You will become aware that we regroup students frequently for instruction. There are many reasons to group children and most of the groupings are short term. In a single day the teachers responsible for your child's instruction may have decided to group according to interest, skill needed, learning style, ability, and cooperative group. This kind of instruction is quite different than what parents would have experienced as students, when grouping was based on progress through given materials. For reading instruction, we are using a literature based approach.
Personal reading is prioritized.
Those of you who have been with us know about Step Stone Press, a publishing company for our students, sponsored by our parent group. The teachers lead the writing and editing process. When the student's work is ready, parent volunteers publish their quality manuscripts. You will notice a phonetic program in grades K-3. Our spelling lists will come out of the patterns and sounds being studied each week.