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5th Fifth Grade

Spiritual Life 

  • Bible - Students learn about God’s plan for creation, redemption, and salvation through Jesus Christ. Students survey the Old Testament and learn about God’s grace and power through the lives of Adam and Eve, Cain and Abel, Noah, Abraham, Isaac and Rebekah, Jacob and Esau, Joseph, and Moses. 
  • Chapel - Students attend chapel weekly in a lively and powerful worship environment. They are exposed to Biblical principles and stories through weekly speakers. 
  • Scripture Memorization - Students are expected to memorize one verse a week that aligns with our Deep Roots Bible curriculum. 

Academic

  • Language Arts:
    • Phonics - Students learn the first grade rules of spelling and phonics through explicit, systematic, and multisensory instruction.
    • Phonemic Awareness - Students learn to successfully hear, identify, and manipulate individual sounds (phonemes) in spoken words. 
    • Reading Fluency - Students combine their phonics and phonemic awareness skills with print awareness to develop fluent reading. Students participate in guided and shared reading with phonics-based decodable books to read grade-level texts with accuracy and confidence. 
    • Reading Comprehension - Students learn to understand stories and informational text through read alouds and independent reading. Students understand key details, identify main ideas, and make simple inferences by predicting, asking and answering questions, making connections, and using pictures and context clues to understand and remember what is read. 
    • Language Usage - Students learn to use correct grammar, punctuation, capitalization, and spelling in speaking and writing, while expanding vocabulary and understanding the basic rules of English conventions.  
    • Writing - Students create their own personal narrative and expository piece while developing their writer’s voice through the Writer’s Workshop method. 
    • Listening and Speaking - Students participate in conversations by asking and answering questions and clearly expressing ideas with support and appropriate social skills. They also recite poems and a speech by memory. 
  • Mathematics - Students develop number sense by understanding place value, solving addition and subtraction problems within 20, measuring lengths, telling time, and identifying and working with shapes and their attributes. Students also collect, organize, and compare data on graphs and tables while exploring multiple strategies to problem solve.
  • Social Studies - Students learn about their role in families, schools, and communities by exploring citizenship, rules, national symbols, and important historical events. They understand beginning map skills and beginning economic concepts. 
  • Science - Students are introduced to God’s creation through hands-on, inquiry based learning across four key areas: life science, earth and space science, physical science, and the human body. Students explore topics such as plants and animals, the solar system, sound, light, and basic health and body systems all while developing observation, classification, and simple experimentation skills with a biblical worldview that emphasizes God as the Creator and sustainer of life. 
  • Handwriting - Through Spalding, students learn correct pencil grip, posture, and correct manuscript letter and number formations. 
  • Physical Education - Students develop basic motor skills such as running, jumping, throwing, catching, and balancing with greater control and coordination. Students also practice cooperation, following rules, and modeling Christ-like behavior during games and activities. 
  • Music - Students explore and enjoy music through listening, singing, moving, and playing instruments. They also learn to recognize basic musical elements like rhythm, melody, and dynamics, express themselves through movement and sound, and understand worship as a spiritual discipline.
  • Art - Students learn about the creative process, fine motor development, and self-expression through the exploration of various materials, tools, and techniques. Students use lines, shapes, colors, and textures to create their own artwork while developing an appreciation of God’s creativity and design. 
  • Spanish - Students are introduced to the Spanish language through basic vocabulary, simple phrases, songs, and interactive activities. Students learn to understand and use words related to greetings, numbers, colors, family, and everyday objects. 

Grade Activities

  • Field Trips
  • Grade Level ACSI Spelling Bee
  • Grade Level ACSI Speech Meet
  • Bi-monthly Gardening
  • Walk Through the American Revolution
  • Quarterly Cooking 

Curriculum

  • Language Arts:
    • Phonics, Reading Fluency, Reading Comprehension, Language Usage, Listening and Speaking: Benchmark Advance
    • Writing: Writer’s Workshop and IEW
    • Handwriting: Handwriting Without Tears
  • Mathematics: enVision Math
  • Bible: Deep Roots
  • Social Studies: Abeka
  • Science: Purposeful Design, ACSI

Formal Assessments

  • NWEA MAP Growth in Reading, Math, Language, and Science
  • Star Reading Assessment

Technology

  • 1-1 Lenovo Thinkpads
  • Software licensing for: XtraMath, IXL, Envision Math, Canva, Typing.com

Other Information:

  • Teacher/Student ratio: Approximately 20:1
  • School Day: Monday-Friday: 8:15-3:00pm
  • Morning Recess: 25 minutes
  • Lunch/Recess: 45 minutes
  • Classroom Structure: Core subjects taught by the classroom teacher with support from the  instructional aide
  • Enrichment classes taught by specialty teachers: Physical Education, Art, Music, and Spanish