Fifth Grade

Fifth Grade Announcements

• 5th Grade Quiet Waters Park Trip

  Posted May 14, 2013

  The fifth grade teachers and Outdoor Education Department are pleased to announce our Spring Outdoor Education Experience for fifth grade students on Tuesday, May 28. Students will come to School as usual, but we will be walking over to Quiet Waters Park to be immersed in outdoor education initiatives and fifth grade curriculum-related activities for the day.Click for more information and permission form.

• 5th Grade Trip to Baltimore & Annapolis

  Posted May 13, 2013

  In French classes, as part of our French culture studies, students have been participating in a mini-course on French art and architecture. The fifth grade French students have been researching various chateaux, cathedrals and famous historical figures over the past several weeks. They will be presenting their projects in class. The fifth grade Workshop students have been researching and writing about various places of interest and cultural highlights in Baltimore. Click for more information and permission form.

• 5th Grade Annapolis Walk

  Posted April 26, 2013

  Final preparations are being made for our walking tour of Annapolis. Each student has researched the identity of a real person who lived in 18th century Annapolis and will present a speech during the walking tour. Click for costume information. A speaking order and map will be sent home with your child for your convenience so that you may join us for all or part of your child’s tour. Click for more information and permission form.

• Colonial Annapolis Sketch Trip

  Posted March 13, 2013

  Later this month the fifth graders will be introduced to the Colonial Annapolis research project. During this unique project, they will be discovering facts about the people whose identities they will be assigned and about the houses those people built, worked in or lived in during the Colonial and Revolutionary periods. The students will begin by examining elements of Colonial architecture. Click for more information and permission form.

• Service Drive for Haiti

  Posted November 6, 2012

  Today the fifth grade learned about a medical service trip that Key parent, Alessandro Speciale will be going on to Haiti. Sponsored by the Helping Hands Foundation of Annapolis, Dr. Speciale and a team of eleven other doctors, nurses and surgical technicians will be managing the orthopedic surgery service at Haiti Adventist Hospital in Port-au-Prince.

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• Key Robotics Visits BayWoods Senior Center

  Posted October 1, 2012

  Members of Key School’s Middle School Robotics club took a trip to Baywoods Senior Center in early September to prepare for their 2012 FIRST® LEGO® League challenge. This year’s multi-school competition, the Senior Solutions Challenge, requires teams to research aging and examine how a healthy and productive lifestyle can be maintained. The outing proved to be an excellent learning experience for Key students, who were able to talk with senior citizens in order to further understand their needs. With the information acquired from their trip to BayWoods, Robotics Club members felt better equipped to take on the Senior Solutions Challenge, where they are tasked with isolating a single need and developing a solution that enables senior citizens to enhance their mobility, remain connected to their communities, or provide a means to stay healthy and fit. Members of the Robotics Club are now eagerly cultivating their ideas, which they will continue to develop and ultimately present at Baywoods in mid-November to gather feedback and determine which ideas resonate most with the residents.

• After School Chess Club Takes Second Place at Invitational Tourney

  Posted May 1, 2012

  Congratulations to all members of Key’s After School Chess Club, comprising eight second through fifth grade students, for winning second place at the Broadneck Elementary Invitational Chess Tournament. Eight local elementary schools took part in the three-round tournament. Key’s team comprised fifth graders Tim Duckett, Racheal Fisher and Eden Valdivieso; fourth graders Luca Barranco, Sam Fisher and Kalden Namgyal; third grader Carter Janney; and second grader Christopher Zomber.

• Key's Middle School Supports "Giving Back"

  Posted January 3, 2012

  Middle Schoolers once again supported the Giving Back organization in its annual “Holiday Help for the Homeless Project” by earning money to fund “Giving Back” backpacks for local homeless men, women and children. Click to read coverage about the effort in The Capital Gazette.

• Orfeo Alliance Artist-in-Residence Gabriela Lena Frank Visits Key

  Posted December 7, 2011

  Key fifth graders enjoyed working with composer and Latin Grammy Award winner Gabriela Lena Frank in mid-November as they completed work on the dramatization of three myths written by Key’s ninth graders. Click here to read an article about her visit, published on Greater Annapolis Patch.

• Annapolis Symphony Orchestra Composer-in-Residence Visits Key

  Posted October 3, 2011

  As part of the Orfeo Alliance, a partnership between The Key School and the Annapolis Symphony Orchestra (ASO), composer and pianist Gabriela Lena Frank spent a week at Key in September as the Orfeo Artist-in-Residence. Ms. Frank worked with all fifth grade students, discussing the elements of music and the process of composing. Sharing her personal experience as a hearing-impaired musician, she engaged the students in conversations about what it means to “feel” the music.