Grade 5

While Grade 5 students still spend the majority of their academic time in homerooms, they continue to build their skills as independent and collaborative workers and begin to develop the self-advocacy, organization, and study skills that will serve them well when they transition into our Upper School.

Grade 5 students begin to gain a global perspective and learn to view the world through an inclusive lens, focusing on connections across the curriculum, and culminating with International Night.

Grade 5 Highlights

International Studies Project
5th Grade Talk - Who Am I?
Pals program
Malawi Children's Mission Cultural Exchange
Student Council
Bridge Engineering Contest
Caine's Arcade Cardboard Inventor's Challenge

In the Classroom

Math Program

By the end of Grade 5, students are confident in math concepts such as the mechanics of multiplication and division, locating coordinates, and writing explanations for solutions to problems in their own words. They become more familiar with calculating surface area and volume, algebraic concepts and probability, ratios, and rates as they apply creative techniques to solve non-routine math problems.

Science Program

Our Grade 5 science students use a hands-on approach to understanding science concepts such as astronomy, simple machines, and ecology, while using the scientific method and conducting research projects and presentations, laboratory investigations, dissection, and exciting estuary field work. Spanish classes advance their vocabulary and grammatical structures as they formulate more complex sentences, write paragraphs, and begin to explore Spanish literature.

Spanish

Language Arts

Grade 5 students hone their skills as readers and writers through a combination of content area exploration and explicit language arts instruction. Students experiment with both creative and expository writing through stories and poetry, personal response essays, research papers, lab and research reports, refining Students continue to develop on their journey as competent and confident public speakers through a wide variety of presentation experiences, including International Night.

Writing Program

Grade 5 dives into the creative writing process, explores stories and poems, and crafts personal responses to readings and essays. Students refine their paragraph development, and learn to correctly format papers and add proper documentation to their research. Grammar and mechanics are incorporated into classwork as students study sentence parts and types, sentence diagramming, and parts of speech.

Reading Program

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