Mary Sue Hippi
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Aunamarie Rybar
Phone Ext. # 303
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MarySue Hippi teaches fifth grade on Mondays, Tuesdays, and Wednesdays.  She has her Bachelor of Arts from CentralWashingtonUniversity and her Master of Arts in Educational Leadership from University of Portland.  MarySue taught 33 years in public schools before teaching at St. Rose.  She completed the catechetical certification program in the summer of 2007.

Aunamarie Rybar teaches fifth grade on Thursdays and Fridays.  She has her Bachelor of Arts from SeattleUniversity and her Masters in Teaching from SeattleUniversity.  Aunamarie has been teaching for eight years with experience in the public schools as well as St. Rose.  She completed the catechetical certification in the summer of 2007.

Religion
The focus of religion in fifth grade is the Seven Sacraments.  Other major components are the Paschal Mystery, the Trinity, and Creation.  The children also learn assigned scripture from the Old and New Testament.  They will also learn the Joyful Mysteries, the Regina Caeli (Queen of Heaven), and the Prayer for the Souls in Purgatory.

Language Arts
Students learn the writing process, literature, spelling skills, and grammar. Reading skills and strategies such as vocabulary, sequencing, predicting, summarizing, point of view, fact and opinion, and story elements are taught using literature.   They begin the year with reading The Cay by Theodore Taylor.  Then they use Trophies, a reading/language arts program published by Harcourt. 

The students use the writing process (prewrite, draft, revise, edit, and final copy) for letter writing, poetry, persuasive, narrative, descriptive, and expository writing.  They learn grammar skills such as parts of speech, regular and irregular verbs, prefixes, suffixes, root/base words, and possessives. 

The Rebecca Sitton Spelling Program is used in fifth grade. The students learn high frequency words and develop on their own individual spelling lists.

Math
Students continue to work on place value, fractions, adding, subtracting, multiplication and division. They learn to express mathematical relationships with equations using a variable to represent an unknown quantity.  They learn to identify two- and three-dimensional shapes and measure with standard units using the customary and metric systems.  Fifth graders also learn to collect data and represent data using tables and graphs. Strategies to problem solve are taught in all areas of math instruction.

Social Studies
The main themes for fifth grade social studies are United States history and geography.  The students learn about early explorers, colonization, and the Revolutionary War with emphasis on maps, people, resources, and environments.

Science

St. Rose uses the Foss kits through the ESD in Vancouver, WA.  The three units are Landforms, Environments, and Models and Designs.

Fifth graders attend Environmental Education camp at CampHamilton as part of their science curriculum.  They learn how about their relationship with the environment and deepen their sense of responsibility for God’s creation.

Environmental Education  will be __________ this year at ________________.  The cost is $_____ per student.  We are working on fundraising projects throughout the school year to cover the expenses.

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