One reading period a week is set aside for individual conferences and reporting on leisure reading. A personal journal will be kept by each student. Students will take spelling pretests on Mondays and posttests on Fridays of most weeks. The student sees how each word has a job, how words fit together to form sentences, how sentence fit together to make paragraphs, and how paragraphs fit together to make longer reports. Students should use their language skills in all subject areas.
Manuscript writing is reviewed also.
Student commitment to good handwriting is essential. Neat handwriting is expected in all written work. Daily classroom drills aid the development of these math facts and mental math strategies. Students are given opportunities to use manipulatives to learn math concepts. Daily lessons methodically review concepts learned in previous lessons.