Fifth Grade
Concord Christian School endeavors to give a completely God-centered orientation of life to each student. We strive to help produce the mind of Christ in our students and establish a well-grounded biblical world view.
Academic concepts taught in the Fifth Grade include:
- Review and correct use of grammar (nouns, verbs, adjectives, adverbs, etc…)
- Identify the simple subject and predicate of a sentence
- Draft, revise, proofread, publish and illustrate
- Use of thesaurus in poetry writing
- Poetry writing; diamante and sense poems
- Diagram and label sentence patterns
- Subject-Verb agreement
- Pronouns; singular, plural, subject, object, and reflexive
- Practice listening skills
- Recognize and use prefixes and suffixes
- Write a research paper using revision and proofreading; include bibliography format for recording references
- Prepositions and prepositional phrases
- Write a persuasive business letter using proper form, including correct addressing of envelopes
- Expanded skills in addition, subtraction, multiplication, and division
- Solve story problems with multiple steps
- Addition and subtraction of fractions with or without a common denominator
- Proper and improper fractions
- Remainders as fractions
- Algebraic equations
- Decimals; addition, subtraction multiplication, division
- More decimals; terminating and repeating decimals, rounding decimals to the nearest tenth, hundredth, and cent
- Graphs; pictographs and bar graphs
- Conversion of Fahrenheit to Celsius scale
- Dividing fractions
- Geometry; shapes, angles, triangles, perimeter, area
- Square and square-root of numbers
- Balancing a bank account
