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Literature

 

Linda Sue Park, A Single Shard

Fred Gipson, Old Yeller
C.S. Lewis, Voyage of the Dawn Treader

Theodore Taylor, The Cay

Scott O’Dell, Island of the Blue Dolphins

J.R.R. Tolkein, The Hobbit

Mildred Taylor, Roll of Thunder, Hear my Cry

Corrie ten Boom, The Hiding Place

Charles Dickens, A Christmas Carol

Poetry Through the Seasons

 

 

English

 

Sentence construction 

Punctuation

Paragraph construction

Capitalization

Reference

Parts of speech

Nouns

  • plural 
  • possessive      
  • of direct address          
  • appositives     
  • common and proper   

Verbs

  • helping verbs 
  • verb phrase    
  • tense 
  • irregular verbs               

Pronouns                           

  • nominative case
  • objective case
  • possessive case
  • demonstrative
  • indefinite
  • interrogative              

Adjectives & Adverbs

  • predicate adjectives
  • appositive adjectives
  • modifiers

Direct objects

Letter writing

Story writing

Writing a report

Poetry writing  

Book reports

Sentence diagramming

Outlining

Proper speech

 

Texts:     

ABeka Language B

Abeka Spelling, Vocabulary and Poetry 5

 

 

Mathematics 

 

Addition and subtracting whole numbers            

Squares and squares roots

Multiplying and dividing whole numbers                              

Data collecting and survey, graphs, charts

Fractions             

Common denominators

Lines, segments, rays, linear measure   

Adding and subtracting fractions

Perimeter          

Improper fractions

Place value through trillions       

Classifying quadrilaterals and triangles

Negative numbers         

Multiplying and dividing mixed numbers

Exponents                         

Parallelograms                 

Common factors             

Fractions as percents as decimals

Ratio     

Area of triangle

Adding and subtracting fractions              

Capacity

Adding and subtracting mixed numbers               

Volume of prism, cylinder

Adding and subtracting decimals              

Area of circle

Perimeter of complex shape     

Algebraic addition of integers

Mass and weight             

Algebraic addition           

Scale drawings 

Platonic solids

Roman numerals             

Prime numbers, prime factorization, division by primes

 

Text:     

Saxon Math 5/6

 

 

Science 

 

Text:       

Houghton Mifflin Science 5

 

 

History & Geography 

     

The fifth grade history program begins with the study of the first civilization, Mesopotamia, and continues through the ancient civilizations of Egypt, Greece, and Rome, then into the Middle Ages up to the Reformation.

 

Text:     

ABeka New World History and Geography

 

 

Bible  

  

Bible as a subject is taught daily. Scripture is memorized each week. Students learn to love the Word of God and to use it as their guidebook for life.

 

 

Latin                                                                

Rosetta Stone language software with teacher guidance