Several other field trips are offered to enhance the fourth grade curriculum. Fifth Grade Fifth grade is focusing on Gateways and data-driven instruction. The IMS test item bank is being used to determine in which skills individual students need remediation, acceleration, and enrichment. Fifth grade teachers are committed to teaching each child to maximize his or her learning opportunities. Manipulatives and real-life experiences are being used to make math instruction more concrete and permanent.
Literature circles help students explore personal responses to literature.
Independent learning and study skills are being taught through science and social studies lessons, projects and centers. Each year, the fifth grades attend the opera and also take a tour of the middle school which they will attend the following year. The program also provides the opportunity for them to interact with developmentally non-disabled peers as they are able. In an academic environment, students work on literacy and math skills. Selected science and social studies units are incorporated from all three grades.