At which grade did you start switching classrooms for different subjects? (principal, best)

[ChrissFL]

In the sixth grade, we had the opportunity to change the subject instead of music lessons.

[ILTXwhatnext]

When I was in fifth grade, we changed for math. Writing that, I think we must have changed for sixth grade as well. It was probably by ability. They were giving us a taste of what was to come. In junior high, we changed for all classes.

An elderly woman who grew up in France told me that when she was in school, the teachers changed classes instead of the students.

[jtab4994]

In first thru third grades, we had 3 levels of "reading groups" that met in a circle of little chairs in a corner of the classroom.

In 4th grade we began changing rooms for reading, and by 5th grade it was both reading and math.

Changing rooms for every class started in Junior High, or 7th grade.

This was public school in suburban NJ, started kindergarten in 1965 and graduated 1978.

[ccm123]

In middle school, 7th grade.

[jbgusa]

If you don't count phys ed and music, for me it was fourth grade. We had:

1. Social Studies;
2. English;
3. Math/Science.

From Fifth Grade on Math and Science were split. My Fourth Grade Math/Science teacher was also my first male teacher. This was Academic 1966/7.

Another important shift was too and from "tracking." In my fourth and fifth grades, corresponding to academic years 1966-7 and 1967-8 there was "tracking." Better students were placed separately from medium students. Lower-level students, but in general not remedial, were in a separate class. I distinctly remember that a few students were raised through the year, in one case the student starting at 4-2 and rising to 4-0 by around February. Grades 6, 7 and 8 were not tracked. They were a nightmare. I had to tolerate having chewing gum placed in my hair. Why? The student's parents were going through a divorce.

[reneeh63]

6th grade...it was a bit confusing at first but then I felt like a big kid!

[psikeyhackr]

9th, Catholic high school

[GSPNative]

Middle school, 6th grade

[brightdoglover]

Middle school, 7th & 8th grade. Those two grades were in their own school building, separate from K-6.

[mitsguy2001]

We started switching classrooms for art, music, gym, and library in kindergarten. We started switching classrooms for reading in 5th grade. Switching for everything else started in 6th grade, when we started middle school.