On Nov. 18, Garden City Public Schools hosted its Elementary Literacy and Mathematics Family Fun Night at Stratford School, providing households a night of hands-on studying all through tutorial actions and exploration. The occasion featured 12 teacher-facilitated workshop classes in literacy and arithmetic, together with alternatives for households to go to the Scholastic Book Fair.
Mathematics workshops included “Factors and Fraction Fun,” the place college students practiced fractions and multiplication by way of a aggressive “Five in a Row” recreation with members of the family; “Multiplication Squares,” a enjoyable and inventive twist on the standard “Dots and Boxes” that challenged members to roll cube, generate multiplication expressions and full the board strategically; and “Building with Base Ten Blocks,” which invited households to discover place worth, addition and subtraction whereas designing towers, patterns and homes.
Literacy classes supplied equally enriching experiences. In “Word Stack,” members used 10 letter-labeled cups to construct as many phrase towers as doable, and in “Sight Word Bingo,” college students sharpened important studying and writing vocabulary by way of an interactive recreation format. In “Literacy Rotation Stations: Content Area Book Talks and Vowel Team Fun,” households moved by way of a collection of hands-on actions together with bookmark-making, studying informational texts in science and social research, and practising vowel crew phrase mapping to attach sounds to letters.
Throughout the night, households additionally visited the Scholastic Book Fair, made doable by way of the partnership of Garden City Schools, the PTA and PARP. Students browsed a wide array of books, found new tales and celebrated a shared love of studying.
“It was great seeing the enthusiasm of our students and families,” mentioned Dr. Kusum Sinha, Superintendent of the Garden School District. “Students enjoyed sharing books and exchanging ideas about how they can continue reading with their friends. It truly felt like a gathering centered on the joy of reading.”