1st quarter
Math:
- Place value of whole numbers
- Bench marking
- Compare and order whole numbers
- Using tables
- Decimal place value
- Equivalent decimals
- Comparing and ordering decimal numbers
- Add and subtract whole numbers and decimal numbers
- Algebraic subtraction and addition
- Expressions and variables
- Write equations
- Solve equations
- Inequalities
- Data and graphing: Collect data, organize, graph, analyze
- Mean, median and mode
- Graph ordered pairs
- Make graphs
Science:
- Review: Fields of science, ethics in science, science safety, the scientific method
- It's a wondrous universe: the big and little of it
- Observation (qualitative and quantitative), measuring, recording data
- Making inferences, hypothesis and experimentation
- Use of natural resources, conservation
- Environmental protection of air, land and water
- Field trip to USFWS Rocky Mountain Arsenal
- Climate and weather, water cycle
- Earth's structure, rock cycle
Religion:
- Prayers and personal prayer plan
- The sacraments: Baptism, Holy Eucharist, Confirmation, Holy Orders, Matrimony, Reconciliation, Anointing of the sick
- The Mass
- Vestments and sacred objects
- Human dignity, support of, the less fortunate
- All souls day
2nd quarter
Math:
- Multiply whole numbers by 1 and 2 digit numbers
- Multiply decimal numbers
- Divide whole numbers by 1 and 2 digit numbers
- Divide decimals by whole numbers
- Algebraic multiplication and division: expressions, equations, order of operations, patterns, functions
- Factors and multiples: divisibility rules, greatest common factor (GCF), least common multiple (LCM)
- Exponents
- Prime and composite numbers
- Prime factors and exponents
- Fractions: equivalent, simplest form
- Mixed numbers
- Compare and order mixed numbers and fractions
- Relate fractions and decimals
Science:
- Stars: Name, measure and classify
- Comets, asteroids and meteors
- The technology of space exploration
- Density and solubility
- Air and water: fluid properties
- The elements and the periodic table
- Matter: it's composition and properties (affects of heat)
- Changing forms of energy
Religion:
- Examination of conscience, reconciliation
- Social interaction: appropriate behavior, dress, no bully behavior
- Community and family interaction: self respect and respect of the community
- Community service
- Stewardship
- The Joyful Mysteries
- Advent
3rd quarter
Math:
- Add and subtract like fractions
- Add and subtract unlike fractions
- Estimate sums and differences
- Use common denominators
- Use the least common denominator
- Add mixed numbers
- Subtract mixed numbers with borrowing
- Multiply fractions with fractions, whole numbers and mixed numbers
- Divide fractions: Whole number by fractions, fractions by fractions
- Geometry: lines and angles, polygons, circles, congruent and similar, symmetry
- Triangles, quadrilaterals, transformations and tessellations, solid figures
- Integers: positive and negative numbers, compare and order, add and subtract
- Coordinate plane: Graph integers, transformations
Science:
- Cells and their functions, organelle functions
- Organs
- Five levels of body organization: cells, tissues, organs, organ systems, organism
- Skeletal and muscular systems
- Digestive, excretory and reproductive systems
- Plants: Photosynthesis and respiration
- Oxygen and nitrogen cycles
Religion:
- The Rosary: the mysteries
- Gifts of the Holy Spirit, Virtues
- Vocations: God's call
- Open your heart, open your mind
- Saint Valentine
4th quarter
Math:
- Customary and metric length measurements
- Customary and metric mass, weight and capacity
- Time and temperature
- Perimeter
- Circumference: (pi = 3.14159265)
- Area: squares, rectangles, triangles, parallelograms
- Surface area and volume
- Ratios and proportions
- Scale drawings
- Percent
- Relate decimals, fractions and percent
- Compare decimals, fractions and percents
- Probability and predictions
Science:
- Force and motion: Newton's three laws
- Kinetic and potential energy
- Friction and resistance
- Energy sources
- Field trip to NREL
Religion:
- Lent and Easter
- Christ's Baptism
- 5th grade Mass at the Cathedral
- Bible stories
- Stories of the Saints
- Forgiveness
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