Duniway Elementary School

Everyday is a new adventure and we are never idol. We celebrate the learning environment and honor everyone’s capacity to learn, grow, and contribute. We explore all curricular areas in our classroom in an integrated approach as much as possible.

Of course there is so much more that can’t be written here, but know that we have a wealth of strategies and child-centered learning activities happening at school. Most students will say that the best part of their day is CHOOSING TIME. During this time they have ample opportunity to learn academic and social skills that will nurture them for a lifetime.

Our classroom community begins to grow with an August “get-together” at Berkeley Park before we come together in September. This gives all of us a chance to meet each other and feel comfortable.

We invite you to explore the entire website to see all that Duniway has to offer beyond our classroom experience. Thanks for visiting the room one website. We look forward to seeing you!

Here is a quick look at our year with some themes and special events:

September:

Citizenship, Friendship, Cooperation, About Me

Math: thinking mathematically unit, number writing, estimation, graphing, counting.

Science: observation (intro to process skills), fall season

Literacy: phonemic awareness, letter writing, writing and reading strategies, favorite literature

October:

Citizenship, Family, Cooperation, Fall Celebration, Begin Apple Unit, Apple Festival, Halloween and connected activities,

Begin Student of the Week

Math: estimation, graphing, shapes, patterning, sorting and classifying

Science: trees unit begins, planting fall bulbs

Literacy: continuation, begin letter of week study

November:

Harvest, Harvest Festival, Thanksgiving, Family Celebrations

Math: 2-D, 3-D shapes, continuation of previous math themes

Science: continuation, food groups, leaf collections

Literacy: continuation, book making

December:

Winter Celebrations and Traditions, Christmas, Hanukkah

Math: continuation

Science: finish tree unit, inventions

Literacy: continuation, favorite literature sharing

January:

Winter Season, Martin Luther King, Peaceful Solutions, Chinese New Year and Dragon Parade

Math: collecting, counting, and measuring unit, continuation of other concepts, skip counting

Literacy: continuation, begin writer’s workshop and author’s chair, strategies for reading and writing

February:

Citizenship, Community, Valentines Day and connected activities, Dental Health Month

Math: continuation, place value

Science: begin animals unit

Literacy: continuation, writing expository text

March:

Spring Season, St. Patrick’s Day and related activites

Math: counting ourselves and others unit

Science: designing seed growing experiment, process skills, continuation of animals unit

Literacy: continuation, deeper study of writing/reading strategies, plant journals

April:

Spring, Renewal, Earth Day and Environmental Appreciation, Growing and Changing, Zoo Field Trip

Math: how many in all unit

Science: animals unit and seed experiment continues

Literacy: continuation

May/June:

Growing and Changing, Celebrating our Year, Crystal Springs Field Trip, Celebrating our Friendships

Math: measurement, continuation

Science: process skills, conclusion of animals unit, group animal reports, group reports of Crystal Springs

literacy: continuation, author’s celebration