Grade 5
Topics covered in grade 5 include:
- Language Arts
- Reading and Literature
- Oral reading.
- Reading comprehension: prediction, summary, inference.
- Speed reading.
- Vocabulary building.
- Penmanship
- Review of cursive writing formation through skill practice and original composition.
- Spelling
- Weekly word lists on various categories and vocabulary study.
- Writing Process and Grammar
- Word usage: Using the best quality words; using synonyms, antonyms, and homonyms; using the dictionary and thesaurus; making subjects and verbs agree; using troublesome words correctly; using modifiers well.
- Grammar: Mastering subjects and predicates, simple and compound; recognizing and using all eight parts of speech; recognizing complements.
- Composition: Recognizing and writing good sentences; recognizing and correcting sentence fragments; recognizing and writing declarative, interrogative, exclamatory, and imperative sentences; learning and using the writing process; developing good paragraphs and writing with details; writing research reports and book reports; capitalization rules; punctuation rules; creative writing.
- Mathematics
- Number sense.
- Recognize the place value of numbers through billions.
- Know addition, subtraction, multiplication, and division facts.
- Know how to carry in addition and borrow in subtraction.
- Know how to solve multiplication problems with up to four digits in the multiplier.
- Know how to solve division problems with up to three digits in the divisor.
- Know how to check addition, multiplication, and division problems through estimation.
- Solve story problems.
- Average numbers.
- Know Roman numerals.
- Know how to round off whole numbers, decimals, and money.
- Know fraction terminology and how to solve problems containing fractions.
- Add and subtract fractions with a common denominator or having to find a common denominator, multiply and divide fraction.
- Recognize proper and improper fractions.
- Change mixed numbers to improper fractions and change improper fractions to mixed or whole numbers.
- Subtract fractions involving borrowing.
- Write a remainder as a fraction.
- Write a fraction as a decimal.
- Work division problems involving fractions.
- Factor whole numbers to find the greatest common factor.
- Find the least common multiple shared by two or more numbers.
- Write decimals as fractions.
- Add, subtract, multiply, and divide decimals.
- Compare decimals.
- Rename decimals.
- Recognize terminating and repeating decimals.
- See common fractions and decimal equivalents.
- Round off decimals.
- Read a thermometer.
- Solve equations containing an unknown number.
- Read and draw pictographs, bar graphs, and line graphs.
- Read scale drawings.
- Recognize and draw geometric shapes and figures.
- Find the perimeter of a polygon. Find the perimeter and area of a rectangle and a square.
- Recognize and use exponents.
- Recognize square roots and square numbers.
- Science
- Energy
- Force and motion.
- Electricity and magnetism.
- Engines: steam, internal combustion, jet propulsion, rocket engines.
- Light.
- Matter
- Water, Air, Weather.
- Earth and Space
- Geology: Treasures of the Earth.
- Oceanography: The Living Sea.
- Astronomy: The Nine Planets, Stars, Moon, Sun.
- History
- US History from the 1600's to Present
- Colonial Heritage.
- American Revolution.
- Civil War.
- Industrial Age.
- World War I and World War II.
- Depression Era.
- Freedom and Responsibility from a Biblical worldview.
- American Historical Documents for Study and/or Memorization
- Declaration of Independence.
- American's Creed.
- Preamble to the Constitution.
- Abraham Lincoln's Gettysburg Address.
- Bible
- Memory Verses
- Biblical doctrine
- God's Word is faithful and true from generation to generation.
- God created all things.
- Man is sinful and separated from God.
- God's plan of salvation through Jesus Christ alone.
- Bible Study to acknowledge and proclaim His mighty works
- Selections from the Old Testament .
- Selections from the New Testament.