Students will learn about fiction and non-fiction text. The course will refine skills in identifying story elements-character, setting, and plot. The students will also create inferences to combine what they know with information from the text. Students will learn about types of text structure, which is how the author organizes text. This knowledge of text structure will improve reading comprehension skills. Students will continue to learn how to identify important ideas in non-fiction text through main idea and details. Students will read dramas and plays to increase knowledge of dialogue and story elements.
Students will refine their questioning skills which helps to make inferences, interpret a variety of texts, and promote classroom discussions. Students will also learn how to capture important ideas from the text in a few sentence through summarizing and paraphrasing. This understanding improves comprehension and understanding of text. Throughout the school year, students will be learning about three different types of writing. The first, narrative writing, describes an event or tells the story. The second type of writing is opinion, which is about a person’s belief, view, or judgement about a subject. The final writing type, expository, writes information or explanations about a topic. 

Throughout the year, we will be learning an abundance of topics. We will be reviewing multiplication and division basic skills. We will be using order of operations to complete equations successfully, using PEMDAS. We will be using decimals to understand place values, compare decimals, and gain a better grasp of decimals, in general. After our students master basic decimal skills, we will move on to adding, subtracting, multiplying, and dividing decimals. After decimals are mastered, the students will participate in a lengthy unit on fractions, like mixed numbers and improper fractions. After fractions are mastered, students will move on to measurement and conversion. These skills are essential to understanding converting different measurements. Finally, we will be working on coordinates, graphs, and geometry. We will be learning so many new concepts in 5th grade and encourage students to try their best! 

Fifth grade science is an introduction to the topics that will be covered throughout your child’s science courses at AACMS as well as an emphasis on the human body, the solar system and rocks and minerals We will be using many learning activities to interact with these topics. These will include hands-on experiments, demonstrations, projects, lesson reviews, and tests. Inquiry science is also used in our curriculum to promote exploration, investigation, and questioning in the Science classroom.  

In Social Studies, we will focus on United States history. The topics that will be covered throughout this year include Early American Cultures, Native Americans, Explorers, Life in the Thirteen Colonies, and the American Revolution. We will use a variety of interactive activities to learn about these topics including interactive notebooks, projects, lesson reviews, quizzes, and tests. For our Social Studies class, we will be using the Scott Foreman Social Studies text, Building a Nation, as well as the accompanying workbook for additional guided practice and supplemental skill building.