Data and statistics
• Coordinate graphing
• Percentages 
• Integers
• Geometry
• Problem solving

Social Studies

• US history, including:
  • Regions of the United States
  • Native American tribes
  • European explorers
  • Colonial period
  • The Revolutionary War 
  • The US Constitution
  • Branches of government
  • Western Expansion
  • Current events

Science

• The human body, including respiratory, digestive, excretory, reproductive, and circulatory systems
• Plant structures
• Evaporation and condensation
• Creation of weather patterns
• Elements and the composition of matter
• The solar system