Middle School Tips 6 From Kristin Fields, a fifth grade teacher at Prairie Valley Middle School in Farnhamville, Iowa: ìIn our departmentalized fifth grade, it is difficult to get make-up work from students who are not in our own homeroom. We solve this by posting a daily list of make-up work needed and student's names highlighted. They see if their name is on the list as they go into the lunchroom and to a study hall opposite recess. We rotate the study hall among the four fifth grade teachers to give each other a break.î