Originally Posted by Jodi C
my son will go into a grade 5 homeroom (school is 5-8), but take grade 6 math class and maybe ELA too. This is to give him time to adjust to pace and organization to middle school.

We have found this kind of "onramp" (via subject acceleration) very helpful when you get to boundaries between schools-- by the time my DS got to middle school, he thought he owned the place because he'd already been doing it the year before.

Sounds like a great plan.