Grade Five Curriculum Outline
Mrs. Maxwell Williams / Miss Heppell
MATHEMATICS
Term 1 – Numbers
Relationships that exist between numbers.
Number Theory
1. Whole, odd, even, composite and fractional
2. Express a whole number as a product of primes
3. Identify multiples of a number and highest and lowest common multiples of two or more numbers.
Whole Number Place Value to millions
4. Decimal Place values of numbers to thousandths
5. Roman numerals
6. Estimation – Rounding off ten, hundred and thousand
7. Four basic rules – addition, subtraction, multiplication and division
8. Fractions
9. Problem solving using four basic rules
Measurements
1. Mass and Capacity – gram, kilogram, tonne, millilitre, litre and kilolitre.
2. Length – millimetre, centimetre, decimetre, metre and kilometre.
3. Area – rectangle, triangle and circular region.
4. Temperature
5. Time
6. Calculate time intervals between events
Percentages
1. Solving percentages problems
2. Profit and loss.
Money
1. Writing amounts of money in numbers and symbols
2. Banking
a) Types of accounts and types of banks
b) Deposit, withdrawal, cheques
c) Loans – interest, rate, repayment period
d) Money problems
Geometry
1. Basic Geometrical Ideas – points, space, curves, parallel, perpendicular, line segments
2. Use protractor to measure angles
3. Types of angles – acute, right, obtuse, reflex
Polygons
1. Model, identify and name polygons
2. Identify opposite and adjacent angles
3. Triangles – equilateral, isosceles, scalene and right angled
4. Distinguish between similar and congruent figures
5. Circle – identify parts
Algebra
1. Equation – finding n when n represents an addend or sum in a mathematical sentence.
2. Solving word problems.
Statistics
Graphs
1. Draw pictographs, circle graphs, line and bar graphs to show data.
2. Discuss the appropriate uses of various tables and graphs
3. Solve problems in which data is given by means of graphs and diagrams.
4. Mathematical averages.
5. Calculate the mean of a set of numbers
6. Find mode, median and range.
LANGUAGE ARTS
Term 1
1. Adventures with books.
2. SomeCaribbeancustoms
Term 2
1. Weather
2. The food we eat.
Term 3
1. Exploring our country
Reading
Spelling and Vocabulary
Content words from Science, Social Studies, Mathematics, Religious Education and
HFLE
Mechanics and Structure
1. Parts of speech – show understanding of the functions
2. Generate and use homonyms, synonyms, suffixes and prefixes
3. Tenses – present, past, future, continuous
4. Nouns – number, possessive form, abstract, proper and common
5. Adjectives – degrees of comparison
Punctuation Marks
1. Concord– subject/verb agreement
2. Figures of speech
Composition
Use of sentences to create paragraphs
SCIENCE
Term 1
Unit 1 – Weather and Climate
– Difference between weather and climate
– Elements of weather
– Instruments used to measure the various elements of weather
Unit 2 – Forces and its effects
Term 2
1. Energy Forms
2. Nutrition
Term 3
Food/energy chains
SOCIAL STUDIES
Term 1
- Our Caribbean neighbours
- Location of Caribbean nations
- Cardinal and semi-cardinal points on a compass rose
- Groupings within the regions
- Landmasses and water bodies in the region
Term 2
1. The physical environment of theCaribbean
2. Resources of theCaribbean
Term 3
1. Co-operation among neighbours
2. Caribbean Nation builders
RELIGIOUS EDUCATION
Term 1
- Major world religions in the Caribbean
- Judaism
- Christianity
- Islam
- Hinduism
Term 2
- Religious groups that began in Jamaica
Term 3
1. Religious groups that began in other Caribbean countries
Visit the Students’ Art Gallery
