As children develop an awareness of letters, and the sounds they make, they also have to learn how to form letters smoothly and automatically, writing from the top of the Read More >>
India
Students in Kindergarten and First Grade have been learning about the culture of India through the use of the book Count Your Way Through India by Jim Haskins. We started Read More >>
Grasslands
Our youngest students continue their study of biomes. In December we moved our focus from the rain forest to grasslands. We listened to books and learned how grasslands are very different to rain Read More >>
Folktales Retold
Folktales Retold is a class in which the kindergarten and first grade students meet two times a week during Silent Reading time to listen to picture books of folktales. We Read More >>
Printing
The youngest group of students are participating in a printing class. They are working their way through the alphabet learning how to form all the capital letters correctly. They have Read More >>
Blend-it
Our youngest students spent the first 6 weeks of school playing many games where they worked on identifying the sounds of letters in our alphabet. After giving them all a Read More >>
Picture stretch
Four of our youngest students started a class in late October where they are using pictures to help them identify sounds in the words. For the activity each child draws Read More >>
Rain Forest
The eleven youngest students started the year learning about the Rain Forest. New concepts and vocabulary were introduced as they listened to and discussed the content of many books on Read More >>
Explorers
Students in grades K-2 started a social students unit this fall on explorers. Students were first asked to explain the difference between an Explorer and Exploring and came up with statements such as: Read More >>
Flying Airplanes!
How do airplanes fly? That is a question that our younger students (K-2) explored during Investigations. They made paper airplanes and tested them to see how far they could fly. Read More >>