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:
- Correct use of grammar (nouns, verbs, adjectives, adverbs)
- Identify the simple subject and predicate of a sentence
- Draft, revise, proofread, publish, and illustrate
- Use of a thesaurus in poetry writing
- Poetry writing including diamante and sense poems
- Diagram and label sentence patterns
- Subject-verb agreement
- Pronouns including singular, plural, subject, object, and reflexive
- Practice and refine listening skills
- Recognize and use prefixes and suffixes
- Write a research paper using revision, proofreading, and including a bibliography format for references
- Prepositions and prepositional phrases
- Write a persuasive business letter using proper form and including correct addressing of an envelope
- 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, terminating and repeating decimals, rounding decimals to the nearest tenth, hundredth, and cent
- Graphs including 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
