Fifth Grade Curriculum

Math: Saxon Math (according to placement test)

Phonics & Spelling: Logic of English Phonograms & Spelling Rules, WISE Guide to Spelling

English Grammar: Shurley English 5

Composition: Wonders of Science (IEW)

Cursive: New American Cursive 3

Natural Philosophy: Noeo Science

Theology: Veritas Bible (see below), Heidelberg Catechism

History & Geography: Veritas History (see below) plus supplemental material, Map Drawing (Bortins)

Latin: Second Form Latin (Memoria)

Recitation: Poetry & Scripture

Art Appreciation: Memoria Press Art Cards

Music Enrichment: Classical Composer, Concepts, & Songs

Literature: Covenant Classical Fifth Grade Book List:

  • Sign of the Beaver by Elizabeth George Speare

  • Shh! We’re Writing the Constitution by Jean Fritz

  • The Landing of the Pilgrims by James Daugherty

  • Tuck Everlasting by Natalie Babbitt

  • Adventures of Tom Sawyer by Mark Twain

  • A Wrinkle in Time by Madeleine L’Engle

  • The Silver Chair by C.S. Lewis

  • Isaac Newton: the Scientist Who Changed Everything by Philip Steele

  • Wind in the Willows by Kenneth Grahame

  • Swiss Family Robinson by Johann Wyss

Music and jingles are integrated throughout the curriculum, and we hope to add PE, music, and art as formal specials when resources are available.

The curriculum plans will be subject to ongoing Board and faculty review and fine-tuning.

Bible & History will rotate for the school from 1 to 5 depending on the year; depth of study will correspond to grade level (2nd - 6th).

Bible cycles:

  1. Genesis to Joshua

  2. Judges to Kings

  3. Chronicles to Malachi and Job

  4. Gospels

  5. Acts to Revelation

History cycles:

  1. Old Testament & Ancient Egypt

  2. New Testament, Greece & Rome

  3. Middles Ages, Renaissance & Reformation

  4. Explorers to 1815

  5. 1815 to Present

“Education without values, as useful as it is, seems rather to make man a more useful devil.”

- C.S. Lewis