Fifth Grade Curriculum Guide
Religion
Identify the seven sacraments of the Catholic Church and understand the relationship to everyday life.
Discuss how individuals are a reflection of God’s love.
Discuss how the Eucharist is special to the Catholic Church.
Identify how their actions can carry out God’s work through service.
Relate the teachings of the church to their own lives.
Language Arts
Demonstrate continued development of spelling skills by writing paragraphs.
Know abbreviations for days of week, months, and titles.
Identify simple compound subjects, predicates, and sentences.
Demonstrate correct use of the writing process to develop a short story.
The learner will be able to interpret data to read and make graphs, diagrams, and tables.
Develop new vocabulary words using knowledge to root words, suffixes and prefixes, and context clues to gather meaning.
Understand and use figurative language such as alliteration, similes, and metaphors to make a story more interesting and entertaining.
Compare and contrast likenesses and differences between two story characters and situations in the story to every-day life.
Use the six traits criteria to evaluate and revise your writing.
Use details from a story to support an opinion or viewpoint.
Use knowledge of cause and effect relationships to infer events that may not be mentioned in the story.
Identify and use all 8 parts of speech
Social Studies
Describe key events and concepts in U.S. History related to selected themes.
Describe the contributions and importance of individuals who have made a significant difference in U.S. history.
Use a variety of sources in data gathering and reporting skills.
Interpret and apply information about the U.S. using maps, globes, charts, and graphs.
Discuss current events and happenings around the U.S. and how they effect us.
Life Skills DWP Skills 6-10
#6 Cooperation-to act or work with others for mutual benefit.
#7 Understanding Rules and the Reasons for Rules.
#8 Completing A Task-follow your plan and see the task through to the end, ask for help when needed, learn from the experience.
#9 Leadership-see the needs of others and consider them to be important, stand on the side of truth, act on behalf of another peer.
#10 Communication-shows a willingness to contribute to the conversation, be a focused listener, respect others’ points of view, allow laughter, avoid a negative attitude, be understanding, TALK.
Math
Apply basic math principles to users in the real world.
Review of basic math facts additions, subtraction, multiplying, dividing.
Choose the correct operation (addition, subtraction, multiplication and division) to solve problems.
Add, subtract, multiply and divide whole numbers, decimals, fractions and mixed numbers.
Interpret data to read and make graphs, diagrams, and tables.
Develop multiple strategies (pencil and paper, calculator, estimation) to solve problems.
Science
Understand that all things are made of matter and that matter can exist in different states depending on temperature or pressure.
Identify some major elements and identify physical or chemical changes in elements due to mixtures or solutions.
Identify natural forces such as motion, speed, inertia, friction, buoyancy and magnetism.
Discuss and apply the scientific process, identifying purpose, controlled and experimental groups.
Understand electricity as a property of all atoms and identify materials that would be good conductors and insulators.
Technology
Create reports within subject areas using word processing, database, spreadsheet, publishing software, Internet, slide shows and CAD drawings.
Review keyboarding
Media Literacy/Internet safety
Use of graphic organizers
Library
Library Skills and Arrangement
Genre Books
Book Talks
Reference Materials
Student Author Study Project
Literature Appreciation
Bibliographies
Research Skills
Music
Sing alone and with others a varied repertoire of music
Sing music written in one, two, and canon
Sing expressively
Have the option to participate in children’s liturgical choir
Respond to the cues of a director
Know songs from genres of diverse cultures
Read and notate music Know and apply appropriate criteria to music and music performance
Know and sing American Patriotic music
Learn ¾ meter
Folk dancing
Physical Education
Demonstrate a variety of basic and advanced movement forms.
Object control (batting, kicking…)
Sports skills and activities (chest pass, soccer dribble…)
Demonstrate beginning sport strategies
Lead-up games (SVB, beachball volleyball…)
Basic rules of the game
Demonstrate safety rules and care of equipment.
Participate as a responsible member in games and activities.
Follow the rules of the game.
Etiquette for specific activity
Sportsmanship
Demonstrate areas of physical fitness.
