Primary Class

2020-21 Primary Class
"The Awesome Turquoise Cats"

The primary class is our kindergarten-1st grade class. We are a multi-age classroom that targets student needs through individual goal-setting and differentiated education in STEAM and literacy disciplines as well as social development. All students also take Nature Skills, Music + Theater, Art, and a choice of two electives.

About our day

Monday - Thursday Schedule
8:30 Morning Meeting with the whole school
8:35 Favorite of the weekend/Animal Stewardship/Show & Tell/Yoga
9:00 Literacy
10:00 Snack
10:20 Read aloud
10:30 Rainbow Centers/Library Time
12:00 Lunch and Games
1:00 Science/Social Studies/Music + Theater/Nature Skills
2:00 Classroom Jobs
2:10 Community Stewardship
2:30 Nature Literacy
3:20 Harvest Circle

Friday Schedule
8:30 Peace Circle focusing on one of the Seven Dimensions of Human Greatness
9:00 1st Elective (Pottery/Logic & Debate/Weaving/Squishies/Apothecary)
10:00 Snack
10:30 2nd Elective (Yearbook/Makerspace/Fiber Crafting/Sports/Cooking/Detective)
11:30 Lunch
12:10 Nature Literacy
1:00 Art
2:00 School Hive
2:50 Community Stewardship
3:20 Harvest Circle

STEAM

STEAM is:
Science
Technology
Engineering
Art
Math

Literacy

Using The Daily 5 method to cultivate young readers. Every day, students:
1) read to themselves
2) read to someone else
3) listen to reading
4) write
5) word work

Human Greatness

We are Educating for Human Greatness by teaching students to mindfully consider...
Identity
Inquiry
Interaction
Imagination
Intuition
Initiative
Integrity

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