Class Overview
Our fifth graders enjoy many exciting activities and topics at DESI. we have the standard Language Arts, Math, Science, and Social ( Virginia Studies) Studies. Within Language Arts we cover composition writing, spelling, grammar and reading skills. Each day we have 2 hours of Language Arts scheduled, and an hour of math. Resources are rotated in at lkeast once a week: Movement Education, Science Lab, Music, Art/ Projects, and Library. Math is slotted for an hour a day, and Science as well as Virginia Studies are 30 to 40 minutes a day , depending on DARE and other activities. We have the students grouped in some classes according to ability and also homogenously placed in others.