Grade 5 - Sr. Paula Paula Mayer, DC
The Fifth Grade year at Saint Joseph School is a time for each student to become more self-sufficient in regard to completing his/her own homework and classwork and organizing how to go about long-term assignments. Feeling good about oneself is important in the Fifth Grade, enabling the students to reach out to the needs of others.
Language Arts
In Language Arts, the students work hard on their grammar usage and mechanics skills by means of an oral sentence game. Also, the Fifth Graders concentrate on developing realistic and creative ideas in their weekly paragraphs. Their reading skills are developed in their daily reading lessons as well as in their homework book report assignments.
Mathematics
In Math, the Fifth Graders work on improving their ability in the Math skills of fractions, decimals, algebra, geometry, measurement, probability, and the four basic operations of whole numbers. A daily Math game helps them with these skills.
Religion
Religion classes in the Fifth Grade stress the three basic parts of: Doctrine, Scripture, and the Liturgical Seasons. Some of the doctrine that the Fifth Grade conentrates on is: recognizing the Paschal Mystery in their lives - particularly when they worship Christ in the Eucharist, the mystery of the Trinity, and making good moral decisions using the Commandments.
Social Studies
In Social Studies, the Fifth Grade studies our early American History. They look at some Native American tribes and all that they have contributed to our country. The thirteen colonies are explored as well as how and why these colonies broke away from Great Britain.
Science
The Science concepts stressed in the Fifth Grade range from the living things in Life Science to the energy resources that we are responsible for under Earth Science, and how the properties of matter are changed when different ones are combined chemically or physically as developed in Physical Science. For each segment of Science the students participate in a couple of hands-on activities.
Wish List
Elementary Astronomy Learning Pack ($99.95)
Magnetic Field Demonstrator ($18.75)
Magnetic Bars ($6.40)
Teaching Physics with Toys ($21.95)
Sea Life Slide ($10.40)