I taught 5th grade for four years. I hadn't planned to teach at that level but I changed my mind when I discovered I had more choices of my own for what courses I took if I got a degree in elementary teaching instead of middle levels.
I have found repeatedly that I benefit from occasional examination of child thinking and language. I enjoyed talking and explaining ideas and facts to 5th graders. They are fairly mature humans and have good and fresh minds. Over the last year or so, I ordered kid-level books on human anatomy, mindfulness, menstrual periods, death, vaginas and meditation. They are priced lower than books aimed at adults, too.
Recently, we watched the series The Bureau of Magical Things on Netflix. It is a child-level series.
This whole business reminds me of the result of reading other people's search words and phrases they used in a computer search on roughly similar topics and questions as I use in a search. Almost all search apps show such alternative terms others have used
