Fifth Grade Curriculum

Curriculum

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Language Arts

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Bear Essentials Tiny school picture Grammar; Language Skills

Bear Essentials Tiny school picture Scott Foresman 5th Grade Reading Series; monthly book reports;

Bear Essentials Tiny school picture Novels chosen by 5th grade teachers

Bear Essentials Tiny school picture Continued work on reading comprehension and fluency

Bear Essentials Tiny school picture Spelling use of Everyday Spelling Series

Bear Essentials Tiny school picture Vocabulary -- Wordly Wise

Bear Essentials Tiny school picture Writing -- Expository,descriptive, persuasive, narrative, poetry, letters

Bear Essentials Tiny school picture Writing -- Essay writing; cross-curricular writing projects

Bear Essentials Tiny school picture Book Reports - practice in writing and speaking

Bear Essentials Tiny school picture Use of KidsPost and other newspapers and magazines (Time for Kids)

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Mathematics

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Bear Essentials Tiny school picture Place Value -- Whole Numbers, Decimals, Exponents, Number Sense

Bear Essentials Tiny school picture Multiplication/Dvision of Whole Numbers, factors, divisibility

Bear Essentials Tiny school picture Fraction Concepts -- Prime Numbers, GCF, LCM, equivalence

Bear Essentials Tiny school picture Addition/Subtraction of Fractions; Finding common denominators

Bear Essentials Tiny school picture Multiplication/Division of Fractions

Bear Essentials Tiny school picture Decimal Concepts; Add/Sub/Mult/Div Decimals; Money

Bear Essentials Tiny school picture Geometry

Bear Essentials Tiny school picture Measurement

Bear Essentials Tiny school picture Problem Solving

Bear Essentials Tiny school picture Use of Houghton Mifflin Math Series

Bear Essentials Tiny school picture Use of laptop computers to reinforce skill learned in class

Bear Essentials Tiny school picture Archdiocese of Washington Catholic Schools Mathematics Standards for 5th Grade:

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Science

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Bear Essentials Tiny school picture Earth; Erosion, Weathering, What the Earth is made of, earthquakes

Bear Essentials Tiny school picture Our atmosphere; the water cycle, causes of wind,

Bear Essentials Tiny school picture Weather, causes of local & global winds, precipitation, hurricanes, tides

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Bear Essentials Tiny school picture Satellites, space travel, tools to learn about space

Bear Essentials Tiny school picture Stars, galaxies, and the universe

Bear Essentials Tiny school picture The Plant Kingdom -- adaptations, parts of plant, processes

Bear Essentials Tiny school picture Use new Macmillan McGraw-Hill Science series: Science: A Closer Look

Bear Essentials Tiny school picture Students wil have access to many online tools, as well as an online student text

Bear Essentials Tiny school picture Students will do several Internet-based projects;

Bear Essentials Tiny school picture We have lab each week

Bear Essentials Tiny school picture We have a great series of science movies for reinforcement

Bear Essentials Tiny school picture We will be going in the fall to the Air & Space Museum, during our space unit

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Social Studies

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Bear Essentials Tiny school picture Geography of the United States and the world is a large part of our studies

Bear Essentials Tiny school picture Students will study maps of the US and the world

Bear Essentials Tiny school picture Use of Scott Foresman text, The United States, to explore the formation of our nation

Bear Essentials Tiny school picture Explorers and early colonization of the US

Bear Essentials Tiny school picture Native American Indians

Bear Essentials Tiny school picture The Colonial Period and the American Revolution

Bear Essentials Tiny school picture Creating an new government and the US Constitution and Bill of Rights

Bear Essentials Tiny school picture Westward Expansion and the Civil War

Bear Essentials Tiny school picture Students end the year with a study of immigration; concluding with our Immigration Project

Bear Essentials Tiny school picture Current news topics throughout the year are discussed, such as the Presidential Election

Bear Essentials Tiny school picture Students will learn about the three branches of government and their functions

Bear Essentials Tiny school picture Students refer to Time for Kids and KidsPost for news discusssions

Bear Essentials Tiny school picture We have Geography Week each year with many activities related to geography

Bear Essentials Tiny school picture Geography Week culminates with participation in a geography bee for grades 3-5

Bear Essentials Tiny school picture We also participate in a school-wide geography bee

Bear Essentials Tiny school picture We read several novels that relate to the colonial period and immigration

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Religion

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Bear Essentials Tiny school picture Most of fifth grade revolves around the study of the seven sacraments

Bear Essentials Tiny school picture We also review The Ten Commandments

Bear Essentials Tiny school picture We discuss the Mass

Bear Essentials Tiny school picture Students learn prayers such as "The Memorare" and "The Morning Offering"

Bear Essentials Tiny school picture Each week, one of the parish priests visits classes for instruction

Bear Essentials Tiny school picture Students attend regular scheduled Masses for the school

Bear Essentials Tiny school picture The fifth grade attends morning mass once each month as a class

Bear Essentials Tiny school picture We participate in Jr. Saints, where students learn about lives of the saints

Bear Essentials Tiny school picture Students view videos that greatly enhance their understanding of our faith

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