Our students receive instruction in guided reading, writers' workshop, math, and integrated social studies and science daily. Literacy activities include reading novels aloud daily, weekly library visits, reading books in and out of the classroom and receiving one hour of guided reading per day.
Students write in their dialogue journals every day in class or for homework.
Students contribute to the team newsletter by submitting experience stories, poems, and interviews with staff. In math, the students begin to learn to compute by using manipulatives. Each student tries to achieve the ambitious goal of being able to compute math problems mentally by the time he or she leaves the grades 3,4, and 5 team. Students practice a variety of math skills by participating in hands-on activities. They also learn to budget by participating in fund-raising projects, selling snacks and drinks.