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Mathematics
Mathematics: Math is seen as another language. We could call the subject “numeracy” in keeping with “literacy”, which may more accurately reflect our understanding of the subject. Children need practice in mathematics in order to build confidence, and they often do best when the approach to the subject allows them to grow their sense of number over time. A “spiral curriculum”, one that keeps returning to certain basic concepts while at the same time pushing outward, meets the needs of most children. We work with math standards established by the National Council of Mathematics and draw our resources from the Miquon Math Program, Bridges Mathematics Curriculum, Math Their Way and Marilyn Burns material.
Sources that Inform Our Curriculum
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Book Links
We have decided to publish articles that Camille Hayward wrote in the 1990s for Book Links magazine, an imprint of the American Library Association, as they are not available on the internet per se. Written for an audience of teacher colleagues as a means of expanding unit planning by the creative use of library resources, each one was published after Hayward taught the unit to more than one group of children at Seattle Country Day or at The Valley School. At Lake and Park she has more than once taught a Summer Camp class on the works of Edward Lear, and often brings out the gingerbread books in December.