5th Grade
Fifth grade students prepare for middle school with great focus on developing organizational and study skills. They switch classrooms for Math, Language Arts, Social Studies and Science.
- Religion
- Christ Our Life Program
- Four Pillars of the Church
- Apostle's Creed
- Nicene Creed
- Sacraments
- Commandments
- Prayer
- Mysteries of the Rosary
- Parts of the Mass
- Participate in the planning and preparation of school liturgies
- Language Arts
- Vocabulary/Word Study using Vocabulary in Action
- Literature
- Lucy Calkins Unit of Study
- Book Clubs
- Greek/Latin Roots and Affixes
- Literary Devices
- Writing
* Journals
* Creative Writing
* Informal and formal types of writing - Grammar
- Houghton Mifflin English
- Parts of Speech
- Sentence Structure, complexity, and variation
- Diagramming
- Math
- Math in Focus
- Order of Operations
- Place Value
- Patterns and Operations
- Geometry
- Algebra
- Fractions
- Math in Focus
- Science
- NGSS based curriculum
- Macmillan/McGraw Science
- The Scientific Method
- Earth and the Universe
- Matter
- Physical and Chemical Changes
- Life Sciences
- Social Studies
- Social Studies Alive: America's Past
- Native Americans
- Their Land and Culture
- The New World
- Exploration
- Early Settlers
- Colonial
- Independence
- Conflicts with England
- Revolution
- Constitution
- Bill of Rights
- The West
- Manifest Destiny and Settling
- Civil War
- Native Americans
- Social Studies Alive: America's Past