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Elementary Academics Fifth Grade
Bible:
- Read about past and present-day followers of Christ
- Teach students about the unchanging and boundless love of God
- Help students to obtain the tools they will need to make choices in their personal lives
- Lead students to an understanding of the need and way of salvation
- Memorize verses from both Testaments weekly
- Daily read the Word
- Excite students interest in the Word
- Show that Gods prophecies have been fulfilled
- Strengthen students faith and witness as ambassadors for Christ
- Discuss the importance of discipleship in providing guidance as students of Gods Word
Text: Biblical Choices for a New Generation magazine and student activity packet
NIV Student Bible
Math (Level I):
Through daily exercises, drills, and weekly tests, students review all addition, subtraction, multiplication, and division facts and their terminology. The following is studied in-depth:
- Place value to trillions
- Multiplication through three-digit by three-digit numbers
- Missing numbers in series
- Symbols for less than, more than, equal to, not equal to
- Ordering numbers to four digits
- Commutative and associative properties
- Fractions - equivalent, improper, comparison of, addition and subtraction of unlike denominators, graphic representations, simplification of cross multiplication, mixed numbers, conversion to decimals
- Decimals - conversion to fractions, recognizing/organizing decimals for multiplication, division, addition, and subtraction, conversion from decimals to fractions
- Money - change equivalents, change problems, multiplication, division, percent
- Percent - change to decimal, money, pie graphs
- Measurement - English and metric, conversions, equivalents
- Geometry - recognizing three-dimensional figures, review of plane geometry, types of triangles and polygons, terminology
Text: Ansmar Publishers - Excel Math 5
Math (Level II):
Through daily exercises, students will:
- Add, subtract, multiply and divide numbers, fractions, mixed numbers and decimal numbers
- Solve for x by using algebraic thinking
- Know the order of operations
- Identify the parts of a fraction
- Use a ruler to measure a line segment
- Find the area, perimeter and volume of an object
- Know the place value through the trillions
- Round whole numbers and decimals
- Identify fractions and mixed numbers on a number line
- Determine the average given the test scores and the number of people that have taken the test
- Reduce fractions and change improper fractions to mixed numbers
- Determine the LCM and GCF
- Define the term reciprocal
- Write in expanded notation
- Write percents and decimal numbers as fractions
- Subtract fractions and mixed numbers from whole numbers
- Mentally divide and multiply decimal numbers by 10 and 100
- Identify prime numbers
- Use division by primes and factor trees to determine the prime factorization of a number
- Determine rectangular coordinates
- Classify quadrilaterals
- Use a compass (Pi) and a protractor
- Identify acute, obtuse and straight angles
- Determine mean, median, mode and range
- Add, subtract, multiply and divide integers
- Find square roots
Text: Saxon Publishers - Math 7/6, Math 8/7
Language Arts:
Through daily exercises and unit tests, students gain an appreciation for the English language as a way of expressing themselves. Students will learn to:
- Use the eight parts of speech correctly (verbs, nouns, pronouns, adjectives, adverbs, prepositions, conjunctions, and interjections)
- Recognize/write sentences and use sentence parts correctly
- Use punctuation correctly
- Use quotations and capitals correctly
- Apply the writing process in completing book reports, letters, paragraphs, and outlines
- Use the encyclopedia, dictionary, thesaurus and other resources for research writing
- Appreciate Gods gift of language through the use of synonyms, antonyms, and homonyms
- Recognize and use complements correctly
- Diagram sentences completely
Text: ABeka Book - Gods Gift of Language B worktext
Writing:
- Students will be able to write well-written paragraphs using the one-chunk and two-chunk paragraph structure.
- Students will identify and define the following terms, which are used to describe a 5+ sentence paragraph: topic sentence, concrete details,commentary sentences, and concluding sentence.
- Students will write the five-part essay. The five-part essay will be in the form of at least one of the following: narrative, literature response, research paper, and persuasive essay.
Refer to: Jane Schaffer Writing Program
Reading:
- Analyze the structure of all reading material based on its setting in time, location, culture, and history
- Recognize stereotypes, foreshadowing, conflict, fables, and parables
- Distinguish between synonyms, homonyms, antonyms, various forms of punctuation, and text-related vocabulary
- Compare/contrast styles of fiction and poetry
- Explore writing forms such as rebuses, palindromes, allegories, ballads, clichs, euphemisms, oxymorons, and idioms
- Study specific vocabulary through base words and derivative history
- Use library resources effectively
- Teach students skills for school success: reading/comprehension, long-term retention strategies, mental outlining/organization of material
- Teach lessons in how to take tests and interpret graphics
- Apply reading strategies, comprehension techniques, and group discussion skills in novel-based literature units
Text: Bob Jones University Press - Reading for Christian Schools 5 basal reader and worktext
ABeka Book - Read and Think comprehension quizzes
Curriculum Associates - Skills for School Success workbooks
Literature Units: The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe, Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH, Number the Stars, A Wrinkle in Time, Johnny Tremain
Spelling:
Weekly spelling lists, related activities, and vocabulary with definitions are assigned; the first five lessons have thirty words categorized by subject, and ensuing lessons have thirty-five; tests are given weekly. Objectives include the following:
- Guide students toward better spelling and richer vocabulary
- Memorize spelling words by syllable
- Complete activities in workbook related to each weeks list
- Explore the dictionary and learn ways it can serve them as they write and learn about the English language
- Learn the spellings and usage of various spelling and vocabulary words in spoken and written language
- Teach spelling rules that will enable students to spell words beyond the weekly lists
Text: ABeka Book - Spelling Vocabulary and Poetry 5 worktext
McGraw-Hill - Spectrum Spelling, Grade 5
Science:
The students will apply the scientific methods of observing, experimenting, making inferences, interpreting data, formulating hypotheses, making predictions, measuring, and communicating results in the following content area units:
- The Study of Fossils
- Oceans and Oceanography
- Wind
- Weather and Meteorology
- Flight
- Molecules and Atoms
- The Sun and Astronomy
- Heat
- The Nervous System
- Plants and Plant Reproduction
- Animal Reproduction
- Tracking Animals
Text: Bob Jones University Press - Science 5 for Christian Schools text and worktext
Social Studies:
- The students will identify who the first Americans were and the land that they found.
- The students will identify different characteristics of the Native American Indians.
- The students will describe the colonial heritage and the colonization of America.
- The students will identify people and places involved in the French and Indian War.
- The students will explain the causes of the American Revolution.
- The students will understand the course and the consequences of the American Revolution.
- The students will describe the people and events associated with the development of the US constitution and analyze the Constitutions significance as the foundation of the American Republic.
- Students will know the location of the current 50 states and the names of their capitals.
- The students will know the development of and the people involved with the early automobile and airplane. (Chapter 2/Bob Jones)
- The students will explain the causes of WWI and its consequences. (Chapter 3/Bob Jones)
- The students will list the lifestyle changes and the major events that occurred during the 1920s. (Chapter 6/Bob Jones)
- The students will identify the men who wielded powers as dictators during the WWII. (Chapter 9/Bob Jones)
- The students will describe WWII. This includes the war in Europe, the Holocaust, and the war in the Pacific. (Chapter 10/Bob Jones)
Text: ABeka Book History Series - New World History and Geography in Christian Perspective text
Bob Jones University Press
Heritage Studies 5 for Christian Schools:
For the Sake of Freedom
Struggles of a New Century text and worktext
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