Grade: Fifth
Duration: 36 weeks
Children study select movements of art in chronological order from pointillism to pop art. This course provides lesson guides with descriptions, vocabulary, concepts, review questions, and enrichment activities for all 36 works.
Grade: Fifth
Duration: 36 weeks
In fifth grade prose, children escape a cave with Tom Sawyer and Becky Thatcher, venture to Riverboro with Rebecca of Sunnybrook, and ponder deeper meanings of thought-provoking short stories. This course provides lesson guides with synopses, vocabulary, concepts, review questions, and enrichment activities.
Grade: Fifth
Duration: 36 weeks
This course updates and expands 'Comprehensive World Geography' by James Monteith. Through interactive mapwork, children study the continents, the oceans, the countries, the landforms, and the cities of our world. This course provides a printable pdf providing written mapwork to accompany the lessons.
Grade: Fifth
Duration: 36 weeks
Fifth grade American history covers the War of 1812, the 1800s exploration and expansion of the country, the American Civil War, early American presidents, and early American inventions, literature, and art. This course provides lesson guides with descriptions, vocabulary, concepts, review questions, and enrichment activities.
Grade: Fifth
Duration: 36 weeks
Fifth grade music showcases the twelve of the famous composers featured in the 'Child's Own Book of Famous Musicians' series by Thomas Tapper. Learn about the lives and music of Bach, Beethoven, Chopin, Mozart, and other titans of composition. Lesson guides with directions, synopses, and enrichment activities accompany all 36 musical lessons. All of the music is included on the website. Just click a button and enjoy!
Grade: Fifth
Duration: 36 weeks
Fifth grade poetry overviews nine poetic forms: 1) Sijo, 2) Haiku, 3) Limerick, 4) Sonnet, 5) Epitaph, 6) Acrostic, 7) Visual, 8) Ode, and 9) Blank Verse. This course incorporates poetry, mapwork, discussion, analysis, copywork, narration, and artwork. Featured poets include Lord Alfred Tennyson, Phillis Wheatley, William Wordsworth, Robert Frost, and Lewis Carroll.
Grade: Fifth
Duration: 36 weeks
Fourth year drawing expands upon the prior year's drawing lessons and introduces painting with watercolors. Students draw the basic forms in three dimensions and learn to create washes, tones, and scales using watercolors. Materials required to complete the lessons include pencils, drawing paper or a notebook, watercolors (6 standard colors plus gray, brown, and black), 5x7 watercolor paper or pad, and assorted sizes of paintbrushes.
Grade: Fifth
Duration: 36 weeks
Fifth grade science introduces concepts and examples related to rocks and minerals including the atom, matter, the periodic table, physical and chemical properties, and the rock cycle. Children venture outdoors on nature walks and create a field journal. A rock hardness test kit with labeled sample minerals, a streak plate, a nail, etc. enriches field study for this course, but is not required. At the time of this writing, kits may be purchased online for $10.00 and up.
Grade: Fifth
Duration: 36 weeks
Have you ever been to Grammar-land? Fifth grade grammar overviews the nine parts-of-speech: nouns, pronouns, verbs, adjectives, adverbs, prepositions, conjunctions, articles/determiners, and interjections. This gentle introduction to the nine parts-of-speech leverages M.L. Nesbitt's Grammar-Land and Alice E. Ball's The Child's Own English Book.
Grade: Fourth
Duration: Child-dependent
This course integrates text and audio recordings of McGuffey's Third Eclectic Reader to provide a time-tested reading curriculum with no additional textbook costs. McGuffey Readers were used in American schools for over a century. This course provides lesson guides along with a printable pdf containing vocabulary, copywork, narration, and dictation.
Grade: Fifth
Duration: Child-dependent
As taught by teachers of bygone eras and recommended by 'The Eclectic Manual of Methods,' this course interweaves related theory and problem sets from 'Ray's New Intellectual Arithmetic,' 'Ray's Practical Arithmetic,' and 'Ray's New Test Exam.' This course continues the third-fourth grade course with factoring, fractions, decimal fractions, the metric system, and percentages. This course also provides a workbook of text exercises and an answer key.
Grade: Fifth
Duration: Child-dependent
This course integrates text and audio recordings of McGuffey's Fourth Eclectic Reader to provide a time-tested reading curriculum with no additional textbook costs. McGuffey Readers were used in American schools for over a century.
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