Help Your 5th Grade Student Get Organized for 2nd Semester – Now!
ByWhy is the 2nd semester of 5th grade such and important time in a child’s development? The big jump is coming! That leap from the cozy classroom of the 5th grade will seem like a distant memory when your chld hits the hallways of the new middle school. The noise, the confusion, the complexity. While most of today’s middle schools put a valiant effort into smoothing the way for 6th graders, it is often at the beginning of this transition grade that any issues a child has with organizational skills will quickly come screaming to the forefront.
As your student goes through the second half of the 5th grade year it is a pivotal point in the level of self confidence s/he will have going into the new environment next year. If s/he can perform well and consistently, doing things is a relatively organized way, there will be a foundation of both confidence and skills to fall back on in the new middle school environment.
This is a critical time to foster the development of habits of operating in an organized manner. Do you know where your books are? Did you turn in the book report on time? Did you tell Mom about the posterboard you need for tomorrow before or after dinner? (This would be the same posterboard the teacher told you to get 3 days ago.) If you would like some help organizing the papers that have to go back and forth to school each day start looking for a system that will automate and organize the papers for the student. One such system is the Pace-It Instant Organizer Notebook System.
