The English Language Learner (ELL) teachers are going into classrooms this year during science and social studies. This includes supporting students to acquire language in context through a variety of strategies.  These strategies are good for ALL students and …

Third graders at Madison Elementary have been learning about different cultures within a society.  Students are learning about their own cultures through conversations with their families as well as learning the cultures that their friends’ are involved in.

Madison students enjoyed their first assembly in the new gym on Wednesday. Silk Road Ensemble members Shaw Pong Lui and Preeti Vasudevan performed songs and dances. Shaw Pong Lui and Preeti Vasudevan expressed their joy in seeing and …

The first graders in Lindsay Ringleb and Jo Walker’s  classes have been using an apple theme to learn about counting to 120, for graphing, and for reading comprehension and writing.  They filled in missing numbers and had an apple tasting day where they tasted different kinds of apples and then graphed their favorites and then asked and answered questions about the graph. They also read many nonfiction text about apples, and wrote facts about apples.