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Lyle the Crocodile

This fall, students in Kindergarten and First Grade are exploring the fun of Bernard Waber’s loveable crocodile, Lyle. Each Friday we read a Lyle book and then draw and write Read More >>

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Copy Word

  Our kindergartner and a few of the first grader students participate in a once a week class called Copy Word.  During this class, students are working on their fine motor Read More >>

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Twister on Tuesday

A small group of students read Twister on Tuesday, a Magic Tree House book about twisters. The  book club focused reading skills such as comprehension, compare and contrast, summarizing, predictions, moods Read More >>

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Pick A Poet

The eldest students were given an assignment that involved self-selecting three poets. After browsing through collections of poetry by Maya Angelou, Langston Hughes, Robert Frost, Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Edward Lear, Read More >>

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Dictation Class

In our dictation class this year students have been working with spelling patterns for long and short vowel sounds in one-syllable words. For example, the short vowel sound is typically Read More >>

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Fudge Book Club

Students who participated in the Fudge Book Club read Tales of a Fourth Grade Nothing, by Judy Blume. This is the first in a series of books featuring Fudge, a Read More >>

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All About Books

This unit was started by our student teacher this past fall.  After she left, we slowly have been finishing up what she started.  Each student picked a topic that they Read More >>

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Visual Thinking Strategies (VTS)

Visual Thinking Strategies provides for open-ended discussions of visual art, increasing students’ critical thinking, language, and literacy skills along the way. We had two groups using VTS this year, one Read More >>

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Printing Class All Year

At the start of the school year, children in kindergarten worked on writing upper case letters of the alphabet.   We have now moved on to lower case letters! During each Read More >>