Colorado Calvert Academy Fifth Grade Virtual School
Course Materials
What Your Child Will Learn in Fifth Grade
Reading
Reading children’s classics and Newbery Award winners; developing critical thinking and comprehension skills
Spelling & Vocabulary
Reinforcing correct spelling through daily exercises and spelling strategies; reviewing commonly misspelled words; introducing cross-curricular words; integrating spelling with phonics, vocabulary studies, reading, and writing
Composition
Writing reports and original stories; paragraphing; outlining subjects from History, Reading, Geography, and Science lessons
Grammar
Identifying the eight parts of speech; types of sentences; subject; predicate; correct usage
Mathematics
Featuring Calvert Math. Multiplying up to three digits; geometry points, lines, and rays; measuring angles; adding mixed numerals and decimals; multiplying and dividing decimals; adding, subtracting, dividing and multiplying fractions; perimeter, area, volume; statistics, graphing, and probability; ratios and percents
Science
Studying plants, weather, climate, energy, matter, Earth and its resources, ecosystems, and the human body
Technology
Application lessons, activities, and online interactive learning tool integrated with curriculum: practicing keyboarding and touch typing; intermediate word processing and desktop publishing; database and Internet research skills; graphs, tables, and formulas in spreadsheets; creating databases; basic HTML; using presentation software. Internet activities integrated with Science text
Poetry
Memorizing; reading; literary devices; symbolism
History
Surveying American history from ancient civilizations through September 11, 2001; emphasizing early American Indian cultures, colonization, the Revolution, westward expansion, the Civil War and its aftermath, industrialization, and the United States in the 20th century
Geography
Exploring the five themes of geography; studying the United States by region, with focus on landforms, waterways, natural resources, parks, monuments, cities, state capitals, industry, agriculture, and climate; state reports; extending map and globe skills; Canada; Latin America
Art History
Using A Child’s History of Art: Painting, by Hillyer and Huey, cover paintings from Ancient Egypt through the modern art movement
Art
Learning different art techniques including contour, naturalism, murals, and linear perspective; applying techniques discussed in Art History
