Curriculum:
READING- 5th Grade will be experiencing a variety of genres through the Into Reading curriculum, literature discussions, and creating critical thinkers and habitual, passionate readers.
WRITING- Using authors as mentors, we will explore the genres of writing personal narrative, expository, informational, imaginative narrative, and persuasive.
MATH- Units will include problem solving, number sense, operations with decimals and fractions, geometry, statistics, deciphering word problems, and learning to explain mathematical thinking.
SCIENCE-We will be exploring scientific concepts and life sciences using inferences, experimental procedures, and data interpretation.
SOCIAL STUDIES- Colonial exploration, roots of the New World, the American Revolution, Constitution, and Young Ameritowne are among the exciting topics we will delve into.