Our teachers were instructing kindergarteners on the use of the number line with only a paper banner above the chalkboard. Now every kindergartener has his/her own complete with a dry erase marker and eraser. Kindergarten classrooms use number lines to explore the concepts of addition and subtraction. In our version, the student can position a […]
New this year! All kindergarteners have an online subscription to Reading Eggs! Reading Eggs supplements classroom learning with individualized, one-on-one lessons that keep young children engaged and eager to learn. Those who struggle receive more practice. Those who are ‘high fliers’ can move faster. Every child has both an online learning subscription and an iPad.
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Did you know teachers spend an average of $750 per year of their own money on classroom supplies? We implemented a supply refurbishment system in February 2023. While the supplies remain the same, the storage location has changed once again. At first we had supply bins in every kindergarten and first-grade classroom. This proved too
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New this year! All kindergarteners are now enjoying learning with Mathseeds! Mathseeds provides a structured learning sequence with self-paced lessons focused on teaching essential kindergarten math skills. Every child has both an online learning subscription and an iPad. While students enrolled in tutoring are eligible to take an iPad home for after-school learning, parents may
Each and every kindergartener at Dinsmore Elementary now has his/her very own iPad to use in the classroom. This is quite an accomplishment as there are 79 kindergarteners! Now students can stay logged into their online learning accounts. Faster classroom transitions provide more time for learning! We thank our many donors over the years and
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Years ago, we made word-creation trays to support the newly adopted literacy program, UFLI. Built by teen volunteers, the trays took a lot of effort and even though we followed the online instructions provided by the University of Florida, our trays were, how shall we say it, simply functional. Now that UFLI has been in
Our kindergarteners can now earn tickets when they complete assignments both in class and at home. These tickets can then be used to shop for (mostly educational) items. Ranging in price from two to thirty tickets, children have the option to save for more expensive items. We hope that earning shopping tickets will inspire every
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These “base ten blocks” help our kindergarteners learn place value. The children can manipulate the proportionally correct blocks to represent a two-digit number and visualize how many tens and ones are in a given group. These blocks help our young students to understand the relationship between the different columns on a place value grid –
Showing kindergarteners how to take care of things is an important classroom lesson. That is why it is terrific our recent grant not only provided the math answer boards but also the storage racks. We thank the William & Helen Thomas Charitable Trust, Bank of America, N.A., Co-Trustee for the complete set-up! Click here to
Thanks to a grant by the William & Helen Thomas Charitable Trust, Bank of America, N.A., Co-Trustee, all kindergarteners can now get a handle on math, literally! The ten-frame answer boards enable children to think of numbers in terms of their relationship to ten. Mental addition/subtraction calculations become more automatic. For example, “There’s eight because
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