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The Intermediate School provides students with a greater level of academic
challenge, but like its primary school counterpart, recognizes student learning
differences and incorporates these concerns into program design and delivery.
Language Arts instruction continues to focus on the development of listening and
speaking skills, reading and appreciation of fiction, poetry, prose, and
wordplay, creative and composition writing, spelling, and handwriting. Our
language arts program offers students an orderly, developmental approach to
acquiring skills for practical and creative expression.
Elementary students attend Art, Music, Physical Education, and Computer classes.
Instruction in these classes is offered by teachers certified as subject area
specialists. Students who qualify as 'divergent thinkers' may benefit from
participation in the "Exploring Student Potential" program which brings together
curricular topics and creativity.
The Mathematics program continues with topics in arithmetic operations and
relations. Students receive a balanced, integrated mathematics program that
includes continual development of whole number concepts, whole number
computation, mental math, problem-solving, patterns and functions, measurement,
geometry, fractions, decimals, statistics, and probability.
The Intermediate School's Science curriculum continues the process of assisting
students to develop skills whereby they can observe, hypothesize, experiment,
measure, interpret and record scientific phenomena.
The Social studies curriculum examines history and culture from these topical
areas: ancient civilizations of the Far East, Greece and Rome, central Europe
through the Medieval period, the new nation of the United States, the Westward
Movement, and the Civil War.
Social studies faculty format instruction to incorporate a variety of learning
experiences, recognizing the value of including individual research, literature,
dramatic presentation, field trips, art work, group research, class discussions
and cooperative learning.
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