EL Education is a comprehensive, skills-based core literacy program that encourages active, collaborative and meaningful learning in students and in teachers through real world content. It uses project based tasks to develop deeper learning skills such as problem solving and communication.
Phonics/Spelling-We are using Fundations for our phonics/spelling this year. It is a systematic, multi-sensory, rule based program. The children will also be learning cursive through this program.
In Class Read-Alouds
Gooney Bird Greene by Lois Lowry
There’s never been anyone like Gooney Bird Greene at Watertower Elementary School. What other new kid comes to school wearing pajamas and cowboy boots one day and a polka-dot t-shirt and tutu on another? Gooney Bird has to sit right smack in the middle of the class because she likes to be in the middle of everything. She is the star of story time and keeps her teacher and classmates on the edge of their seats with her “absolutely true” stories. But what about her classmates? Do they have stories good enough to share?
There’s never been anyone like Gooney Bird Greene at Watertower Elementary School. What other new kid comes to school wearing pajamas and cowboy boots one day and a polka-dot t-shirt and tutu on another? Gooney Bird has to sit right smack in the middle of the class because she likes to be in the middle of everything. She is the star of story time and keeps her teacher and classmates on the edge of their seats with her “absolutely true” stories. But what about her classmates? Do they have stories good enough to share?