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Core Academic Subjects
EveryDay Math
Reader’s Workshop
Technology literacy full scope and sequence of activities
Writer’s Workshop
Reach High Ability Students in the Regular Classroom:
Active learning/presentations
Adjusting questions
Book Clubs/Literature Circles
Flexible grouping
Higher order thinking skills
Independent research
Interest Inventories
Multiple modes of learning (Readiness, Interest, Learning Style)
On-going Assessments
Pre-assessments
Small group instruction
Student reflection/debriefing
Student written and/or understanding of Standards
Teacher knowledge of identified students
Technology available for individual use
Varied journal responses
Enrichment Activities
Artist in Residence - see other link on our web page for information on this year's pick
Celebration of Talent each year all students are invited to share their talent with others.
• All students who love visual art submit their personal best work for display in the halls. This can include art class work, art residency works, homemade works in any medium or any size
• All students who love performing arts audition and perform in a spring Talent Show that we hold at Murray Junior High.
• All students who love writing submit their personal best to the all-school Literary Journal, a published collection of student writing in multiple genres.
Children’s Museum
Classroom fieldtrips
Cross-grade mentoring and activities
Family/School Reading Celebrations
Family Science Night -a very strong program that sponsors Family Science Nights for grades 1-3 students during the year
Leveled reading materials for reading groups- all year
Midwest Foundation Nutrition partnership - spring
Minneapolis Institute of Arts Partnership/Program- volunteer parents teach the Art Adventures curriculum with selected works from the permanent collection
Music Open Houses
Musicals, plays, and other performances
Officer Friendly- a safety program with the St. Paul police
Planetarium
Running Club
St. Anthony Park Reads Together- Our staff pick 5 school wide books each year for all classrooms to use to develop reading, writing, art, cross-grade tutoring, and research activities. Each room displays their grade appropriate activities so that all students can learn from the many ways we work with literature. We also have had the authors of several of these books visit the students.
Track and Field Day
U of M Agricultural studies - spring
Visiting Authors
Academic Rigor Definition:
Every licensed professional in the building sets the highest academic expectations for every student.
Academic Rigor:
• sets the high expectations for each child squarely in each individual classroom, and with every professional in the building
• uses data to know each student with precision to high student achievement
• is a Principle of Learning and part of the Project for Academic Excellence staff development
• is integrated among subjects
1. e.g. art is used to bring out aspects of the grade 6 ancient civilization study
2. technology is used for student research projects and student writing assignments
3. science is used in the ALC program to look at math and reading with a different lens
• looks at the whole child, learning styles
• helps define the extra enriched fieldtrips or activities and projects each room selects to use
• assesses the need for student acceleration in subjects
• high expectations and accompanying actions are fluid and can change yearly
• helps give students tools to find information, evaluate that information, and to use it
Enrichment Definition:
Those subjects and activities that go beyond or add a further dimension to make core curriculum stronger for all students as part of our focus on the whole child.
Enrichment Activities:
• planned enhancement to any curriculum or theme
• integrated to have meaning for what is being taught
• acceleration activities for students who can move beyond the core curriculum
• can happen for the whole group or flexible groups
• considers the depth or breadth of a subject
• address multiple learning styles
• is supported, in part, by SAPSA funding and grants
• activities that meet kids where they are and move them higher in some dimension
• enrichment activities relate to best practices within the classroom
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