Amesbury Seventh-day Adventist School

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Grade 5

Curriculum:

  • BIBLE+

    • Salvation

    • Repentance and forgiveness

    • Brotherhood

    • Freedom of choice

    • Trinity

    • Judgment

    • Second coming

    • God highly values me

    • God is trustworthy

    • Growth of faith

    • Christian service opportunities

    • Decision making

    • Leadership skills

    • God’s message to man

  • ART

    • Realism and abstractions

    • Vocabulary

    • Interpreting feelings and ideas in art

    • Mixing intermediate, secondary and primary colors

    • Positive and negative space

    • Emphasis, balance, unity

    • Hues, textures, and shapes in creation

    • Acquaintance with artists’ lives and their works

    • Fabric comparisons: color, texture, design

    • Media experimentation

    • Proportion and perspective

    • Collage, paper mache, block prints, enlargements

    • Organic and inorganic

    • Elements and principles of design

    • Print making

    • Construction and assembly 3-D

    • Still life

    • Neutral colors

  • COMPUTERS

    • Careers and impact on jobs

    • Central processing unit

    • Operating systems

    • Ethics and commercial programs

    • Entering and editing text

    • Block, copy, move, fonts

    • Fields, files, records, data entry

    • Update records, sorting, report preparation

  • LANGUAGE ARTS

    • Reading and Literature

      • Read at instructional level

      • Read independently for information

      • Word analysis: context clues, root words, prefixes and suffixes, accent marks

      • Comprehension: author’s intent, skimming, scanning, inference, summarizing, paraphrasing, prediction

      • Variety of literature: classics, contemporary, multi-cultural

      • Compare literary forms and types

      • Analysis of media: point of view

    • Speaking

      • Vocabulary and usage

      • Discussion and conversation

      • Reports and messages

      • Christian drama: audience awareness, empathy

      • Presence and behavior

    • Spelling

      • Assigned words

      • Organized spelling plan

      • Spells correctly written work

    • Listening

      • Courtesy and appreciation

      • Information

      • Critical thinking: fact versus opinion, persuasive words, nonverbal cues

    • Writing

      • Legibility

      • Composition, reports, letters, poetry, journal

      • Parts of speech: nouns, verbs, pronouns, demonstrative and predicate adjectives, negative adverbs, objects, prepositional phrases

      • Sentence types

      • Essays, news articles, and editorials

    • Study Skills and Reference

      • Note taking, outlining

      • Concordance and index

      • Library and media center: card catalog and computer access

  • MATHEMATICS

    • Distributive, commutative and associative properties

    • Common and decimal fractions

    • Ratio and percent

    • Conversion standard and metric measurements

    • Geometric concepts

    • Word problems and applications

    • Charts and graphs

    • Estimation

    • Integers

    • Fractions and mixed numbers: fundamental processes

    • Statistics: introduction

    • Multiplying by 2 and 3 digit multipliers

    • Dividing by 2 digit divisors

    • Multiplying, dividing with money, decimals

  • MUSIC

    • Dotted note rhythms

    • Simple syncopation

    • Double and triple meter patterns

    • Simple melodic patterns

    • Musical phrasing

    • Descant

    • Lines and space names of bass clef

    • Recognize and appreciate composers and their works

    • Symbols for sharp, flat and natural

    • Crescendo, decrescendo, diminuendo, ritardando, and accelerando symbols and meanings

    • Theme and variations form

    • Baroque period: instrumental, choral styles, and hymns

    • Keyboard, instrumental, and choral styles

    • Keyboard instruments: history

    • Hymn writers: i.e., Isaac Watts

    • Classroom singing

  • PHYSICAL EDUCATION

    • Motor skills

      • team sports, track, lead-up games

    • Fitness

      • testing, agility, running, jogging, cardiovascular endurance

    • Positive attitudes

      • self-worth, self-control, patience, responsibility

    • Concepts

      • strategies, history, sports

    • Interpersonal skills

      • cooperation, sportsmanship, leadership, respect

  • SCIENCE & HEALTH+

    • God as creator and sustainer

    • Cells

    • Classification of living things

    • Fish, birds, mammals

    • Reptiles and amphibians

    • Ocean ecology

    • Meteorology, weather, climate

    • Personality and self-concept

    • Emotional health

    • Reproductive system

    • Development and birth

    • Waves of energy

    • Light, sound, heat

    • Substance abuse

    • Communicable diseases: TB, AIDS, measles

  • SOCIAL STUDIES+

    • Westward expansion, colonial and pioneer life

    • Gaining world power

    • Cultural groups and diversity throughout history

    • National geography, natural resources, topography, map and globe skills

    • National history, people, places, and events

    • Neighboring countries

    • Democracy principles and doctrines

    • Governments: various nations

    • Economics and economic systems

  • + Subjects may alternate for grades 5 and 6 and for grades 7 and 8. Materials are adapted to the appropriate grade level.