Grade 5

Acts gives us the first years of the church that Christ established and the history of the early preachers of the Gospel. Each week begins with vocabulary and includes a Bible story, reinforcement activities, and a Bible verse appropriate to the text for memorization.

Sentence structure, kinds of sentences, punctuation and capitalization rules, recognizing and diagraming all eight parts of speech, contractions, antonyms, homonyms, using troublesome words correctly, dictionary skills, letter writing – friendly, business, thank-you notes, writing a research paper, and writing compositions are all covered throughout the course of the year. Spelling 5 contains 36 weeks of spelling lists with activities and glossary.

The text written in the early years of the 20th Century deals with early American heroes from a vantage point much nearer in time than we live today. This strictly traditionalist history text is a treasure of information for our young history students and deserves to be studied with care and respect. Each week begins with vocabulary and many end with a report. Bible memorization is also included each week.

Vocabulary words and definitions; comprehension activities; McGuffey’s Fifth Eclectic Reader is used for reading comprehension and oral reading. Book reports are required every six weeks. Bible memorization is assigned throughout the year with Bible verses pertaining to the moral or practical lesson taught in the week’s reading assignments.

All basic concepts learned in previous grades are completely reviewed. Place value to billions; rounding off whole numbers, money, decimals, and mixed numbers; factoring; multiples; converting measures within the same system; perimeter and area; geometric ideas and shapes; line graphs, bar graphs, grids and scale drawings; measurement equations; algebraic equations with addition, subtraction, multiplication, and division; three-digit divisors; four-digit multiplication; division of decimals; fractions as decimals; introduction to percent, decimals with percent, percent as fractions, and word problems are presented in understandable ways.

This course clearly teaches about our Creator and His special design of the human body. The skeleton, the brain and nerves, the blood and the circulatory system, the special senses, and enemies of good health are just some of the topics covered in this course.