What does it mean if a child is placed in a 4/5 grade combo class?

Question

Are the 4th graders more advanced and the 5th graders less so? Thanks!

Answer 1

NO! It means the school does not have enough students (or money or both) to assign two teachers to two separate classes.

Answer 2

I grew up in a small town where there wasn't a lot of money and teachers so they would often combined the classes. I was a 2nd grader in a 2/3 and a 4th grader in a 4/5 split. The child will work on basic 5th grade level, but in a way that is easy for the 4th grader to understand. So yes the 4th grader is more advanced and the 5th graders are children that need a little more time to understand the lesson. It's not that the 5th grader is stupid, its just that its easier for them to learn in a different way, a simpler way. Does that help?

Answer 3

I was in a 4/5 combo as a fifth grader. It wasn't as if only one grade got all the attention. In our class there were only 13 fifth graders out of 30 students. We also had a student teacher trading off with the teacher so all the students had a teacher availible to them. Son't worry because it is not a bad thing for either grade. The students just get a little more time to spend on getting work done.

Answer 4

What this generally means is that the there are not enough students to make a full 4 or 5 grade class so they make what is called a composite class of both grades. When the students are chosen for these classes it does not necessarily mean they are more intelligent than those in a straight class, but they are able to work better independantly and not need alot of one on one attention from the teacher, the teacher still has to teach both grade 4 and 5 work to the respective students. Where a students shows they are capable, then the higher grade work can be offered to that student, it can be beneficial.

Answer 5

Sorry dlwelnel, he did no longer have a point 5, he had point a million - 4 yet that is undesirable sufficient. See Timmyt's answer for a good description of the grading gadget for indecent pictures of youngsters. a million is bare photos - 4 is sexual penetration, so in different words he has been staring at photos of adults raping little ones. the only element worse than a 4 is a 5 that's beastiality or sadism related to little ones. Any sexual ideas or strikes in the direction of little ones is disgusting and unwell. they'd desire to deliver lower back putting for 'human beings' like this.

Answer 6

A certain child might be able to do 4th grade math but 5th grade reading, for example. The class is split in half for each subject - one half is doing 4th grade work and the other half is doing 5th grade work. This type of class allows them to work at their level in each subject. My kids' entire elementary school is set up that way.

Answer 7

I was in a class like this two years ago, and the one you're thinking of might be different... but in my experience, it was 4th/5th graders learning different things from the same teacher, same room. We had some combined topics, but it was mostly seperated.

Answer 8

Usually it means the fourth graders are able to learn fast and can benefit from their older classmates' experience and the fifth graders can finish their work fast enough to spend time with the younger ones. Sometimes this is done in bilingual classes.

Answer 9

This varies a lot from school to school. In our school, we sometimes have too many kids for one class, but not quite enough for a second class at the same grade level. We try to have a mixture of ability levels in each grade, although we try to avoid severe needs students in the combo classes, when practical.
When I first began teaching, far too many years ago, I had a combination 4,5,6,7,8 class in one of those one room schools. We let each student progress at different paces in reading, math, and written language , but grouped kids for PE,Art, Music,Social Studies, Science. Ability had nothing to do with being in that combo class, just numbers.

Answer 10

my son was in a grade 2/3 split class, and i understood it to be that the grade 3's didn't need as much help as the grade 2's.