Charitable Organizations, Events
06/22/2021
Read more below about Saturday’s Places initiatives.
For our Math instruction, we are focusing on two Common Core standards, one as a primary with each grade level to help build mastery of these standards by the end of our program year. We emphasize number sense and math fluency in basic addition, subtraction for third grade, multiplication, and division for fourth-grade.
Reading instruction has a great emphasis to have students read more since reading fluency is an area of great need. During their assessments students were given running records in Zoom breakout rooms, during which time students read to a teacher for a minute to determine the words per minute read correctly at grade level. Students with the lowest fluency rates will be receiving intensive support in breakout rooms in a one-on-one setting focusing on building up their fluency which will, in turn, improve their comprehension. Our current reading lessons created by our teachers include reading selections taken from Raz-Kids in both English and Spanish.
Despite having to hold classes remotely, our teachers were able to pivot with the challenging times and continue to meet our students’ needs. It is crucial to everyone involved at Saturday Place to continue to support our students even if we can’t come together in the same building. Now more than ever our students’ needs are greater and our mission is to enable our students to reach their full academic and personal potential.
