Instructional Happenings Around the District

Teachers and students across the grades (K-12) are working hard and actively participating in instructional lessons in the various content areas. As we approach the mid-year point of this school year, the teachers are delving deeper into the content areas and expecting students to expand on their knowledge bases in those areas.
Some examples of such instructional moments are calendar skills in a Kindergarten class, learning math concepts in one first grade class and social studies in another. Second graders taking a reading test in one class and learning about rhyming words in another class. Third graders in one class are working on reading comprehension and in another they are working on solving math story problems. Fourth grade students are working on reading skills. In one fifth grade class, students are discussing a story they had read and are comparing and contrasting different versions of the story and in another class, they are learning about the history of people in different regions and there are sixth graders working on identifying parts of speech in another class.
Students in grades seven and eight are working on calculating distance and reading units of measure in one of the math classes and are integrating technology (powerpoint) into their course work in a history class. High school students are learning about societies and economics in their sociology class and in a science class students are participating a lab on the topic of saturated and unsaturated liquids. Students in a French class are working in groups and in a physical education class, they are playing dodge ball and working on their team skills. In the library, a teacher has a class of junior high school students working on researching a topic for a history class.
These are just some of the examples of the many engaging instructional lessons and activities that are occurring in the district. It is great to see the students engaged in learning and applying their knowledge!