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The Lower School, grades 2 through 5, focuses
on developing a strong academic base, critical-thinking
skills, and making connections across subject areas.
At the same time, we instill the habits of self-discipline,
respect for others, and collaboration.
We teach to each child's strengths in a genuinely
warm, nurturing, and inclusive atmosphere.
Distinctions of your child's Lower School experience:
- We integrate the curriculum across all subject areas
in an accelerated academic program. Students benefit
from a phonics-based reading program, challenging
and appropriately paced math classes, a Core Curriculum-based
social studies program, and "hands-on" science
labs.
- Each grade is divided into three homerooms, with
students grouped by ability in language arts and math.
The benefits to students: Our small classes give teachers
the chance to know their children as individuals and
the flexibility to place them where they can learn
best.
- Every day holds something new for students as they
move through their busy schedule. In language arts,
students become better readers, writers, and communicators.
Children choose to pursue either French or Spanish for their Lower School years of exposure to both
languages. Everyone learns to communicate in the
language of computers. In social studies, students
explore ancient and modern cultures and geography.
Weekly science labs reinforce class studies ranging
from the solar system to plants to animals and human
body systems. Math not only builds basic skills in addition, subtraction, multiplication, and division, but enables students to develop their abilities as problem solvers and critical thinkers. The visual arts, and performing arts,
and physical education programs add important dimensions to
each child's day.
- Parents are partners in the process via regular
student progress reports, trimester report cards and
comments, and three parent-teacher conferences each
year.
- Extended Day opportunities accommodate working parents'
needs between 7:30 a.m. and 6:00 p.m. Highlights include
outdoor play, homework, enrichment programs, crafts, and games.
The cumulative results of the Lower School
years: In this nurturing environment, students
gain confidence, self-esteem, and an appreciation for
community living. Each child is known by everyone, and
they look out for one another. Over time, the remarkable
camaraderie they develop extends beyond homerooms to
the larger school community.
Please click here
to view our Academic Program.
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