Strong emphasis is placed on student responsibility and self-discipline to develop organizational skills. Language arts includes reading and writing. The Writing Process is stressed and includes the instruction of grammar and spelling. Students are skill grouped for reading to provide the best opportunities for the children to progress. Math instruction includes both Mathland activities and more traditional approaches to math.
Social studies revolves around the study of Ohio from prehistoric times to the present.
The fifth grade is divided into two parallel teams of two classes each. All four teachers provide language arts instruction for their home base in spelling, English, and the eleven forms of writing evaluated on the Ohio Sixth Grade Proficiency Test. The four teachers plan as a fifth grade team. Students in both teams have weekly homework assignments in spelling and math, as well as practice in studying for and taking tests in content areas. Social studies covers the time of the first Americans through the New World explorers, colonization, the Revolutionary War and the development of U.S. government, and western expansion through the Civil War.