This grade level brochure is designed to provide you with an overview of the challenging curriculum we offer our students. It identifies key curriculum concepts for 5th grade, but it is not meant to be all-inclusive.
Mission Statement
Epiphany Catholic School provides a student-focused, standards-driven, and secure educational environment, based upon the Gospel values, that promotes the spiritual, emotional, moral, intellectual, and physical development of all students.
Religion & Character Formation
- Identify and apply the seven sacraments.
- Recognize/understand the parts of the Mass.
- Explain the seasons of the church year.
- Discuss the lives of the saints.
- Use of Bible.
- Prepare for and participate in liturgical celebrations (weekly Masses, Adoration, Stations of the Cross, the Rosary, reconciliation, the Feast of Corpus Christi, and visits to the Blessed Sacrament).
- Foster the virtues of kindness, respect, optimism, generosity, honesty, prudence, patience, responsibility, and morality.
Language Arts – Language
- Use correct grammatical structure.
- Acquire and clarify vocabulary based on 5th Grade levels.
- Develop listening skills for gathering information, taking notes, and following directions.
- Use primary and secondary resources to gather information for research purposes and to clarify meaning.
- Recognize and apply the eight parts of speech (nouns, verbs, adverbs, adjectives, pronouns, interjections, conjunctions, and prepositions).
- Identify four types of sentences (declarative, interrogative, exclamatory, and imperative).
- Write various essays and a research paper which express ideas effectively.
- Write paragraphs including topic sentence, supporting details, sentence variety and concluding sentence.
- Apply the five components of the writing process (prewriting, drafting, revising, editing, and publishing).
- Use listening and speaking skills in a variety of settings.
Language Arts – Reading
- Apply reading skills.
- Comprehend reading material.
- Read with fluency and expression.
- Compare and contrast literary themes.
- Recognize story elements (character, plot, and setting).
- Identify point of view, theme and genre.
- Interpret and use a variety of literary elements (personification, alliteration, and hyperbole).
- Apply literary skills (cause and effect, fact and opinion, and sequencing).
Mathematics
- Apply skills in problem-solving.
- Read, write, compare, order, and round whole numbers up to one hundred billion.
- Read, write, compare, order, and round decimals up to ten thousandths.
- Recall basic facts of multiplication, division, addition, and subtraction in problem-solving operations.
- Multiply and divide multiple-digit numbers.
- Apply processes for conversion of metric, linear, and customary units within a measurement system.
- Multiply and divide decimals.
- Read, write, compare, and order fractions and mixed numbers.
- Add, subtract, and multiply fractions with like and unlike denominators, including mixed numbers and improper fractions.
- Identify, describe, and compare attributes of solid and plane geometric figures.
- Collect, organize, display, and interpret data.
- Use Order of Operations and Algebraic Thinking.
Science
- Identify observable patterns of Earth, moon, sun, and stars: systems in space.
- Reason abstractly the sun’s apparent brightness in comparison to other stars.
- Identify characteristics of the Earth’s changing surface (volcanoes, earthquakes, and mass movement).
- Understand the role of the ocean in Earth’s systems.
- Understand how energy moves through ecosystems.
- Identify and explain the Earth’s systems (geosphere, biosphere, hydrosphere, and atmosphere).
- Describe relationships among various organisms in their environments.
- Compare and assess features of organisms for their adaptive, competitive, and survival potential.
- Resource use, pollution, protecting the environment.
- Make inferences based on test results found through using our senses and analyzing data.
- Recognize the scientific method.
- Understand and utilize domain specific vocabulary.
- Utilize technology to collect and analyze research materials to answer questions of scientific importance.
Social Studies
- Describe how the European colonies developed politically and religiously.
- Evaluate major documents including the Declaration of Independence and the U.S. Constitution.
- Describe how slavery and indentured servitude influenced the early economy of the United States.
- Utilize technology to collect and analyze research materials to answer questions of historical importance.
- Analyze different points of view when identifying the major causes of the American Revolution and describe the consequences of the Revolution on the development of the U.S.
- Analyze different points of view when identifying major causes, events, and personalities related to the American Civil War.
- Use maps, graphs and charts to gather information about people, places, and environments as they relate to the development of the United States.
- Accurately quote text, determine two or more main ideas from text, and explain how it is supported.
- Identify relationships between two or more individuals, events, ideas, or historical events that contributed to economic change within the development of the U.S. through the 1800’s.
- Understand and utilize domain specific vocabulary.
Foreign Language – Spanish
- Learn basic vocabulary (months and seasons, clothing, telling time, food, numbers, adjectives) in Spanish.
- Respond to basic questions and commands.
- Communicate basic feelings, age, birthday and likes.
- Understand basic stories and songs.
- Holiday tradition in Latin American countries.
- Catholic prayers in Spanish.
Computer
- Use keyboarding skills and proper posture.
- Transfer files to different locations.
- Apply guidelines of the acceptable use policy for use of technology systems.
- Use word processor/graphic organizer to create and print a variety of writing types.
- Create slide presentations using text and graphics.
- Insert images/videos into presentations.
- Cite sources when using information or graphics.
- Identify and use multimedia to deliver information.
- Identify keywords and/or subjects for electronic searches and determine relevancy.
- Use e-mail and/or web pages to collect information and share ideas.
- Use electronic resources to gather information.
- Utilize Web 2.0 tools and Google Drive app.
- Practice using Chrome devices and software effectively (Google Classroom, Drive, Slides, Docs).
Fine Arts – Art
- Use of art elements and principles of design to create an illusion of depth.
- Identify and create one point perspective.
- Identify and create color schemes (complimentary, analogous, and monochromatic) exploring values, shades, and tints.
- Discuss and identify artistic themes in selected historical areas.
- Identify and use positive and negative, two-dimensional and three-dimensional shapes in a work of art.
Fine Arts – Choir
- Demonstrate good vocal technique.
- Demonstrate proper performance behavior.
- Read traditional music notation.
Fine Arts – Music
- Play classroom instruments, sing, and dance with proper technique.
- Demonstrate, identify, and describe elements of music using traditional music vocabulary (tempo, dynamics, pitch, form).
- Read, notate, and perform complex rhythmic and melodic patterns.
- Create short melodies, rhythms, and movements within guidelines.
Fine Arts – Band
- Play traditional band instruments using proper technique.
- Demonstrate and describe the elements of music using (tempo, pitch, dynamics, form and timbre).
- Demonstrate proper performance behavior.
- Read traditional music notation.
- Play major and minor scales and triads.
Physical Education & Health
- Recognize the factors included in nutrition and exercise which promote physical fitness.
- Identify and use appropriate behavior in relation to public health and safety issues.
- Demonstrate coordinated movements with other participants in activities.
Resource
Epiphany School offers assistance with a variety of skills and in all academic areas for students with a demonstrated need. The Epiphany Resource Program collaborates with Unit 5 to meet the needs of these students. Contact the Epiphany Resource teacher regarding any educational concerns in the following areas: academic evaluations, speech and language development, motor skills, and behavioral, health, vision, hearing, and social/emotional concerns.