Sterling students learn in a safe and caring environment with interesting activities and relevant content. The writing process is pre-writing, writing, editing, and publishing. Writing is encouraged across the curriculum. Students write for a variety of manuscripts for a variety of purposes. They produce poetry, informational reports, narrative stories, descriptive information, paragraphs, letters, journal entries, peer editing, and note taking.
Computers are available to the student to generate, edit, and publish written work.
Spelling Students use grade level appropriate word lists to enhance their vocabulary each week. Lists are used daily in the classroom. Weekly tests are given to assess knowledge of given words. Social Studies Subjects covered are climates, map and globe skills, economics, and the democratic process. Special attention is given during the fourth grade year to Missouri History which culminates with a field trip to the capitol building in Jefferson City and Runge Nature Center.