Welcome to Grade 5 a year where building a community of learners is at the heart of everything. Students will continue to build skills such as teamwork, respect, listening and patience in their academics and social interactions with each other. Furthermore, emphasis will be placed on strengthening and maintaining positive relationships between student and teacher. Lastly, learning, growing in, and celebrating the Catholic faith will play a large role in this year’s Christian Education program with many opportunities for students to make deep reflections, connections, and commitment to being stewards and shepherds of Jesus Christ.
This year in Grade 5 students will learn what it means to be effective readers and writers. They will learn how to use reading skills such as connecting, questioning, visualizing, inferring and transforming, and apply them in their reading. Doing so will enable them to interact with texts in a more engaging and critical way. For writing, students will focus on how to create a text from beginning to end. They will first learn the traits that make effective writing such as ideas and content, word choice, organization, voice, fluency and presentation. Students will be presented with numerous opportunities to practice their writing skills while incorporating the writing cycle of prewriting, research, editing, draft, and proofreading.
At OLM, students are considered unique gifts of God. In Grade 5 students will continue to follow the prescribed Christian Education program with a focus on transforming what is taught into real life application and connections. Students will do this by pondering deep questions and making reflections. This year will also see an emphasis on having students apply their faith in outreach initiatives both in the parish and beyond. Students will be challenged to become young stewards of Jesus Christ.
Learning at OLM prepares and gives students important life skills that they can take with them into the world. OLM challenges students to become leaders, initiators, resilient, advocates for what is right, risk takers, and loving stewards. In Grade 5, students will continue to grow in these areas while also learning to be more independent and care for themselves in spirit, mind and body. Grade 5 will be a year of more growth in preparation for the final years of elementary school.