Overall Theme for the Year
Ages 10 - 11 years old
In Grade 5, students will explore various units of enquiry that cover personal health, human relationships, and empathy. They will study ancient civilizations, and will connect the past with the present. Through storytelling, students will express their ideas and creativity while learning about scientific principles and technological advances. They will examine economic activities, human-made systems, and societal structures, focusing on fairness and sustainability. Additionally, students will explore the allocation of finite resources, individual rights and responsibilities, as well as conflict resolution to promote equal opportunities and peaceful coexistence within communities.
Language Art
- Writing: Students engage in various writing styles, including recounts (autobiographies, diaries, journals), descriptive writing, narratives, explanations, and instructional texts (recipes, manuals).
- Reading: Developing strategies such as connecting, predicting, summarizing, paraphrasing, inferring, and creating images. Novel studies include "The Wishing Tree" and "The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind".
- Speaking and Listening: Skills enhancement through discussions, conversations, oral reports, inquiries, storytelling, and debates.
- Viewing: Recognizing different representations in texts, adjusting viewing strategies, and understanding the purpose and audience of multimodal texts.
Mathematics
- Basic Operations and Place Value: Students practice addition, subtraction, multiplication, and division with multi-digit numbers, and understand place value and decimal operations.
- Fractions: Emphasis on fraction equivalence, comparison, and operations like multiplication and division.
- Geometry: Exploring shapes, angle measurement, and properties of two and three-dimensional figures on the coordinate plane.
- Advanced Operations: Multiplying and dividing fractions, and performing advanced operations with decimals and fractions.
- Measurement and Data: Topics include finding volume, comparing measurements, and understanding data sets and distributions.
Science
- Biological Sciences: Study of the characteristics, systems, and behaviors of humans, animals, and plants, and their environmental interactions.
- Material Sciences: Exploring origins and properties of human-made materials and their purposes.
- Physical Sciences: Understanding forces, scientific principles, and applying scientific knowledge through inventions and machines.
- Earth and Space Sciences: Studying natural phenomena, Earth's systems, and its relationship with the sun, including finite and infinite resources.
Social Studies
- Social Organization and Culture: Exploring interactions and organization within and among societies.
- Economic Activities: Studying human systems, economic activities, and local and global economic interconnections, including trade, supply, and demand.
- Continuity and Change: Learning about historical figures and events to understand how they changed the future and helped shape the present.
Entrepreneurship
- Basic Business Concepts: Understanding what a business is, different types of businesses, and the basics of how businesses operate.
- Idea Generation and Creativity: Learning how to brainstorm ideas for products or services and thinking creatively to solve problems.
- Marketing and Branding: Understanding the basics of marketing, how to create a brand, and ways to promote a business.
- Financial Literacy: Introduction to basic financial concepts such as money management, budgeting, and simple profit and loss calculations.
Programming and Logical Thinking
- Basic Coding Skills: Learning fundamental coding concepts such as sequences, loops, and conditionals using age-appropriate programming languages.
- Logical Problem Solving: Developing logical thinking and problem-solving skills through puzzles, games, and simple programming tasks.
- Algorithmic Thinking: Understanding how to break down tasks into step-by-step instructions that a computer can follow.
- Digital Literacy: Gaining familiarity with basic computer operations, internet safety, and responsible use of technology.
