Upper Elementary

Through hands-on learning, your child will develop and grow in:

• Language Arts – Third grade invites students to use reading and writing as essential tools for sharing thoughts and ideas.

• Reading – Third-graders become more independent readers, reading longer texts, finding meaning, and sharing their points of view on the plot and characters.

• Writing – Students write longer, more structured, and complex pieces filled with detail and creativity, and also spend time planning, revising, and editing their texts.

• Math – Students learn concepts of multiplication, division, and decimals, using a variety of tools to understand the underlying processes so that they can explain their thinking. 

• Science – Third-graders research the physical and living world through hands-on experimentation, working in small groups to engage in dialogues and debates.

• Social Studies – Students focus on our community, as well as others around the world, studying citizenship, leaders and governments, and economic systems in different places.

Our Third Grade program is offered from 8:00am - 3pm. 

Your fourth-grade student will flourish in:

• Language Arts – Fourth-graders read with a higher level of fluency, applying their comprehension strategies to literary and expository texts and writing pieces that focus on a certain purpose or audience. 

• Reading – Students apply their reading skills to understand challenging fiction and non-fiction texts; write summaries, essays, and research papers; and orally report on topics.

• Writing – Fourth-graders spend more time engaged in writing independently, analyzing the purpose of their writing and developing pieces in all fields of knowledge using complete paragraphs, transitional sentences, and themes. 

• Math – Students use their computation skills to solve multi-step word problems that involve multi-digit numbers, extend their understanding of fractions, and analyze and explain how they solve problems. 

• Science – Fourth-graders develop their science skills as they conduct experiments, read nonfiction texts, gather data, research, and write informative or opinion pieces. 

• Social Studies – Students strengthen their reading, writing, and critical thinking skills and develop their knowledge and appreciation of American history, civics, and government.

Our Fourth Grade program is offered from 8:00am - 3pm. 

As they prepare for Middle School, they will continue to grow as a learner and leader in: 

• Language Arts – Students learn grade-level vocabulary, understand and practice the five stages of the writing process, and develop complex narratives with interesting plots and resolutions. 

• Reading – Fifth-graders read an assortment of literary and informational texts, apply knowledge from texts to make inferences, summarize and interpret information, and analyze the writer’s point of view. 

• Writing – Students create more descriptive and elaborate texts, writing narratives with events, narrators, and characters while using grammar skills to enhance communication. 

• Math – Students continue to deepen their understanding and demonstrate mastery of mathematical concepts, and they become fluent with the challenging skills needed to excel in Middle School.

• Science – Fifth-graders become more mature in their ability to expand on and describe scientific concepts, evaluating their observations and associating topics with their daily lives.

• Social Studies – Students continue their studies of civics and government, writing elaborate texts and essays, researching past and current events, and examining how current times will affect our future. 

Our Fifth Grade program is offered from 8:00am - 3pm.