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Math Word Problems

Learning to read word problems for young children has many aspects. We began with the four children by having them recognize possible, impossible or incorrect number sentences such as:  ? Read More >>

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Writing Workshop

Children in Kindergarten and First Grade participated in a writing class this spring where they “played” with words and pictures.  They worked on rhyming, fact & opinion and writing descriptive Read More >>

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Lyle the Crocodile

Students in kindergarten and first grade have been listening to stories by Bernard Wabber about Lyle the Crocodile.  As we read these stories, we discuss vocabulary such as: useful, desperately, Read More >>

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Magnets

Over the last few months, all of the kindergarten and first graders have been in a magnet class during Investigations that was a total of five classes. The groups were Read More >>

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Ten Blue Dots

Some of the youngest students listened to the book Ten Black Dots by Donald Crews. After listening to the book, counting dots and discussing each page, students worked hard on making their Read More >>

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Magnets

Over the last few months, all of the kindergarten and first graders have been in a magnet class during Investigations that was a total of five classes. The groups were Read More >>

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Geometry

During the fall of 2020 our youngest students all studied shapes! Throughout their unit of study, they would be taking a close look at 12 different shapes, comparing some of Read More >>

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Systemic Racism

Our children, our students, live in a world that has developed all kinds of media and ways to transmit information, disinformation, ideas, and images.  They hear the media, adults, other Read More >>

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Read-Aloud at Reading Time

Once a week our youngest students gather together for their own read-aloud during the school-wide reading time. Some of them are just beginning to learn to read. Others have developed Read More >>

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Animal Classification

This year we were very fortunate to get a donation of a program called ZOO TO YOU which brings the zoo animals and personnel to our school every other month Read More >>