Grade 5

Daily Schedule

A sample daily schedule for a typical school day is as follows. Each teacher may have a schedule that varies slightly because of different lunch or specialist time. Please refer to the Deerwood Handbook (see link above) or visit the district website for more information about the curricumlum.

What's Happening in 5th Grade?

There are many activities that are available just to fifth graders.

Beyond the Classroom
Click here to visit special web pages in the areas of Math, Reading, and Social Studies.

Project D.A.R.E.
We have the D.A.R.E. Program in our fifth grade classes. D.A.R.E. stands for Drug Abuse Resistance Education and is unique in that it brings a uniformed police officer into the classroom. These officers have taken a special, intensive training course and work with fifth grade students once a week for 10 weeks. The officer helps the students understand laws and issues surrounding drugs, develop skills to say no to drugs and alcohol, and discusses the consequences and alternatives to these chemicals.
 
Please Note: Parents have a right to review any materials used in instruction of students, and/or request that students be excused from instruction on specific topics and/or lessons. If you wish to have more information on this, please contact your principal.

Instrumental Music
The opportunity to play a band instrument begins at the end of the fourth grade.
 
Approximately 60 students, including woodwinds, brass and percussion, make up our Deerwood Elementary Band. Students have a weekly lesson in small groups during the day. Students rehearse as a large group at school weekly.
 
Working with beginners gives us the chance to start the students on their instruments and be part of the tremendous growth that takes place that first year of playing. We work hard on developing the fundamentals of playing: tone, rhythm, correct fingering and posture, and breathing techniques. A large part of fifth grade is spent on developing good playing habits, learning how to practice correctly and building self-confidence. The District's goal is to develop within each student a lifelong enjoyment of music.

School Patrol
Fifth graders can become a school patrol member. Their primary task is to ensure a safe trip to and from school for the students of Deerwood. They may help on the bus, or as a crossing guard, or have a special assignment in school.
 
To remain in the program, a school patrol member needs to strive to be a positive role model. Inappropriate behavior at school or on the bus will lead to that student's dismissal.
 
There are a variety of field trips offered to the patrol members during the school year as a reward for their service.

Student Council Officers
The Deerwood Student Council has four officers from the fifth grade. Student council members are expected to attend each meeting. Meetings will be held one afternoon each month. An officer who will be absent for some reason will need to inform an advisor beforehand and make arrangements for someone else to take over their duties for the meeting. Officers will need to spend some time outside the regular meeting times in order to complete the tasks required.

News Team
Each morning, fifth grade students are in charge of presenting the morning announcements to all of Deerwood's students over the intercom. A few students per classroom will be selected by the classroom teacher to collect news to announce along with announcing the daily menu and other school news.