5th Grade Curriculum
Math :
- Place value system, operations with multi-digit numbers
- Decimal operations: addition, subtraction, multiplication, division
- Fraction operations: addition, subtraction, multiplication, division
- Algebra patterns and graphing (x,y coordinates)
- Converting units of measure (customary to metric)
- Geometry and volume
Science:
Earth and Sun
Living Matter
Mixtures and Solutions
Social Studies:
- Explorers and expansion into America
- Life in Colonial America
- Revolutionary War and the New Nation
- Westward expansion and Slavery
Reading:
Reading strategies learned and used with a selection of novels: Maniac Magee, Fish in a Tree , Number the Stars, Wonder and Hatchet, as well as short stories and poems from Reading Street
Writing and Grammar
Six traits of writing