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Fifth Grade Overview

Time4Learning is popular as a Fifth grade homeschool curriculum, for afterschool enrichment, for remediation, and as a summer school alternative.

For Fifth graders, Time4Learning provides language arts, math, science, and social studies.

Time4Learning is an online student-paced learning system covering preschool through middle school.

Fifth Grade Language Arts and Reading

The fifth grade language arts program teaches students reading comprehension skills, grammar, spelling, vocabulary and writing through literature-based units and language-based units. Beginning with five thematic language arts units, students will read literature, develop, and apply skills from a variety of lessons, which are followed by quizzes and assessments. Student learning is further enhanced through printable resources and extension activities found within the teaching guides and lesson plans (accessible through the parent administration page.)

The fifth grade curriculum expands to include ten chapters on vocabulary, focusing on synonyms, antonyms, affixes, homophones, and figurative language. Multiple lessons on literature characteristics of different genres develop understanding and application for fifth grade readers and writers. Tools for learning (effective listening, expressing opinions, public speaking elements, prose and poetry) are highlighted throughout the 5 th grade curriculum.

Interactive reading comprehension lessons include the teaching of strategies indicative of active reading for children. Activities on summarization, identifying story elements, main idea and details, distinguishing between fact and opinion, charting information, cause and effect, defining, author’s purpose, comparing and contrasting, making inferences and predicting help fifth graders understand and gain insight into their reading and writing. See Lesson Demos

Fifth grade writing focuses on the application of several forms of writing through the Odyssey Writer. Basic practice on paragraph formation leads into the writing of: outlines, letters, reports, compositions, responses, rewriting, and editing.

Many parents have expressed interest in purchasing the full versions of the authentic literature excerpted in the Language Arts section. They can be purchased at the links below but they DO NOT need to be purchased in order to use Time4Learning.

• An American Safari by: Jim Brandeburg
• The Birchbark House by: Louise Erdrich
• The Giver by: Lois Lowry
• Mother and Daughter (from the book: Baseball in April and Other Stories) by: Gary Soto
• The Black Stallion by: Walter Farley

Fifth Grade Math

The fifth grade math curriculum is taught within five units of study: Number Sense, Algebra, Geometry, Measurement, and Data Analysis and Probability, with a particular focus on fractions, decimals, algebraic functions, angles, polygons, perimeter, area, and volume. Interactive online math lessons review and expand upon concepts taught in previous grades, increasing the level of difficulty and introducing new interpretations.

Fifth graders will focus heavily on the relationships and representations of fractions and decimals, applying knowledge of numerators and denominators to mixed numbers, equivalent fractions, and improper fractions. Students will learn to manipulate fractions and decimals though basic operations, number lines, estimation, and simplest form. In fifth grade, students will continue to use number sense concepts for ratios and percentages in preparation for further formula use throughout the geometry and algebra chapters. Fifth Grade Math Lesson Plans

Geometry concepts of two-and three-dimensional shapes, circles, polygons, and angles lead into coordinate geometry, symmetry, and spatial reasoning. Fifth grade math culminates with formula techniques of measurement being used to analyze and solve problems and with lessons in statistic methods as part of data analysis. Lesson Demos

Fifth Grade Science

The fifth grade science curriculum is composed of eight units of study: Scientific Investigation, Changes in Matter, Light, Organisms, Classifying Living Things, Life Cycle and Reproduction, Weather, and Forever Changing Earth. 5 th graders will consistently enhance their scientific understanding through guided online lessons and exploratory activities. Fifth Grade Science Lesson Plans

Beginning with the experimentation process of designing a plan, collecting data through record-keeping, and incorporating a control group, students prepare for complex concepts to come. 5 th graders work toward understanding specific components of matter (atoms, molecules, electrons, protons, neutrons, and compounds) in preparation for units on electrical force, light energy, and organisms.

Fifth grade science covers the five major kingdoms (Monera, Protista, Fungi, Plantae, Animalia), the methods of classifying all living things, and the life cycle of plants. The fifth grade science curriculum culminates with lessons on weather and climates (pressure systems, forecasts, air pressure, and humidity). Geology concepts (plate tectonics, earthquakes, volcanoes and fossils) end the fifth grade science studies. Science Lesson Demos

Fifth Grade Science

The fifth grade social studies curriculum teaches concepts of; Ancient Civilizations, United State History, Political Science, Geography, Economics, and 19 th Century Contributions, through interactive, online lessons. 5th Grade Social Studies Lesson Plans

Fifth graders begin their exploration with a study on innovations, history, politics, literature, and culture of: The Olmec Civilization, Phoenicians Shang/Zhou Dynasty, Nubian Kingdom, and Ancient Greece. United States history throughout the 1800’s, including a major focus on the Civil War is taught through multi-media activities for fifth grade social studies students.

Fifth grade social studies lessons culminate with a study of the economic system (producers, consumer, goods, and services), world and United States Geography, and individual highlights on inventors such as Louis Braille, the Wright Brothers, and Alexander Graham Bell. Lesson Demos

5th Grade Lessons - Time4Learning's Program Structure

Time4Learning provides an interactive student paced curriculum. When the student logs in, they can choose which subject to study. The lessons are organized into units which include multimedia lessons, interactive exercises, printable worksheets for reinforcement, optional parent-teaching guides (with answer keys for the printable worksheets in math) for more indepth work, assessments, a complete printable lesson plan, and online progress reports.

Reports/ Assessments/ Printable Worksheets. Time4Learning understands the importance of tracking student progress.  Fifth grade assessments and quizzes are given throughout the chapters and are automatically graded upon completion.  Parents are able to access the grades and assignments in the reports section by using their own logins and passwords.  The reports section is printable, as are the lessons plans. In addition Time4Learning provides Fifth grade printable worksheets. Parental support is also given through our online parents forum where discussions and questions may be posted amongst experienced users and those that are "just looking".

Help your child succeed with our interactive curriculum. There are thousands of activities, lessons and assessments that will keep your child enthusiastic about learning.