Fifth Grade Guidance

Every year we host the annual 5th Grade Parent Dinner.  This dinner is a great way to help you and your child feel more comfortable about the new expectations in moving into the middle school program.

Fifth Grade students now have the opportunity to be inducted into our Middle School Junior Beta Club.  This is an honor and an exciting time for our students.  To prepare our fifth grade students for this event, I spend a day in each of the fifth grade classrooms talking with them about how to calculate a Grade Performance Average (GPA).  We look at several report cards and average the GPA for each sample report card.  We also discuss how important the GPA will be as they begin high school in a few years and how important the study habits and work they are doing now will impact those early years in high school.  It's always a fun and informative time and the children ask very thoughtful and challenging questions.

In April, we host our annual Mother–Daughter Tea.  The date will be set for this soon.  Please plan to attend this event if you have a daughter in the fifth grade.  This is a great time for mothers and daughters to come together and talk about the way our bodies change and grow in adolescence.

One area of concern that always appears with students as early as third grade, and continuing through middle school, is conflict between friends.  I am always available to help you and your students with friend concerns.  Our goal when working with students in this area is to strive to teach them to handle relationships as we are instructed in the scriptures from Romans 12:10-21:

Be devoted to one another in brotherly love. Honor one another above yourselves. Never be lacking in zeal, but keep your spiritual fervor, serving the Lord.  Be joyful in hope, patient in affliction, faithful in prayer.  Share with God's people who are in need.  Practice hospitality.  Bless those who persecute you; bless and do not curse.  Rejoice with those who rejoice; mourn with those who mourn.  Live in harmony with one another.  Do not be proud, but be willing to associate with people of low position.  Do not be conceited.  Do not repay anyone evil for evil.  Be careful to do what is right in the eyes of everybody.  If it is possible, as far as it depends on you, live at peace with everyone.  Do not take revenge, my friends, but leave room for God's wrath, for it is written: "It is mine to avenge; I will repay," says the Lord.  On the contrary; "If your enemy is hungry, feed him; if he is thirsty, give him something to drink.  In doing this, you will heap burning coals on his head." Do not be overcome by evil, but overcome evil with good.