Kindergarten students working on a snowman at recess January 17th
Watch this space for news about school schedule changes. School is on regular schedule today!
"The Secret Garden" - OPEPO and Missoula Childrens' Theater
As 2012 began, the OPEPO Program embarked on an intensive one-week experience with the Missoula Childrens' Theater (MCT). On January 2, when the rest of us were home watching the bowl games, the OPEPO students were trying out for a play. Over the next four days they worked at the high school auditorium, and by Saturday, they put on two hour-long performances of "The Secret Garden" for two sold-out, standing-room-only audiences at the high school.
This play was an adaptation of the children's book of the same name, written by Frances Hodgson Burnett in 1911.
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The humans gather in Archibald Craven's English manor.
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The "Fireflies" take center stage.
OPEPO is our multiage team-taught program for grades 1-5, taught by Karmen Meier and Lisa Olsen. We are grateful for all the parents in OPEPO who helped plan this event and who supported it in so many ways. We are especially indebted to parent Oceanna VanLelyveld, who organized the entire week, coordinated with MCT, and refined every detail to help make this a great learning experience for our OPEPO students.
For more information about Missoula Childrens' Theater, please click here.
Kindergarten
For
the 2011-12 school year, Grant Street School offers full-day and
half-day (AM) kindergarten. Parents may choose to enroll their students
in full-day kindergarten at registration. The base tuition for the
second half of the kindergarten day is $240 per month. A sliding scale
is available for reduced tuition for families who qualify.
Currently, we have three full-day and one half-day (morning) kindergarten classes. Enrollment is between 18 and 21 students.
We
invite prospective parents to come and visit Grant Street School. To
make an appointment for a tour, or to get information about registering
for the 2011-12 school year, contact the school office at 379-4535.
Preschool students bring their teddy bears to the library to listen to a story during Teddy Bear Week.
To view our kindergarten orientation video, click here.
Grant Street Library Access
The Grant Street School Library is accessible to parents and students on-line. You can click on the link for Grant Street (or any other school in the district), and then click on the tab for "Catalog" to search our school collection. Click here to visit this site.
Grant Street School's "Eagle Reading Program" is a school-wide model where entire classes come to a purposefully designed classroom for small group reading instruction. Each class attends the Eagle Room for 20-25 minutes of reading instruction in 5-6 small groups of students. The curriculum is a balance of word work (based on a program called "Phonographix") and comprehension strategies (using a model of "Guided Reading"). Student progress is closely monitored through individual "running record" asessments, and the instructional teams meet every other week to review progress and plan instruction.
During the fall of 2007 a film crew from Reel Life Productions created a 20-minute show on reading instruction at Grant Street. , This film has appeared on our local access Port Townsend Television (PTTV). To see the film, click here. (Give it a few moments to begin to run.)
We welcome visitors to the Eagle Room. We regularly bring parents, community people, and educators from the Olympic and Kitsap Peninsulas to see the excellent, research-based reading instruction we provide. For a personal tour, please contact the school office.
{Mary Sepler teaches an Eagle Room reading group.}
Reading Specialist Mary Sepler works with two first grade students in guided reading.
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Mr. Fox introduces vocabulary words at the beginning of a guided reading lesson.
{Linda Lingafelter}
Paraeducator Linda Lingafelter teaching students to identify a sound at the beginning, middle, or end of a word.
To view our most recent school newsletter, click here.
To view the calendar of events for this month, click here.
Parent Conference Feedback
Teachers in Kindergarten through 2nd grade piloted our new standards-based progress reports in 2007-2008. We asked parents for feedback at their conferences, and 64% of our parents took the time to complete the survey.
The results of the survey were very positive: � 94% of the parents said the new progress report was clear and easy to understand. � 97% said that as a result of the progress report and conference they understood how their child was learning in school.
You may view the report card templates for each grade level by clicking on the links below.
