At what grade levels do you departmentalize in the Elementary? What subjects do you departmentalize at each grade level?

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Tanya---At Corral Drive we departmentalize in 4th and 5th grades for math, science, and social studies. I have 3 teachers per grade level--so it works out perfectly. Nancy

At Lincoln Elementary in Yankton we departmentalize at the 5th grade level. Each of the three home room teachers teaches their own language arts and their specific subject before students go to lunch at 12:15 p.m. After their noon lunch and their recess break, which is 1:00 p.m., the students do independent reading for 15 minutes and then go to different classrooms for math, science or social studies. Consequently, they have only two specials in the p.m.

Paul Struck

At Tri-Valley we begin to departmentalize in the 3rd and 4th grades for social studies, science and creative writing. In the 5th and 6th grades we departmentalize for math, social studies and science.

Micy Highstreet

In Beresford we departmentalize in 5th and 6th grade. We are planning to move our 6th grade into a middle school next year and so we will only have 5th grade that will departmentalize. We have tried to use a middle school philosophy with our 5th/6th grades so that the departmentalized approach is not mini-high school in nature. We have also departmentalized math and reading in fourth grade when the makeup of our staff merited it being done that way.

4th grade - science and social studies

5th and 6th - science, social studies, math and reading

We departmentalize grades 5 and 6. The subjects that we do are Language arts, Social Studies, Science, and Reading.

Britton-Hecla

We departmentalize in grades 4,5 and 6. We switch rooms/teachers for Science and Social Studies only.

we departmentalize 4-6 and have done it for all subjects. We have also had all teachers teach their home room reading and then had departmentalization for all other subjects.

We have departmentalized starting in the 3rd grade for Science, Social Studies, Art and Creative Writing. However I am encouraging my teachers to move to self contained classrooms. Our 4th grade is now totally self contained and it is working very well.

Piedmont/Stagebarn begins departmentalization at the 5th grade with Math, Reading, English, Social Studies, and Science. Home room teachers teach Spelling...

Dan Olson

At SES we are K-4. In 4th grade I have 5 sections and four of the rooms departmentalize, two work together and the other two work together. They

split- one teaches Reading, LA and Science or Social Studies while the other teaches Math, Spelling, Writing and Science or Social Studies. My fifth class is self contained.

Hope this helps.

Norman Graham
Sturgis Elementary School

3rd Grade: One teacher teaches all the math for both sections and the other teacher teaches science and social studies on alternate days.

4th and 5th grade: One teacher teaches science and one social studies.

Karn Barth
Garretson Elementary Principal
(605)594-3453
Karn.Barth@k12.sd.us

Tanja Pedersen

Chester doesn't departmentalize in the elementary

We departmentalize at the 5th grade

Thanks,

Dan Olson

We departmentalize grades 5 and 6 with Science, Social Studies, Language Arts, and Reading. We have done this for many years and it works well for us.

CeCe Soucy
Immaculate Conception School
Watertown

Rhonda Gross