Elementary School
Fifth Grade
Language Arts
- Enhance reading comprehension strategies by discussion of themes and critical thinking skills
- Exposure to different authors and genres
- Increase writing skills by studying narrative, expository and descriptive writing
- Further development of paragraph and five-paragraph essay
- Daily grammar practice
- Oral speaking
- Spelling
- Vocabulary
- Research skills
Math
- Review of basic facts and operations
- Fraction concepts, mixed numbers, decimals and percents
- Estimation
- Number theory, sets and systems
- Measurement units and conversion
- Geometry
- Algebra
- Statistics
- Probability
- Problem solving strategies
- Mathematical reasoning
- Thinking and writing about math
Social Studies
- American History up to the Civil War
- Culture
- Immigration
- Geography
- Exploration and settling
- Colonial life
- Independence
- American Revolution
- Origins and framework of the Constitution
- Life in a new and growing nation
- Settling west
- Culture and economy of Northern and Southern States
Science
- Scientific method
- Water
- Life Cycles
- Matter
- Technology
- Astronomy
- Human Body
- Air and weather
Spanish
- Emphasis on speaking and listening
- Reading and writing new vocabulary
- Additional verbs
- Simple grammar concepts
- Cultural activities
- Exposure to geography and literature
Elementary Enrichment Curriculum
