Fifth Grade

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By now your students will have a fully integrated complete curriculum containing all our subjects. Fifth Graders will learn the connections between American history, literature, and geography by reading classic historical novels such as Sing Down the Moon and The Sign of the Beaver.

Essential writing skills will continue to be developed, including paragraphing, outlining, and summarizing. Your students will write original reports, stories, and essays using the lessons about sentence types in our grammar unit.

Fifth Grade Calvert Math emphasizes problem-solving steps. Math covers multiplication up to three digits, geometry, multiplying and dividing fractions, and introduces integers.

Technology instruction will include research skills and basic HTML, while in science your students will study plants, weather, climates, and ecosystems.
The geography unit will focus on regions of the United States.

But most exciting and unique to Calvert, is our inclusion of art history in the Fifth Grade curriculum. Your students’ classical education will include picture study and A Child’s History of Art: Painting, another text written by Virgil Hillyer, Calvert School’s first Head Master.

• Scope and Sequence PDF
• Sample Lesson PDF
• Course Outline PDF