Program
Academics

Fifth Grade

List of 11 items.

  • Reading & Literature

    • Comprehension through oral and written responses to novels and non-fiction
    • Critical thinking: make inferences, discuss themes, and analyze personal voice, point-of-view, and author purpose
    • Novels, short stories, nonfiction, expository writing, and poetry
    • Media for literal text and sub-text
    • Thematic novel studies
    • Meaning of words and phrases as they are used in a text, including figurative languages such as metaphors and similes
  • Writing & Language Arts

    • Organized summaries and paragraphs relating literary events to personal experiences, other texts, and the world
    • Narratives to develop real or imagined experiences or events 
    • Opinion pieces on topics or texts, supporting a point of view 
    • Grammar and spelling rules
    • Research skills: taking notes and long-term writing assignments
    • Informative/explanatory texts to examine a topic and convey ideas and information 
    • Publishing and presenting writing
    • Vocabulary using Classical Roots
  • Social Studies

    • Use primary and secondary sources
    • African American Civil Rights movement
    • European Resistance movement during World War II
    • Activist movements throughout history
  • Mathematics

    • Facility with four basic arithmetic operations applied to whole numbers, fractions, and decimals
    • Measuring 2-D and 3-D shapes
    • Polygons
    • Rounding and estimating whole numbers and decimals
    • Relationships among fractions, decimals, and percents
    • Problem-solving strategies
    • Collecting, organizing, and displaying data
  • Science

    • Living Systems- Redwood Ecology & Overnight trip
    • Climate Change
    • States of Matter
    • Earth & Constellations
  • Spanish

    • High-frequency words
    • Reading of class novel Tumba and related comprehension and extension activities
    • Understanding of culture through the study of geography and peoples of Spanish-speaking countries
    • Listening and speaking skills
    • Writing in Spanish through comprehension activities and “Timed Free Writes”
    • The “súper siete” - the seven most frequently used verbs in Spanish Subject pronouns (yo, tú, él/ella/elle, usted, nosotros, ellos/ellas/elles)
    • Articles (el/la/los/las)
    • Spelling patterns
  • Visual Arts

    • Drawing: light/shade value studies
    • Clay
    • Mixed media collages: Romare Bearden
    • Foreshortening
    • Paint mixing
    • Monochromatic painting
    • Flower rangolis
    • Gee's Bend quilts
    • 3D artwork
  • Music

    • Fourth and fifth-grade choir
    • American folk and popular songs
    • Caribbean folk and popular songs
    • Blues and pre-blues music
    • Intermediate North Indian classical singing
    • Touch stroke and heel-toe techniques on conga drums
    • Scales and arpeggios in solfège
    • Introduction to band for instrumentalists
    • Introduction to Irish music
  • Physical Education

    • Specialized movement skills related to team sports
    • Health-enhancing physical activity
    • Relationship between body type and movement skills
  • Library

    • Literature of Own Voices- notable history/events/holidays reflecting individual/diverse lifestyles and values
    • Digital Citizenship- rights, responsibilities, & opportunities of living in the digital world (safe, legal, ethical)
    • Accessing information through books and online sources
  • Community Engaged Learning

    • Pollinator Posse: grow habitat and care for monarch caterpillars and butterflies with first grade buddies
St. Paul's Episcopal School
116 Montecito Avenue
Oakland, CA 94610
510.285.9600