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Fifth Grade Curriculum
The Curriculum, as outlined below, represents the goals we have established for our students. It is our expectation that all students will work towards achieving these goals to the best of his/her ability. We offer a student centered learning environment designed to meet individual needs while developing a cooperative community spirit. To enhance their creative frontiers... this is our goal!
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Language Arts/Reading
- Stories and Speeches
- The Adventures of Tom Sawyer
- Julius Caesar
- Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
- The Iliad and the Odyssey
- Chief Joseph's "I will fight no more forever..."
- Gettysburg Address
- Poetry
- The Living World
- Humor
- American Themes
- Feelings and Ideas
- Learning About Language
- Direct and Indirect Objects
- Linking Verbs
- Personal Pronouns
- Silent and Oral Reading
- Dictionary for word meaning analysis
- Homophones and homographs
- Using a Thesaurus
- Parts of Sentences
- Cursive Handwriting
- Outlining
- Paragraph Writing
- Writing Essays, Letters, Stories, and Reports
- Preparing a Simple Bibliography
- Proofreading Skills
- Parts of a Newspaper
- Public Speaking
- Literature
- Tragedy and Comedy
- Literal and Figurative Language
- Sounds in Poetry
- Pen Names
- Shakespeare
- Sayings and Phrases
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Math
- Whole numbers
- Variables
- Billions
- Rounding
- Multiplying large factors
- Sets
- Decimals, Addition, Subtraction, and Multiplication
- Decimal Place Value
- Decimals on a Number Line
- Estimating Decimal Sums and Differences
- Multiplying Decimals
- Division
- Rules for Divisibility
- Short Division
- 2 and 3 digit Divisors
- Decimal Divisions
- Dividing Decimals by Whole Numbers
- Writing Zeros in the Dividend
- Dividing Whole Numbers without Remainders
- Fractions
- Greatest Common Factor
- Equivalent Fractions
- Lowest Terms
- Adding and Subtracting Mixed Numbers
- Multiplying Fractions and Whole Numbers
- Measurement
- Using Metric Units
- Changing Units in the Metric System
- Measuring length to a sixteenth of an inch
- Adding and Subtracting with different units
- Multiplying and Dividing with Time
- Plane Figures
- Measuring Angles
- Kinds of Triangles
- Rhombus
- Diagonals
- Perimeters
- Circles
- Area
- Metric Units of Area
- U.S. Customary Units of Area
- Finding the Area of a Triangle, Parallelogram, and other Figures
- Ratio, Scale, Percent, Average, Graphs
- Percents and Fractions
- Percents and Decimals
- Finding Averages
- Rectangular Prisms and Cubes
- Volume
- Rates and Speed
- Functions and Equations
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Fine Arts
- Music
- Melody and Chords
- Shapes of Melody
- Rhythm
- Mozart
- Beethoven
- Sousa
- Joplin
- The Orchestra
- Keyboards
- Visual Arts
- Gothic to Renaissance
- Harmony in the Human Form
- Artist Reports
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Science
- Life Sciences
- Cells
- Fungi, Protists, and Monerana
- Photosynthesis
- Reproduction
- Care and Growth of Young
- Growth Stages
- Adolescence and Puberty
- Human Reproductive System
- Dissection - Optional
- Physical Science
- Mechanical Concepts
- Transferring Heat and Energy
- Electricity
- Motion, Engines, and Motors
- Stories of Scientists
- Isaac Newton
- Anton Van Leeuwenhoek
- Ernest Just
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Geography
- The Prime Meridian
- Reference Points
- Map Scale
- The Arctic and Antarctic Circles
- Tropics
- Climate Zones
- Large Lakes of the World, and how they are Formed
- Regions of the United States
- Our Northern Neighbor Canada
- Geography of the U.S.
- Natural Resources of the U.S.
- Our Southern Neighbor Mexico
- Countries and Cultures of the Western Hemisphere
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World Civilization
- Indian Civilizations in the Americas
- European Exploration and Clash of Cultures
- Muslim control of Trade
- Early Portuguese Exploration
- Columbus
- DeGama and Cabral
- Magellan
- Zheng He
- Europe's New World Colonies
- Transatlantic Slave Trade
- East Africa
- Renaissance in Europe
- Islamic Civilization
- Medici Family
- City-States
- Art in Florence
- Printing Press and the Bible
- Martin Luther and Protestant Reformation
- John Calvin
- Henry VIII
- Elizabeth I
- Mary, Queen of Scots
- Spanish Armada
- Feudal Japan
- Russia
- Ivan the Great
- Ivan the Terrible
- Peter the Great
- Catherine the Great
- The Enlightenment
- The French Revolution
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American Civilization
- North and South
- Uncle Tom's Cabin
- The Dred-Scott Case
- Lincoln Douglas Debates
- The Argument over States Rights
- Confederacy
- Robert E. Lee
- Ulysses S grant
- The Emancipation Proclamation
- African American Troops in the Civil War
- Gettysburg
- Surrender at Appomattox
- Scalawags and Carpet Baggers
- The End of Reconstruction
- Westward Expansion
- Impact on Native Americans
- Gold
- Pony Express
- Transcontinental Railroad
- Cowboys and the Wild West
- Industry and Invention
- Industrialists, Capitalists, and Monopolies
- Working in Industrial Age
- Immigration to the Land of Opportunity
- Reformers and Reform Movements
- Farmers and the Rise of Populism
- Jane Addams and Hull House
- Reform for African-Americans
- Women Struggle for Equal Rights
- Theodore Roosevelt
- Cuban War for Independence and the Spanish-American War
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Physical Education
- Following game rules
- Team effort
- School basketball team
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Spanish, Library & Computer
- Specific detail and information for these curricula to follow
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