Fifth grade is such a pivotal year for students, on the verge of middle and high school yet still so young. The methods they have learned across all subjects at Highlands Christian comes together this year to help students foster a deep understanding of the material, thinking critically about those subjects and then articulating their thoughts. Fifth Grade students maintain and execute responsibility skills, demonstrating and practicing accountability, organization, and respect.
The students are introduced to five paragraph creative composition, character development, poetry and prose. Their years of gained writing skills are displayed and presented in recurrent essays and reports. Rigorous poetry memorization and recitation coupled with rich literature such as Johnny Tremain, Wind in the Willows, Tom Sawyer and Five Little Peppers, will bring the world alive.
Social studies will dive deep into the European Colonies in the Americas, the Founding Fathers, American Revolution, Westward Expansion, the Civil War, Reconstruction, World War I & II and the Cold War. Exploring the roots of our country will encourage our students to discover their familial roots with a family tree project.
Science focuses on Earth, and how only an all knowing and all powerful God could have created our world with such purpose and distinction. They will also take part in an Invention Convention, where they will create and display their own invention.
Saxon Math 7/6 will introduce functions and coordinate graphing, integers, exponential expressions and prime factorization. They will learn about order of operations, decimal place value, and how to find the percent of a number.
Art & Music will continue to expand the worldview of our students. Through intentional study, our students will discover numerous American artists and their contributions to the world. Music will introduce them to various composers and how their craft paved the way for later musicians.
Students continue their study of French this year adding studies of Greek & Latin roots.
“It’s {unorganized teaching} tendency is to permit the children to drift along and to gather the tools of knowledge as they felt the need for them. Few children are sufficiently developed to use this freedom wisely.” - Mae Carden
