By: Darcie Steeves, Grade 5 TeacherThe skills listed below are introduced, reviewed or mastered during the fifth grade year at our school. I thought this would be useful in preparation for 6th grade.LANGUAGE ARTS
- mastery of reading and writing in cursive
- working knowledge of all nine parts of speech
- ability to distinguish between direct and indirect speech
- ability to distinguish between active and passive voice
- understand and write a friendly personal letter with correct format
- working knowledge of perfect verb tenses
- ability to use a wide range of reference materials – atlas, dictionary, glossary, encyclopedia
- mastery of writing a paragraph with a topic sentence
- understand and write a three part essay on a theme with support from teacher
MATH
- mastery of four operations with fractions, including mixed numbers and improper fractions
- working knowledge of four operations with decimals
- familiarity with the relationship between fractions and decimals
- master of times tables in random order up to 12
- working knowledge of the basic geometry of circles and triangles, including types of triangles (i.e., right, isosceles, equilateral and scalene)