5th Grade
5th Grade
5th Grade
5th Grade
WELCOME TO 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
