Beginning Grammar
Grades K-2
Student Characteristics:
Excited about learning; enjoys games, stories, songs and projects; short attention span; wants to touch, taste, feel, smell and see; imaginative, creative
Our Teaching Methods:
- Guided discovery,
- Exploration, finding things
- Use of tactile items to illustrate points
- Singing, games, chanting, recitation, coloring, drawing, painting, building
- Use of body movements
- Short, creative projects
- Show and Tell, drama, hear/read/tell stories
- Field trips
Grammar
Grades 3-6
Student Characteristics:
Excited about new, interesting facts; likes to explain, figure out, talk; wants to relate own experiences to topic, or just to tell a story; likes collections, organizing items; likes chants, clever, repetitious word sounds; easily memorizes; can assimilate another language well
Our Teaching Methods:
- Lots of hands-on projects
- Field trips
- Make collections, displays, and models
- Integrate subjects through above means
- Teach and assign research projects
- Recitations and memorization
- Drills, games
- Oral/written presentations
SSCCA has been a wonderful experience for our son. The small class size together with the teaching of strong values, ethics and excellent academics has given our son the confidence he needs to find success in and out of the classroom.
Chad and Aileen Eskildsen
