Teachers

Mr. Brent Byrum

Mr. Nate Largent

Mrs. Colleen London

Mrs. Jenny Ford

Mrs. Paula Walker (AG)

Fifth grade expectations: 

As upperclassmen, you are expected to show leadership through modeling appropriate behavior for the rest of the student body.  You must be responsible for yourself to complete all work to the best of your ability, communicate from school to home, and practice skills learned at school to reach mastery.

Over the summer, read atleast one good book, watch weather forecasts, make sure you have memorized all multiplication facts through the 12 times table and can quickly recall individual multiplication facts, spend some time exploring the various genres to determine what most interests you, keep a of summer activities, trips and thoughts.

Below is an overview of what your child can expect to learn in fifth grade:

Science

•      Genetics
•      Ecosystem
•      Weather
•      Heat Transfer
•      Matter
•      Force and Motion
•      Human Body Systems

Math

• Place Value through the thousandths decimal place
• Multiplication by up to two-digit numbers
• division by up to 2-digit divisors
• adding, subtracting, multiplying, and dividing mixed numbers and fractions,
• geometry
• measurement
• graphing with an emphasis on coordinate graphing

Reading

We will continue to build on literary skills by reading more challenging texts with stronger vocabulary. Students will be asked more rigorous questions that will require them to refer to the text, provide explicit facts and summarize.  

Language Arts

• Build vocabulary
• Word structure
• Writing: narratives, opinion, and information/research based

Social Studies

• Early exploration of America, American Revolution, civil war and economics