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Preparing Students for a Successful Transition to 5th Grade: Middle School Strategies

This guide outlines comprehensive strategies to help students transition smoothly into 5th grade and middle school. It addresses the challenges students face, such as adjusting to a larger school environment, managing class-switching, and meeting diverse teacher expectations. Key initiatives include practice in hallway navigation, differentiated instruction in core subjects, and innovative workshops focused on math and writing. Emphasis is placed on engagement through mini-society projects, daily reading practices, and hands-on science kits. Together, these efforts aim to enhance organizational skills, comprehension, and overall academic readiness.

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Preparing Students for a Successful Transition to 5th Grade: Middle School Strategies

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  1. Welcome to 5th Grade!!

  2. Middle School Preparation Feedback: • Easy transition due to size of school • Students not prepared for switching • classes • Students find difficulty with • organizational skills • Students not prepared for various • expectations of several teachers

  3. Plans to Address Needs: • Practice of passing in hallways • Provide safe manner for students to adjust • Provide consequences when expectations not met • Mini-Society/Bi-Weekly Incentive

  4. Math • FIVE+ • Workshop Model • COMMON CORE • RATIOS & PROPORTIONAL RELATIONSHIPS • THE NUMBER SYSTEM • EXPRESSIONS & EQUATIONS • GEOMETRY • STATISTICS & PROBABILITY • FIVE • Workshop Model • COMMON CORE • OPERATIONS & ALGEBRAIC THINKING • NUMBER & OPERATIONS IN BASE 10 • NUMBER & OPERATIONS – FRACTIONS • MEASUREMENT & DATA • GEOMETRY Math Expressions -Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

  5. Math • 8 Mathematical Practices • Make sense of problems and persevere in solving them. • Reason abstractly and quantitatively • Construct viable arguments and critique the reasoning of others. • Model with mathematics • Use appropriate tools strategically • Attend to precision • Look for and make use of structure • Look for and express regularity in repeated reasoning

  6. Reader’s Workshop • DAILY 5 • Management • Read to Self • Buddy Read • Listen to Reading • Write About Reading • Word Work • CAFÉ • - Self-selected books at level • - Skills • Comprehension • Accuracy • Fluency • Expanding Vocabulary

  7. A Developmental Approach to Spelling, Vocabulary and Phonic Instruction Assessment done 1-2 times per year Developmental stages: emergent, letter name, within word, syllables & affixes, derivational. Instruction differentiated for each student No longer memorizing word lists, but learning the patterns which make up words Based on brain research: manipulation of the word cards helps to solidify the learning of patterns and meaning of words (the brain is pattern seeking) Word Study will take place during our Reading Block-great benefits for all students. Words Their Way

  8. Writing • All Boy/All Girl Writing Classes • Daily Sessions • Writer’s Workshop • 6+1 Writing Traits -Poetry/Autobiography -Opinion Pieces -Narratives -Documentary (Research Project)

  9. Social Studies • Maps/globes and geography • American Indians and their land • European explorations and settlements • Facing Slavery • Colonial Williamsburg • Declaration of Independence • American Revolution • Constitution / Bill of Rights • Economics (Mini-Society) • Online book and Online test

  10. SCIENCE • Kit 1: Mixtures and Solutions • Students investigate basic concepts of chemistry – • properties of mixtures and solutions, • dissolving a solid in a solvent, • concentration and saturation of a solution, • evidence of chemical reaction, evaporation, and crystal formation • Students gain experience with laboratory tools and techniques.

  11. SCIENCE • Kit 2: Sun, Moon & Earth • Explore the motion of the universe • Essential Questions

  12. SCIENCE • Kit 3: Living Systems • Explore the transport systems in multi-cellular organisms. • Essential Questions • What are the basic needs of all cells? • How are materials transported to cells in multi-cellular organisms? • What are the structures and functions of the circulatory, respiratory, digestive and excretory systems in humans?

  13. Standards Based Grading Academic Quality Descriptors

  14. Camp Copneconic • Camp Dates: January 22-24 • There will be a camp meeting later this year with all the details

  15. Need More Information… Mrs. Delgado – ld02bps@birmingham.k12.mi.us Mr. Haines – gh04bps@birmingham.k12.mi.us Mrs. Peters – sp06bps@birmingham.k12.mi.us Mr. Pez– jp21bps@birmingham.k12.mi.us

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