AAP - 4th and 5th
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Anonymous
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What are your 4th and 5th grade kids doing in AAP classes? Particularly interested in non center school where AAP is a pullout.
Thank you 🙏 |
Anonymous
So are you talking about Level III then? |
Anonymous
| Yep or level 4 local school options. |
Anonymous
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5th grader:
Math - integer operations and exponents Science - plate tectonics Language arts - benchmark unit 3, "The Constitution", and finishing up the unit on Hammurabi's code with a 5 paragraph essay This is a center school though. |
Anonymous
LLIV would not be a pullout. It is full time instruction, either through a self contained room or a cluster model, but they should be receiving all subjects at an advanced level. |
Anonymous
The pullout method does not work. |
Anonymous
FCPS has indicated they want to move non-center Level IV to the “pull out” model because it fits the “ I “ in their DEI initiative. |
Anonymous
+1 My DC is LIII in 4th at a high SES school. It’s a weekly, one-hour pullout that seems to focus on critical thinking exercises. There may be some math and LA differentiation within the classroom, but I think they try to obscure that from the kids. So it’s unclear what LIII is beyond that hour, if anything. In 5th, I’ll push for a better understanding of the math being offered, as I’d like my DC to have the ability to test into Algebra in 7th if appropriate for them. Other than that, I’m just letting the process handle itself. (Before people come for me, our school doesn’t have LIV. Students are still able to take the Iowa and Math 7 SOL in 6th, provided they take advanced math in 6th. This is a common path at our school.) |
Anonymous
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Our school is using the cluster method. They have added a pull out for the LIV students in order to cover the LIV material because it was not happening in the cluster model. They went to this in the third year of the program, which shows me that they are learning about the strengths and weaknesses of the model and adjusting.
No idea what they are working on now, my child is in MS but we have friends with younger kids at the school so we hear what is happening. |
Anonymous
Unfortunately, it doesn't fit the "A" in AAP. Way to make Level IV totally meaningless. |
Anonymous
| Literally the same thing as everyone else except advanced math. |
Anonymous
| We're at an AAP center school. Your DD is in 5th grade this year. It seems the biggest difference we have noticed, without being too overly involved, is that the math in 5th grade is very accelerated. The math in 4th grade was perhaps slightly accelerated. But the teacher has essentially said the 5th graders will roll into 6th grade math very soon. The completed work that has been sent home seems to reflect that. Also, there is more reading. But it's hard to have a benchmark to understand how much more reading they are doing or how accelerated it is. |
Anonymous
FCPS has not indicated this at all. They have said LL4 should be at all ES. I teach LL4. |