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What to Expect in the 5th Grade
Chapel is on Tuesday
Our PE days are Monday and Thursday
Special classes are Music, Art, and Latin
Fine Arts appreciation includes music by Bach and Mozart, and art by Velazquez
Bible comes from Veritas Pres: The Gospels
Bible memory includes:
Acts 17:24-28
Job 37:5-13
Psalm 1
Ephesians 5
Ecclesiastes 3:1-14
History units include:
European Explorers
Colonial America
English Monarchs
America’s War for Independence
Science units include:
Navigation
Weather
Literature includes:
Carry on, Mr. Bowditch
The Witch of Blackbird Pond
I, Juan de Pareja
Johnny Tremain
My Side of the Mountain
Selected Shakespeare Plays and Sonnets
A Comedy of Errors performance
Teacher read-aloud books are:
The Phantom Tollbooth
The Princess and the Goblin
Prince Caspian
Poetry is read and
memorized from:
Joaquin Miller
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Anne Bradstreet
Shakespeare
The Preamble to the Declaration of Independence
Language Arts skills learned are:
Classify five sentence patterns using the eight parts of speech
Learn to apply the basic rules of grammar and spelling in writing
Learn Latin root words, prefixes and suffixes; apply them to English vocabulary
Write clear and concise essays with concrete details and commentary remarks
Rich poetry is read and composed
Research methods and MLA citation is introduced
Math skills studied from:
Math in Focus: The Singapore Approach 5A and 5B
Special events and projects:
Navigation Walk
Comedy of Errors performance
Colonial Project and Colonial Day
Rocket Day
The Solar System
Rocketry
The Secret Garden
Blood on the River
The Voyage of the Dawn Treader
We also make a three day, two night trip to Houston. There, we visit NASA,
Kemah Bay, The Elissa, Houston’s Museum of Fine Arts, The Natural History
Museum, and we take the Galveston Harbor Tour.
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