A Time for Integration and Accomplishment

Grade 5 students make learning connections. Prior knowledge and skills now come together to enhance and leverage student learning. This creates a growing sense of self-confidence and self-assurance. The classroom teacher facilitates the students’ increased maturity in understanding through integrated projects that require and encourage the application of skills, concepts, and knowledge across disciplines. Grade 5 students are confident, well prepared, and ready for the challenges and opportunities of middle school.

A Snapshot of the Student

Grade 5 students embody industriousness and a sense of pride. They are receptive to challenges and opportunities for action. Although impending adolescence is on the horizon, grade 5 students are focused on integrating and applying skills and ideas. They consider collaboration in groups interesting and fun. Some of the gender boundaries established in Grade 4 come unraveled as students work together. Factual and conceptual information forms the basis for inquiry as students discuss, debate, and justify what they think. Students grasp hold of their abilities to think, organize, write, and take action. They avidly participate in community service, sometimes forming individual projects outside of school. The Grade 5 year provides opportunity after opportunity for students to expand and apply their learning while also taking time to celebrate accomplishments and appreciate those who have made a difference in their lives.