Academics
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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