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Our Objective in the Elementary Classes are: |
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- Academic achievement through learning to read and write, use number concepts and to spell.
- Cultural growth through learning to speak and write clearly, correctly and expressively. To appreciate Art and express their self through Art Media.
- Social adjustment through learning to get along with others, practice desirable character values, and solve problems.
- The objectives of reading program include extending and enriching the experiences of the child, boarding and improving interests and tests in reading, fostering the personal social adjustment of the child, providing worthwhile recreational interests and skills, encouraging critical analysis of ideas, developing resourcefulness in finding information. Promoting self-reliance and achieving satisfactory progress in such basic reading skills as word recognition, vocabulary development, comprehension and speed.
- Handwriting is not an end in itself, but a tool for communication and self-expression. It meets the need that pupils have for recording ideas, writing messages, signing their names, letters and labeling objects.
- Without losing the sight of the values of acquiring useful information, the social studies program helps each child to grow continuously in the abilities need for effective participation, in the life of a democratic society. The social studies are concerned with human relationships, with the development of social literacy, and with the improvement of behavior.
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