Strength
Endurance
Flexibility
Identify the seven sacraments of the Catholic Church and understand the relationship to everyday life.
Discuss how individuals are a reflection of God’s love.
Discuss how the Eucharist is special to the Catholic Church.
Identify how their actions can carry out God’s work through service.
Relate the teachings of the church to their own lives.
Language Arts
Demonstrate continued development of spelling skills by writing paragraphs.
Know abbreviations for days of week, months, and titles.
Identify simple compound subjects, predicates, and sentences.
Demonstrate correct use of the writing process to develop a short story.
The learner will be able to interpret data to read and make graphs, diagrams, and tables.
Develop new vocabulary words using knowledge to root words, suffixes and prefixes, and context clues to gather meaning.
Understand and use figurative language such as alliteration, similes, and metaphors to make a story more interesting and entertaining.
Compare and contrast likenesses and differences between two story characters and situations in the story to every-day life.
Use the six traits criteria to evaluate and revise your writing.
Use details from a story to support an opinion or viewpoint.
Use knowledge of cause and effect relationships to infer events that may not be mentioned in the story.
Identify and use all 8 parts of speech
Social Studies
Describe key events and concepts in U.S. History related to selected themes.
Describe the contributions and importance of individuals who have made a significant difference in U.S. history.
Use a variety of sources in data gathering and reporting skills.
Interpret and apply information about the U.S. using maps, globes, charts, and graphs.
Discuss current events and happenings around the U.S. and how they effect us.
Life Skills DWP Skills 6-10
#6 Cooperation-to act or work with others for mutual benefit.
#7 Understanding Rules and the Reasons for Rules.
#8 Completing A Task-follow your plan and see the task through to the end, ask for help when needed, learn from the experience.
#9 Leadership-see the needs of others and consider them to be important, stand on the side of truth, act on behalf of another peer.
#10 Communication-shows a willingness to contribute to the conversation, be a focused listener, respect others’ points of view, allow laughter, avoid a negative attitude, be understanding, TALK.
Math
Apply basic math principles to users in the real world.
Review of basic math facts additions, subtraction, multiplying, dividing.
Choose the correct operation (addition, subtraction, multiplication and division) to solve problems.
Add, subtract, multiply and divide whole numbers, decimals, fractions and mixed numbers.
Interpret data to read and make graphs, diagrams, and tables.
Develop multiple strategies (pencil and paper, calculator, estimation) to solve problems.
Science
Understand that all things are made of matter and that matter can exist in different states depending on temperature or pressure.
Identify some major elements and identify physical or chemical changes in elements due to mixtures or solutions.
Identify natural forces such as motion, speed, inertia, friction, buoyancy and magnetism.
Discuss and apply the scientific process, identifying purpose, controlled and experimental groups.
Understand electricity as a property of all atoms and identify materials that would be good conductors and insulators.
Technology
Create reports within subject areas using word processing, database, spreadsheet, publishing software, Internet, slide shows and CAD drawings.
Review keyboarding
Media Literacy/Internet safety
Use of graphic organizers
Library
Library Skills and Arrangement
Genre Books
Book Talks
Reference Materials
Student Author Study Project
Literature Appreciation
Bibliographies
Research Skills
Music
Sing alone and with others a varied repertoire of music
Sing music written in one, two, and canon
Sing expressively
Have the option to participate in children’s liturgical choir
Respond to the cues of a director
Know songs from genres of diverse cultures
Read and notate music Know and apply appropriate criteria to music and music performance
Know and sing American Patriotic music
Learn ¾ meter
Folk dancing
Physical Education
Demonstrate a variety of basic and advanced movement forms.
Object control (batting, kicking…)
Sports skills and activities (chest pass, soccer dribble…)
Demonstrate beginning sport strategies
Lead-up games (SVB, beachball volleyball…)
Basic rules of the game
Demonstrate safety rules and care of equipment.
Participate as a responsible member in games and activities.
Follow the rules of the game.
Etiquette for specific activity
Sportsmanship
Demonstrate areas of physical fitness.
Strength
Endurance
Flexibility