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In Grade Five, students will. . .
RELIGION:· Understand the Church as a sign of Christ’s presence among us · Know the Laws/Precepts of the Church · Study the seven Sacraments, their scriptural basis, and meaning · Know that all life is Sacramental · Become involved in the Liturgy · Deepen knowledge of the Liturgical Year · Experience prayers of praise, thanksgiving, petition and sorrow, · Know and understand the Mysteries of the Rosary and the Stations of the Cross · Understand conscience, sins of omission and commission, personal sin and social sin and basic Social Justice issues Text: We Worship Christ Our Life: (Loyola Press)
LANGUAGE ARTS· Develop abilities to infer, analyze, critique, summarize, and compare/contrast reading passages · Use the five-stage writing process to develop writing in varied forms · Develop the skill needed to revise an initial draft · Recognize and recall main idea, sequence, cause and effect · Predict outcome · Distinguish fact and opinion · Use appropriate listening/responding behavior · Recall and identify important details for note taking
· Follow oral directions · Use dictionary and thesaurus skills Text: Expeditions (Houghton, Mifflin) MATH· Understand rounding and estimating whole numbers and decimals· Identify place value of large numbers and decimals · Change improper fractions to mixed numbers · Thorough study of fractions and decimals · Apply problem solving strategies · Find perimeter, area, and volume · Add and subtract fractions and mixed numbers · Introduce ratio, percent, and probability · Become fluent with multiplication and division up to four digits Text: (Silver Burdett Ginn)
SCIENCE· Understand cells and viruses: structure, processes and their reproduction · Learn about plants and their processes · Study and understand animals and their behavior · Study the human body and its systems · Study ecology and ecosystems · Learn the principles of energy resources Text: (Scott Foresman)
SOCIAL STUDIES:· Become familiar with general geographic terms · Study about the early explorers to the New World · Discuss the colonial development · Study and discuss the revolutionary war and its effects · Learn about the American expansion to the Mississippi · Learn about and discuss the reasons for the civil war · Study about slavery and its effects on our nation · Discuss the westward growth in our history Text: (Silver Burdette Ginn)
ART· Finer discrimination of line, shape and texture · Monochromatic color scheme introduced along with complementary colors · Terms of transparent, translucent, opaque are differentiated · Three dimensional forms such as cube, cylinder, sphere are studied and drawn · Contour drawing is introduced, watercolor technique expanded · Reversed printed images, coil and slab clay work, stitchery design
MUSIC· Listen to music of various cultures · Practice appropriate behavior during live performances · Read more complicated music · Create simple compositions · Strengthen rhythm skills · Learn folk dances of various cultures
PHYSICAL EDUCATION· Motor skill development · Learn simple games, relays, singing, stunts, tumbling, and apparatus work · Reinforcement of movement · Body mechanics in the areas of fitness, individual, dual and team sports is continued
TECHNOLOGY BENCHMARKS· Maintain keyboarding skills · 20 words at 90% accuracy · Integrate typing throughout the curriculum to reinforce the typing skills learned · Set Margins and Tabs · Create Folders and Classify own documents · Choose Font and Size · Access Template when necessary · Use simple programs combining Text and Graphics · Individual project based on Research Topics from science, social studies or school theme · Learn strategies for Online Searching which aid in the management and movement of data · Use Online Resources that are appropriate for the learner and the topic · Produce a product using Online Sources combined with other sources
St. Anthony School Curriculum Guide Developed, 2003 |