5th Grade Curriculum

Religion – Faith First RCL (Resources for Christian Living), Benziger Family Life

• Our Creed: examining scripture and the life of Jesus to understand what we, as Catholics believe about God and the church.
• Liturgy and Sacraments: worshiping and celebrating the sacraments during different seasons of the year.
• Christian Morality: living and making decisions based on scripture, especially the beatitudes and the commandments.
• Prayer: examining the prayer of Jesus and the traditional prayers of the Church to aid us in expressing our faith in a variety of ways.
• Benziger Family Life
• Complement the primary learning that happens in the family in the area of human sexuality.
• STEWARDSHIP St. Irenaeus Parish School has a formal stewardship program taught in grades TK-8. Every month at each grade level a different theme is taught about our role as disciples. 5th grade will be setting aside 10% of their classroom budget to fund the 5th grade stewardship project.

Reading – Harcourt School Publishers

Includes a student anthology with quality literature and workbooks for reinforcing reading, writing, and phonics skills. Vocabulary, comprehension, and critical thinking skills are developed through direct instruction, guided readings, discussions and writing. Reading themes covered in the Harcourt Brace textbook include:

• Finding A Way
• Common Goals
• Go With The Flow
• Dare To Be Great
• Making A Difference
• Feats Of Daring
• Novel Studies

Language Arts

• Daily Language Review-provides daily practice in hearing and writing sentences
• Spelling – SRA and Handwriting-reinforces communication skills
• Figurative Language - Daily work
• Writing: essays, paragraphs, book reports, and research reports
• Oral Presentations
• Handwriting - practice and reinforcement

Social Studies – United States History Early Years, Houghton Mifflin

• United States History, past and present–its people, places and events.
• Exploring and settling of America
• Life in the English colonies
• The struggle for independence
• The life of the growing nation
• The nation’s period of conflict and finding America’s future place in the world
• We look to see how the dreams of people guided their decisions and how we continue to share those dreams with others
• 50 States and Capitals

Mathematics – McGraw Hill My Math CCSS Edition

• Students have access to ebook with all lessons.
• Develops mathematical concepts along with basic computational and problem solving skills.
• Math functions focus on multiplication and division of larger numbers, decimals, fractions and mixed numbers.
• Accelerated Math is incorporated into the basic math program.

Science – McGraw-Hill Inspire Science

• Next Generation Science Standards
• Students have access to Inspire Science tech book with all lessons, as well as consumable textbook. They may read text, view videos, and respond to questions.
• Life Science will include the study of matter and energy in ecosystems..
• Earth Science will include the Earth's atmosphere, hydrosphere, geosphere, and biosphere.
• Space Science will include the study of stars and the solar system.
• Physical Science will include the study of matter.

Other Subjects

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