READING
Q: What are the skills my child needs to become a successful reader?
A: Students must master five essential reading skills to become a confident and successful reader:
Phonemic awareness
Recognizing and manipulating initial sounds that make up spoken words
Systematic phonics
Understanding how letters and groups of letters link to sounds to form letter/sound relationships and spelling patterns
Fluency
Reading and re-reading orally to develop both automatic word recognition and fluent expression while maintaining comprehension
Vocabulary
Building language-rich interactions with text, both inferential and literal
Comprehension
Understanding the structure of fiction and nonfiction and monitoring the content for meaning
MATH
Q: What skills does my child need to be a more confident math student?
A: Students must master five essential math skills to become a confident and successful math student:
Firm number sense
Use math vocabulary consistently
Understand place value
Compute numbers automatically by adding, subtracting, multiplying, and dividing
Understanding the structure of fiction and nonfiction and monitoring the content for meaning
ENRICHMENT
Q: My child is bored at school. How can I get them excited about learning?
A: Enrichment curriculum provides students with opportunities to explore subjects areas beyond the primary curriculum. It allows students:
to be challenged
to further their knowledge in their interest area
to connect on a deeper level with a subject or topic
to ponder questions, seek answers, solve a problem
to think at a higher level
MUSIC LESSONS
Q: My child is not into sports or physical activities. What do you offer for students who need a creative outlet?
A: Music engages and stimulates a student’s ability to process sound, which is fundamental to language development, brain development, reading skills, and successful communication. We offer:
Piano Lessons
Guitar Lessons
Voice Lessons
