Students write often. Public speaking is encouraged through the annual musical, Town Meetings, poetry recitals, and oral reports. Written work is an important feature of social studies and science classes, not only language arts classes. The mathematics curriculum begins with quantifying actual objects. They learn number sense, place value, fractions and decimals, estimation, probability, graphing, geometry and measurement, patterns, and problem solving.
Cooperative work is featured here as in other disciplines.
Youngsters learn that they can solve a problem in more than one way. Technology is important, and students use calculators and the computer. The academic year is divided into four marking periods. The report cards have extensive written evaluations. Letter grades begin in fourth grade.