5th Grade Curriculum

Science

*Microworlds
*Ecosystems
*Floating and Sinking
*Magnets and Motors
*Nutrition

Social Studies

*Explorers
*Colonial America -Sail America Simulation
*Revolutionary War
*Oregon Trail -Simulation
*Civil War-Underground Railroad Simulation
*Atlas of Our Country’s History

English

*The text is used to study grammar and mechanics.
*Writing Projects:

+Interview Paper
+All About Me Paper
+Animal Encounter Paper
+Diary of a Worm -Book
+Up North at the Cabin –Book
+Research Paper –Artist Biography

Reading

Philosophy: To introduce students to pleasure reading while teaching and reinforcing reading comprehension, vocabulary, writing and critical thinking skills.

Houghton Mifflin Anthology

Novel Studies
+The Terrible Wave
+Number the Stars
+The Sign of the Beaver
+Biographies
+Where the Red Fern Grows
+Across the Wide and Lonesome Prairie
+Caddie Woodlawn
+Stealing Home: The story of Jackie Robinson
+The True Confessions of Charlotte Doyle
+A Wrinkle in Time
+The Sixty-Eight Rooms
+Bridge to Terabithia
+My Side of the Mountain
+From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler
+Island of the Blue Dolphins
+Abel’s Island

Spelling

*Houghton Mifflin-All word lists can be found at spellingcity.com

Math

*Saxon Math Program- An Incremental Development

This program presents a series of daily lessons, each followed by a set of problems. Rather than providing practice in only the new topic, the problem sets review everything that has been taught previously. The program has 140 lessons and a test is given after every five lessons.