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5th Grade
Calvert’s comprehensive curriculum materials include everything you need for a full year of teaching.

Comprehensive Review of History and Classic Literature
Our 5th Grade students begin to draw connections between subject matter such as American History, Literature, and Geography by reading classic novels, such as Sing Down the Moon and The Sign of the Beaver. Essential writing skills continue to develop through this curriculum including paragraphing, outlining, and summarizing. Your child will write original reports, stories, and essays using the lessons about sentence types in our grammar unit.
Two different math options are available with our 5th Grade curriculum: 1) Calvert Math, a traditional math program where students learn perimeter, area, and volume, multiply and divide up to three digits, understand geometry points, lines, and rays, measure angles, add mixed numerals and decimals, and begin studying statistics, graphing and probability or 2) Math in Focus, a new, modernized math approach where students compare and order numbers up to 100,000, use multiplying and dividing by tens, hundreds, and thousands, read and write ratios, simplify algebraic expressions, and determine the surface area and volume of three dimensional shapes.
The Tools You Need Plus Unlimited Support
Our comprehensive 5th grade homeschool program includes everything you need to successfully educate your child at home: print textbooks, workbooks, reading books, maps, science and math kits, activity pages, tests, and more! Our print and online Lesson Manuals include complete daily lesson plans and step-by-step instructions.
All Calvert programs also include access to the Calvert Teaching Navigator, our innovative online resource that makes homeschooling with Calvert easier and more flexible than ever before. Plus, every enrollment includes free, unlimited Teacher Support from our highly trained and certified Education Counselors.
What your child will learn in 5th Grade:
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- Reading children’s classics and Newbery Award winners
- Developing critical thinking and comprehension skills
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Spelling & Vocabulary
- Reinforcing correct spelling through daily exercises and spelling strategies
- Reviewing commonly misspelled words
- Introducing cross-curricular words
- Integrating spelling with phonics, vocabulary studies, reading, and writing
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- Writing reports and original stories
- Paragraphing
- Outlining subjects from History, Reading, Geography, and Science lessons
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- Multiplying up to three digits
- Geometry points, lines, and rays
- Measuring angles
- Adding mixed numerals and decimals
- Multiplying and dividing decimals
- Adding, subtracting, dividing and multiplying fractions
- Perimeter, area, volume
- Statistics, graphing, and probability
- Ratios and percents
View a sample Calvert Math lesson
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- Multiplying and dividing by tens, hundreds, and thousands
- Multiplying multiple-digit numbers by two-digit numbers
- Reading and writing ratios
- Simplifying algebraic expressions
- Graphing equations, determining the surface area and volume of three-dimensional shapes
View a sample Math in Focus lesson
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- Studying plants
- Weather and climate
- Energy
- Matter
- Earth and its resources
- Ecosystems
- The human body
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Technology
Lessons, activities, and online interactive learning tools are integrated with the curriculum, particularly Science.
- Practicing keyboarding and touch typing
- Intermediate word processing and desktop publishing
- Database and Internet research skills
- Graphs, tables, and formulas in spreadsheets
- Creating databases
- Basic HTML
- Using presentation software
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- Memorizing
- Reading
- Literary devices
- Symbolism
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Surveying American history from ancient civilizations through September 11, 2001.
- Emphasizing early American Indian cultures and colonization
- The Revolution
- Westward expansion
- The Civil War and its aftermath
- Industrialization
- The United States in the 20th century
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- Exploring the five themes of geography
- Studying the United States by region, with focus on landforms, waterways, natural resources, parks, monuments, cities, state capitals, industry, agriculture, and climate
- State reports
- Extending map and globe skills
- Canada and Latin America
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Using A Child’s History of Art: Painting, by Hillyer and Huey, cover paintings from Ancient Egypt through the modern art movement
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Learning different art techniques, including contour, naturalism, murals, and linear perspective; applying techniques discussed in Art History
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