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fifth grade curriculum
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Charlie Boswell has been teaching at TGS since 1996.
The fifth grade curriculum emphasizes academic achievement as well as social and emotional development. Students participate in group activities throughout the year. They are taught through experiential learning to engage their peers in planning, problem solving, and games.
The school year begins with an overnight camping trip where the focus of the activities is to promote positive social dynamics. This experience is followed by a day long ropes course challenge. Instructors from the High Five Adventure Learning Center in Brattleboro, Vermont create an environment that challenges each individual and fosters a constructive group problem-solving environment.
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Students build wooden cubes and bridges in their investigation of the inherent strength in truss designs. They also build gravity and motor driven vehicles in lessons about friction, momentum, acceleration, and drive ratios
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A study of Shakespeare leads to a performance, last year “Romeo and Juliet” in conjunction with the second grade.
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Greek history and the dynamics of constructing a model temple makes ancient history come alive.
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An interdisciplinary and thematic approach to learning encourages students to discover how areas of knowledge interrelate. Written expression, both critical and creative, is emphasized and incorporated in a variety of interdisciplinary projects