How to manage Sticky Content?
Enable the "sticky" option within publishing options for 5 of your nodes. Then create a view (using the Views module) and for this view, within the "Sort criteria" of it, make sure to add  "Node: Sticky" as your primary sort criterium (using the Views UI).

When adding this sort criterium to your view, you'll also see "...To list sticky nodes first, set this to descending." (which is what you seem to be looking for).

To finish enter a path for the Views result, and use this path to set it as your frontpage.