After identification in first grade, the students begin exploring who they are and think about where their interests lie. One such project that lends itself to this exploration is having students create an autobiography block discovering and learning about their individual interests. In conjunction with this project, students learn to extend their creative and critical thinking skills through projects exploring tangrams and three dimensional shapes. In second grade, the students focus on creating an autobiography collage to learn and discover more about themselves and their interests. Our creative and critical thinking domain combines interests in the math and science areas through units in tessellation and basic concepts of physics.
Students conduct scientific experiments with objects and toys to record and graph their findings.
To extend their language abilities as well as creative and critical thinking skills in second grade, the students write and illustrate a hard covered book. The students focus on story elements and how to create pages that are inviting to the reader. In third grade, students focus on thinking skills through completing a unit that encourages them to become better thinkers. Taking the learner from a concrete thinker to a more abstract thinker is also an objective at this level. To begin the year, students are asked to design a collage with items from their natural environment that relate to their personal characteristics and attributes.