5th grade is all about applying everything that has been learned in elementary school, while preparing for middle school. We teach our students the skills to excel both academically and emotionally. The highlight of the year is when the students get to practice these skills by participating in Young Ameritowne. While there, they experience what it’s like to have a job and run their own town!

In social studies, we learn about explorers, colonies, the Revolutionary War, and American Government. In science, students participate in dissections, build a circuit, perform experiments, and learn about space, magnets, and electricity. In literacy, the students work on improving their writing by using a variety of writer’s crafts, and they read a wide array of genres both related to and independent from topics covered in the content areas of science and social studies. Math offers students opportunities to analyze data and to apply multiplication and division in multi-step problems that incorporate mathematical reasoning and expository writing.

In addition, 5th graders travel to Powell Middle School to learn about the middle school experience. The 5th grade “health talk” also takes place to help kids understand about their changing bodies.

Fifth graders at Twain are provided many opportunities to display their greater sense of personal responsibility and to practice self advocacy skills that are critical to success in middle school and beyond.