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Welcome to 5th Grade!

 

Hello 5th grade students, parents, and families!

    Our fifth grade team is looking forward to working alongside your child for the 2024-2025 school year. Throughout the year, our team is committed to teaching your child all of the necessary academic standards along with grade level appropriate social-emotional skills and executive functioning skills to be successful. 

    Upper elementary is a wonderful time for our growing children. Students are learning their interests, developing their own beliefs, and thus becoming a unique individual. 5th grade students not only make large strides within their own sense of self, but the workload and amount of responsibility this year significantly increases as well. 5th grade students are going to be learning about higher level academic concepts in addition to life skills such as accountability, time management, and organizational systems and tools. There will be some uncomfortable changes happening for all of the kids throughout the year, but having the students learn about these increased responsibilities this year will make an easier transition for the following year. 

    In 5th grade, students begin to have multiple teachers for various content areas. All content area teachers will be providing the same norms, grading policy, and high expectations to keep all children on track. Students will be expected to hold themselves accountable for missing work as our content area teachers have an increased number of students. If a child is unhappy with their overall grade in a course, the student is expected to meet with the content area teacher to discuss how their grade can be improved. This promotes the students taking ownership of their own learning experiences and allows for them to practice self advocacy, an essential skill to learn as children continue to grow and mature. 

    This year will be a particularly transformative year and with your support, we are going to ensure that your child is ready for middle school and beyond. Our fifth grade team is always here to assist you in any way that we can. We are looking forward to a productive school year! 

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