St. Paul Lutheran School

Putting Faith in Education

· Christ centered environment

 

· High academic expectations

 

· Daily devotions

 

· Development of independent study skills

 

· Computer time

 

· Respect for everyone in the classroom

What your child can expect in 5th Grade at St. Paul

Fifth Grade Topics

 

Religion

· The Bible as God’s inspired Word

· Martin Luther and the Reformation

· Deliverance of God’s people

· Old Testament leaders

· Israel’s kings

· Prophecies

· Israel’s captivity and return

· Prophecies fulfilled in Jesus

· Memory work

 

Spelling

· Spelling strategies

· Content area words

· Structural conventions of English spelling

· Vocabulary study

 

Literature

· Comprehension skills

· Strategies

· Information and study skills

· Decoding words

· Vocabulary skills and expansion

 

Social Studies

· Map skills

· Exploration and colonization

· War for Independence

· Expansion and conflict

· Growth at home and abroad

· Into the Twentieth Century

· Modern times

 

Language

· Parts of speech

· Mechanics

· Sentence structure

· Word usage

· Writing skills

· Vocabulary building

· Writing

 

Math

· Introduction to algebraic reasoning

· Estimation

· Order of operations

· Decimals & fractions

· Measures of central tendency

· Customary/metric systems

· Graphing data

· Geometric skills

· Problem solving strategies

· Applications to real-world

To Contact Us:

Phone: 815-562-6323

Fax: 815-561-8074

E-mail: stpaul@rochelle.net

5th Grade Teacher Mr. Fred Wren

 

    This is Mr. Wren’s 5th year teaching at St. Paul.  He graduated from Concordia University-Nebraska in May 2006 with a bachelor’s degree in Elementary Education.