As fifth grade teachers, we would like to welcome all future fifth grade students to our classes. It is our goal to prepare your children for sixth grade at Delta Middle School. What follows is a brief overview of our expectations with respect to curriculum and study habits. Math We have developed a math program that focuses on helping students make sense of mathematics in meaningful ways.
Number sense is the driving force of our program.
It is imperative that our children have mastered the basic facts of addition, subtraction. multiplication, and division, by the time they become fifth graders. We believe that students who develop strong number sense will become more proficient with computation and more powerful as problem solvers. Spelling Spelling grades will be based on spelling tests, workbook exercises, dictation, and spelling on written homework assignments. Spelling books must come home every Friday, so that students can study their spelling words and prepare for the upcoming pretest. Students will be required to complete a minimum of two SRA cards per week.