Hello students, families, teachers and community members! Welcome back to another exciting year at Twin City Elementary School! Our teachers and staff have been working hard to set up our learning spaces and learning more about helping our students learn and thrive in our school.
Along with our teachers, our Title I/LAP staff, and all other adults in the building have been learning how to help our students create a peaceful, happy, healthy and productive learning environment at Twin City using the PAX program. Our students and staff discuss and set up a PAX Vision for how we would like our learning environments to operate, and we work toward those goals everyday. Ask your child how he or she is working hard to be a PAX Leader each day!
We are very excited about the reading intervention curriculum our district is using with our students who need additional support in reading. We are using two levels of Really Great Reading phonics-based intervention curriculums: BLAST! for our primary students and HD Word for our intermediate students. Both programs help students understand phonics, explicitly teach strategies for decoding unknown words, and involve great materials that kids are excited to use, such as magnetic letters, sylla-boards to study multi-syllabic words, and high-interest, engaging activities to practice what they are learning. Our staff has been trained, and we are excited to use these programs with our students!Stay tuned for further blog posts, information, and ideas for supporting your child at home. We are so excited to work with our families and help our students succeed! Thanks for reading our blog!
