Kindergarten is just beginning a take home book program. Books will come home for parents to read with their children. In first grade students may participate in the Super Reader's Program. They also will start participating in Reader's Theater and using California Young Readers medal books. Emergent readers will also start reading and performing some plays.
Whole language is addressed through various reading materials.
In second grade, the students have started reading Squanto, Friend of the Pilgrims. They will also write diary entrees from Squanto's viewpoint. Third graders are working on writing, following the steps of the writing process and reviewing grammar and language skills with Mountain Language. The students are just finishing Shoeshine Girl and will be reading Witch of 4th Street, which tells the story of immigrant children living in a tenement in New York City at the turn of the century. It correlates with the third grade social studies unit on immigration.