Greensboro Elementary School’s Summer Learning Program has been a success, teaching students an array of subjects in STEM and Language Arts.
Last week, rising first graders learned dictation and sentence structure by writing their own with no errors. This second week of summer learning also saw students manipulating phonics skills and honing their reading comprehension strategies.
Resources like Quizziz, Do the Math IXL, Math by the Book, and others have been helping students learn mathematics during their summer learning sessions. For instance, those who earned high Smart Scores on their Do the Math IXL practice skills were rewarded with candy. These scores are a part of ongoing assessments taken by each student that evaluate their learning progress, individualizing the curriculum based on each student’s performance.
Rising fifth and sixth graders read from Wangari’s Trees of Peace by Jeanette Winter, before solving two digit by one digit multiplication problems using the open air model and partial products.
Second graders read Here We Go Digging for Dinosaurs by Susan Lendroth, followed by an activity where students got to dig for their own dinosaur bones. For this, each student randomly selected three cards and found the sum of the cards they drew. The student with the greatest number of bones won a treat.
Fourth and fifth grade students read Harlem Grown by Tony Hillery and made arrangements of tiles into rows and columns to illustrate the number of plants described in the book’s garden. Students then recorded their arrangements on chart and grid paper, as well as in journals. Third grade students also made arrays to solve multiplication problems.
First graders read aloud How Tall? Wacky Ways to Compare Height by Mark Weakland. Afterwards, students compared their heights to chairs, hot dogs, and other objects or animals.
Second graders read Ten Friends by Bruce Goldstone and wrote addition equations from the book to solve. The students enjoyed addition games after the reading.
