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Second Grade Mrs. Mooney's class uses the Jacob Ladder's strategies to enhance their Literacy instruction. The instructional strategies allow students to think at more deep and complex levels about what they read. For example, the class read several of Aesop's Fables and studied imagery as it related to the genre. The students then illustrated how imagery was used to enhance the meaning of the story.
Third Grade TD Third Graders will focus on the universal concept of Cycles this year. Mrs. Deegan works with a class to apply the generalizations to their reading. In order to help students build their understanding of the concept, they worked on a Taba Concept Development Lesson. A few pictures of their work are below. Third Grade TD Students worked on Jacob's Ladder: A World of Resources Fourth Grade TD Fourth grade is working on multiplication, including, the study of ancient forms of solving problems. The first lessons cover Napier Bones. Below, Mr. Neil Deegan, a collaborative teacher, demonstrate the process in the pictures below. All of the TD fourth grade math classes worked on Ancient Multiplication systems, including: Egyptian, Russian, and Napier's Bones. Fifth Grade TD
Fifth grade students are studying Caesar's English, a vocabulary-building program based on Latin Stems. Students work on analogies, synonyms, antonyms, and excerpts from classic texts to build their vocabulary and learn the stems that shape over 88,000 words in the English language. As students build a strong academic vocabulary they practice critical thinking skills as well as develop the necessary language of the disciplines of advanced study. Comments are closed.
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