5TH GRADE

Daily Schedule Guide

8:00-8:30 OPENING ACTIVITIES
8:30-9:00 BIBLE
9:00-9:20 SNACK
9:20-12:00 *ACADEMICS/RECESS
12:00-12:30 LUNCH
12:30-2:45 *ACADEMICS/RECESS
2:45-3:00 END OF DAY PREP & RELEASE
*Daily Schedules Include Resource Classes: Chapel, Music, P.E., Technology, Art, Spanish, & World Cultures

Curriculum Overview

Language Arts: Reading & Literature: oral reading, reading comprehension, speed reading, vocabulary building. Penmanship: Review of cursive writing formation through skill practice, word games, original composition and sentence dictation. Spelling and Poetry: Weekly word list based on phonics and spelling rules, challenging words, and vocabulary. Reinforcement activities, six poems committed to memory. Language: sentence structure, kinds of sentences, punctuation and capitalizations facts, abbreviations, possessive words, letters-business, friendly, post cards, thank you notes, gathering information, writing with details, writing an encyclopedia report, writing book reports, dictionary skills. Grammar: Recognition and using all eight parts of speech, diagramming verbs, nouns, pronouns, adjectives, adverbs and correctly using troublesome words. 
History and Geography: Map study, state history, eight documents memorized, The Years of Discovery, The Years of Conquest, The First Americans, The English Come to America, The New England Colonies, The Middle and Southern Colonies, A Picture of Colonial Life, The Great Awakening, The French and Indian War, The American War for Independence, Building a New Nation, Civil War, Beyond our Boundaries, The World Wars and more.
Science: Plants, Animals, Matter, Energy, Earth and Space.
Health Safety and Manners: Physical Fitness, Personal Hygiene, Interpersonal Relationships.
Arithmetic: Place value, mastery of fundamental operations, estimating answers, converting measures, factoring, divisibility rules, decimals, solving equations, graphs & scale drawing, perimeter and area, time lapse.
Bible: Salvation Series, Genesis, Life of Christ, Paul, memory verses, hymns and songs.