Our school is a public Montessori school in Alaska. Our teaching philosophy supports following the child. We strive to create a learning environment that is prepared for and centered around all of our children's interests. It is our job to help spark curiosity within our students so that they may learn to love learning. Our goal is to help mold each of our children to be lifelong learners.
Our students are extraordinary because they are not afraid to be creative, to be curious, to question the world around them, to care for one another, to stand up for themselves and their peers, or to push themselves beyond their frustrations.
Due to our school being Montessori, we spend three full school years together. We have our kids from first through third grade. We have more than a teacher-student relationship; our classes become a family.
Our school serves many military families. We understand what it takes to nurture the academic and social-emotional needs of these students and families during deployment and all transitions they may experience. Our philosophy allows military students to quickly adjust to our learning style and gives them the opportunity to explore the world around them.
My Project
Our classroom currently has just two dictionaries that are child-friendly. They are from 1987. We also have a handful of thesauruses and they are from 1989. We are in dire need of an update!
Our language lessons revolve around investigating and understanding the parts of speech and grammar.
Many of the independent lessons that the kids are responsible for completing require a dictionary. They need to be able to access a resource that can help them better understand the context of words, how to apply them, and to identify what part of speech they are, if they're homographs, homophones, etc. Our current dictionaries are just not cutting it. We need an update, badly!
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