Current learning: 5th Grade

August & September:

• YOU: learning more about yourself as a learner and gifted person, project is a self-portrait

• Recycling: learning about Conservation and the 3 R's, creating a presentation to share with other students at the school, school-wide recycling pick-up

• Hands On Equations--Level 2 review

• Math Project: Figure Me Out--using PEMDAS, students are writing difficult equations using various operations with answers about themselves (like birthdate, house number, etc.)

• Junior Great Books short stories The Two Brothers and Kaddo's Wall

• Creative Drawings, Critical Thinking Challenges and other whole group discussions/activities

• Creative Problem Solvers and Growth & Fixed Mindset review