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Our elementary experience provides students with the building blocks to succeed. We work to provide a guaranteed and viable curriculum that meets the diverse needs of our students at all grade levels. This student-centered learning experience is rich in literacy and offers a well-rounded elementary education for our PreK through fourth grade learners.
We offer literacy instruction rooted in the Science of Reading for teaching reading and writing skills in our elementary classrooms. During the literacy block, it is common for elementary teachers to devote one and a half to three hours each day to literacy instruction. The individual parts of the literacy block include explicit instruction in phonics, phoememic awareness, vocabulary and word study, reading and writing skill development with conferencing with teachers to improve reading and writing skills. This approach to reading and writing provides our teachers with the time to hone in the precise skills and knowledge needed for each student and prescribe strategies to improve the students' reading and writing. Science classes offer our students exploration of scientific concepts through conducting various experiments to understand plants, animals and physical sciences. Our social studies classes provide our students opportunities to learn how to become responsible citizens in our communities.
In our elementary schools, we strive to meet the diverse needs of the whole child and offer a curricula that includes instruction by licensed professionals in the regular classroom as well as in our World Explorers, Art, Music, Physical Education and Library/Information and Technology Literacy Skills. STEAM (Science, Technology, Engineering, Art and Mathematics) learning tools are integrated throughout the curricula. World Explorers, music and art courses offer students opportunity to explore world languages, cultures and artistic expression. Our Puma Pounce Response to Intervention period offers teachers the opportunity to provide all of our students with what they need to be successful including enrichment and interventions to support students with high academic abilities and students who struggle with specific areas of the curriculum without any new material introduced.
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