About Fifth Grade

Welcome to the 5th Grade Team at P.S. 52.

    The team consists of Ms. Kolm, Mrs. Porter, Mrs. Roventini, Mr. Ungar, Ms. Haynes, and Mr. Sideli.  Combined our team has about 125 years of teaching experience.  Our grade departmentalizes where students switch classes for focused instruction in mathematics and ELA.  This model allows our students to gain a Middle School experience and begin learning how to transition from one class to another. 

    The use of technology during the pandemic has become a huge part of our teaching and learning.  The team uses many various programs such as MyOn library, Imagine Learning, BrainPop, Learning Ally, Epic!, Zearn, and Imagine Math.  Not to mention other apps/programs used to further engage students and enhance instruction such as FlipGrid, Jam Board and others. 

    Our gifted and talented class engages yearly in enrichment activities and hopefully when in person learning begins again will resume activities such as a six-week program at the Environmental Center studying hydroponics/aquaponics.  In addition to the rigorous focus placed on academics in the grade, we are focused on the whole child, and with the support of the rest of the school community the students are exposed to a wide range of activities to help make them not only well rounded learners but well-rounded young adults.