Assignments are individualized, allowing each student to work at his or her own pace. Feed-back on lessons is immediate. Students complete the assignment, transfer the answers to a scan card, and immediately receive a report on the completed lesson. New practice lessons and tests are printed, based on the work that is completed. Classes in grades two, three, four, and five at Grant School are using Accelerated Math.
Buddies meet weekly to share books.
Older students read to, or with, younger students and assist them in taking Accelerated Reading tests. Other special activities, such as planting in the Butterfly Garden, for Reading Buddies are planned throughout the year. Each fall students in grades three through five are chosen to serve for a year as conflict managers. After extensive training on Saturdays and after school, conflict managers serve as peer mediators during recess. The conflict managers offer their service to students engaged in a playground dispute.