Morning Meeting:  
Discuss daily events and plans, favorite songs, calendar, math skills, cooperative and sight word lists, counting, patterns, and theme discussions.

Language and Reading Development:
Intensive phonetics instruction and language development through direct instruction, stories, poems, and phonetic awareness activities.

Literature based activities : Read quality literature and do activities that extend the concepts in the story such as retelling the stories in a variety of ways, acting a story out, making patterned books from the story, nature studies, art activities, etc.

Goals: Enhance oral language, build comprehension skills, increase vocabulary, correlate the reading and writing process, build question and answer skills, provide a print rich environment.

Spalding Program : Explicit phonetic instruction teaching the sound symbol relationship through a multi-sensory approach that includes seeing, saying, hearing, and writing. Correct letter formation is taught. By the end of the school year, children will be able to read and write correctly spelled sentences and paragraphs with excellent handwriting skills.

Writing : Students learn phonemic rules for manipulating and writing language.  Students work on highlighting systematic patterns of sounds, correct and inventive spelling, manipulating sounds in words, recognizing words and breaking them apart into smaller units, learning the relationship between sounds and letters and building vocabulary skills.

Goals: Encourage interest and develop competence in writing and spelling.

Learning Center Time:
Centers include: Manipulatives and Games, Blocks, Creative Arts, Science/Discovery Center, Sensory Table, Writing Center , Computers, Dramatic Play, Library, Audio Listening, and Math.

Goals: Provide opportunities for experimenting, problem solving, making choices, creativity, developing social skills, role-playing, initiating activities, and practicing skills learned.

Hands-on Math, Science, and Art Activities:
Individual and group activities focus on specific math concepts, introduce, and model independent activities as well as review math concepts.

Bridges math manipulatives, visuals and cooperative games are open-ended activities that use concrete materials which enable students to apply and extend learned math concepts.

Bridges in Mathematics further establishes math concepts through their hands on.

Math concepts include patterning, sorting, classifying, comparing, counting, writing numerals correctly, number sets, beginning addition, subtraction, representing the physical world and space with positional language, measurements and shape descriptions, indentify and count money.

Projects:  A time to work on special projects, experiments, etc., related to our literature, language arts, geography, science, math, art, ceramic pottery, gardening or conservation/environmental themes.

Outside Play Time and gardening:
We are located in a wooded setting next to Kennedy Park . We have a greenhouse and a large organic garden plot for the students to learn about and develop respect for the environment. From planting seeds to harvesting and cooking exotic vegetables, children expand their knowledge and connection to the world around them in real concrete ways. We think learning in nature's classroom donned in clothing appropriate for sunshine, rain, sleet or snow, students are afforded the opportunity to follow their natural curiosities and to learn more about the mysteries of nature along side of the academic pathway.

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