Math

Your child will focus on investigations into numbers, data and space as the core math curriculum at Concord Road School. At each of the grade levels, K-4, there are specific units of study that offer 2-8 weeks of work. The units are taught through investigations that enable students to explore major mathematical concepts.

Students are encouraged to find more than one solution to problems and to create their own strategies and approaches. Students are also given many opportunities to communicate their mathematical thinking. Our students work in a variety of groupings - individually, in pairs, in small groups, and as a whole class.

Our teachers also provide instruction in the basic algorithms. Students learn the number facts and commit the facts to memory in order to obtain computational fluency. Our math program is closely aligned to the New York State math standards.

Literacy

We embrace a balanced literacy philosophy around the teaching of reading and writing. Through this instructional approach, we immerse students in opportunities to read and write throughout the school day and in a variety of groupings that include whole class, small group, partner work, and individual conferences. Teachers select a particular grouping depending on the support that students need to be successful at learning a skill or strategy. When a skill is new, the teacher provides a great deal of support, gradually turning the responsibility over to the children, as they become more competent using that skill.

Your child iis taught to make appropriate book choices for themselves and to read and write deeply and broadly across a variety of genres. They are asked to read books that allow them to read with phrasing and fluency and ones they can understand on the literal and inferential levels.

To support and inform this instruction, our teachers rely on both formal and informal assessments that provide insight into the strengths and needs of individual learners. All of this practice has as its singular goal the nurturing of lifelong literacy learners who will choose to read and write.

Social Studies

The social studies curriculum at Concord Road is designed to reflect the goals and objectives of both the National Council for the Social Studies and the New York State Social Studies core curriculum. Social studies classes help students understand their roots, see connection to the past, recognize the commonality of people across time, appreciate the delicate balance of rights and responsibilities in an open society, and develop the habits of thoughtful analysis and reflective thinking.

• Kindergarten: Self and others
• Grade 1: My family and other families, now and long ago
• Grade 2: My community and other United States communities
• Grade 3: Communities around the world -- people and places
• Grade 4: Local history and local government