South Carolina Calvert Academy Fifth Grade Virtual School

Fifth Grade Course Materials

By now your child will have a fully integrated complete curriculum containing all subjects. Fifth Graders learn the connections between American history, literature, and geography by reading classic historical novels such as Sing Down the Moon and
The Sign of the Beaver.

Essential writing skills continue to be developed, including paragraphing, outlining, and summarizing. Your child will write original reports, stories, and essays using the lessons about sentence types in our grammar unit.

Fifth Grade Calvert Math emphasizes problem-solving steps. Math covers multiplication up to three digits, geometry, multiplying and dividing fractions, and introduces integers.

Technology instruction includes research skills and basic HTML. In science, your child will study plants, weather, climates, and ecosystems. The geography unit focuses on regions of the United States.

Most exciting and unique to Calvert is our inclusion of art history in the Fifth Grade curriculum. Your child’s classical education will include picture study and A Child’s History of Art: Painting, another text written by Virgil Hillyer.

Course Materials
• Lesson Manual
• Computer Skills & Applications Manual
• The Secret Garden
• Sing Down the Moon
• Number the Stars
• Shiloh
• The Sign of the Beaver
• Call It Courage
• Activity Pages
• Critical Thinking: Level E
• Reading Comprehension: Level E
• Everyday Spelling
• Calvert Mastery Series: Spelling 5 (online)
• Grammar & Usage
• CalvertMath LessonManual
• Calvert Math
• Calvert Math Practice
and Enrichment Workbook
• McGraw-Hill Science
• American Tall Tales
• Build Our Nation
• A Child’s Study of Famous Americans
• The Cat Who Escaped from Steerage
• Song of the Trees
• Student Atlas
• A Child’s History of Art: Painting
• Art Card Portfolio
• Answer Keys for DailyWork (online)
• Supplies, including watercolors
and colored pencils