Fifth Grade, Class Bayne

Fifth Grade Students delve deeply into ancient cultures, living intimately with stories of India, Persia, Babylon, Egypt and Greece. Each creation story brings a different twist. New and familiar perspectives are compared in how these cultures approached the fundamental questions of life. Closer to home, studying North American geography gives an opportunity to delve into how native cultures worked with their environments and how cultures and environments connect us across borders.

The study of botany, mixing poetic and artistic explorations of the plant world with scientific terminology and systems of identification, rounds out a curriculum that embraces the abundant energy of this age while honoring both their powerful imaginations and dawning analytical capacities.