2023 Fifth-Grade Curriculum Kit

We wanted our Curriculum Handbook to be extremely simple, easy to use, and promote independent study as early as possible. Our guides are designed to get you up and running today without being overwhelming, boring, or confusing.

With 101 Doodle Definitions, your student will discover that by drawing a picture to remind him of a word, his brain will more readily remember the word’s meaning. This groundbreaking mnemonic approach to learning, and remembering, the meanings of words covers 101 of the most-used words on standardized tests.

Mosdos Press Literature is a complete literature program that reinforces the ideals of courage, honesty, loyalty, and compassion. Readings are from both classic and contemporary works. Mosdos Press Literature includes a beautifully illustrated student reader with selections of fiction, nonfiction, poetry, drama, the novella; an engaging student activity workbook; and a detailed and well-organized teacher’s edition. 

Coral’s integrated literature and language arts study for fifth grade continues to encourage thinking about important themes; there are over 600 pages of prose, poetry, plays, and nonfiction narratives to challenge the mind of the fifth-grade reader.

Spelling You See will help your child become a confident, successful speller, naturally and at his own speed. Because Spelling You See encourages visual memory rather than rote memory, there are no weekly spelling lists or tests and very little instructor preparation is required.

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Jump In is an easy-to-use creative writing program aimed at independent learning. The illustrated workbook, lots of white space, large font, and short incremental daily assignments camouflage the workhorse that it is. Jump In teaches your child to write persuasive papers, expository essays, descriptions, narration, and poetry. 

Profound thinking requires both imagination and intellectual ideas. To produce excellence in thinking, we need to engage our children in a curriculum that overlaps the logical and the imaginative sides of thinking. Critical & Creative Thinking Activities does just that with theme-based units giving your child practice thinking in a variety of ways. 

America the Beautiful’s all-in-one American history, geography, and literature course covers not only historical events from AD 1000 to the present but also natural, God-created attractions; major landmarks; biographies; and what daily life looked like during various eras. Includes a plethora of historical photographs, color photos, illustrations, and artwork.

America the Beautiful Student Workbook is a book of crosswords, find-a-words, matching, codes, drawing assignments, and other handwork activities which review and reinforce information learned in the daily lessons. 

Introduce your student to some of the most clever, tenacious unsung heroes of World War II with this collection of 4 true stories. Encounter a squadron of female pilots in dilapidated airplanes and a soldier reputed to be unbreakable. With tales like these, Amazing World War II Stories offers tales of history that stick.

Skill Sharpeners Geography lets your child explore his world while learning key map skills and geography concepts with little fuss on your part. It takes your child beyond just the basics of geography and includes a smattering of histories and cultures within our world.

With small, incremental steps, your student will work through the entire USA, drawing each state as it connects to its neighbors until he can draw it all from memory. Draw the USA is a fun, easy way for your child to learn the states so that he can connect them to weather, history, and current events.

Dr. Bonyfide is a young person's highly entertaining guide to their own body. Dr. Bonyfide Presents will creatively guide your child through the bone structures of his body using kid-friendly jokes, rhymes, puzzles, fun facts, and original comic strips.

Science in the Industrial Age discusses scientific advances, discoveries, inventions, and even errors from the early 1800s to the early 1900s. 

Fairly bursting with experiments, Berean Science offers students an opportunity to study science through the lens of history. Using a narrative dialogue and a Christian worldview, Berean Science teaches science chronologically, so there are vast and varied science topics. Each lesson concludes with questions or additional activities for "younger," "older," and "oldest" students, so Berean Science lends itself well to multigrade homes that prefer to use just one science curriculum for the entire family.

The Berean Science Notebooks are a convenient companion to the Berean texts for busy families. The layout of these Berean Science Notebooks provides just the right amount of lined and unlined space for each lesson. Some lessons even include fill-in-the-blank sentences, diagrams, or other helpful elements. 

The Lab Kit for Science in the Industrial Age contains over 40 of the items that are uncommon household items. This handy kit has virtually all of the more unusual household stocked items in just the quantities you’ll need to complete your experiments.

Please note: Lab kits are non-returnable.

With Watercolor for Young Artists, your child will discover how to mix watercolor paint to create colors and how to make peaceful landscapes. They will even learn what happens when they add table salt, candle wax, or soap to wet paint.

The Test Prep series offers students the essential groundwork needed to prepare for standardized tests. Based on subject areas covered by most state standardized tests, these colorful, inviting workbooks provide a good sampling of all the skills required of each grade level.