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Serving grades K-5

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Our mission at Woodwinds Grammar School is to foster a curiosity of learning where students feel safe and open to explore new ideas and interests. We value the arts and integrate them into our daily learning to help students meet their full potential. We stand by our motto: be curious, be kind, be respectful.

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We believe that arts and humanities should be the focus of a child's education. Along with our math and ELA curriculum, we integrate art, music, dance, and yoga into our schedule.

Each student has two blocks of humanities daily, as well as a 45 minute block for free play.

We use Illustrative Math for our math curriculum and Open Up Resources ELA and Bookworms Reading & Writing for English Language arts. Our ELA program uses science and social studies texts alongside prose to integrate these into our day. We also focus on both science and social studies within our humanities classes.

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8:30 AM - Arrival & breakfast
9:00 AM - Morning meeting
9:30 AM - Humanities class (art, music, or yoga)
10:15 AM - Snack & social break
10:30 AM - Math lesson
11:30 AM - Social break
11:45 AM - Bookworms Reading & Writing
12:15 PM - Lunch
12:45 PM - Free play
1:30 PM - ELA
2:30 PM - Humanities class (art, music, dance/PE)
3:00 PM - Closing meeting
3:15 PM - Dismissal

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Our classrooms are ADA compliant and offer a wide range of seating options. Students are allowed to sit where they are comfortable during lessons with the exception of art class.

We celebrate diversity at Woodwinds Grammar School and offer multiple forms of media that are inclusive to all. Our school library has a variety of books with diverse characters. We want to represent and celebrate every student that walks through our doors.

We have a Board Certified Behavior Analyst (BCBA) that helps create a safe learning environment for all our students. Students with disabilities and behavioral challenges are embraced within our school and work closely with our BCBA and social workers to help them excel in our school.

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Each of our classrooms is stocked with chromebooks for student use. Our teachers use smartboard technology to have interactive lessons. Upon request, iPads are also available for use in the classroom.

Chromebook integration starts in kindergarten to develop our students digital literacy skills early. Educational games are also offered to all students during free time.

Grades 3 through 5 participate in a typing and coding class weekly. We also offer a coding and robotics after school program to these grades.

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We offer a wide range of after school programs to all students. We encourage parents and community members to volunteer their time and knowledge to provide a large variety of programs.

Some past programs that have been offered are knitting, robotics, lego club, and wood carving.

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Monthly we host a 'Bring your parent to school' night where parents and students gather in their individual classrooms to have free play and a mock morning meeting. This helps students to give their parent or guardian a look into what they do each day. This also provides parents the opportunity to meet other parents of similar age students.

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In April & May, during our poetry units, fourth and fifth grade students are invited to participate in our annual poetry slam. They can showcase their work and support fellow students.

We also have bi-monthly bingo nights, alternating between books for bingo and math bingo.

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In the Fall and Spring, our students and families are invited to join us for a town wide clean up.

Each school year we decide on a service learning project to work on. Throughout the year, all grades participate in focused projects to help move our project forward. For the 2022-23 school year, we chose to help out our local nursing homes. So far students have made holiday cards for patients and staff and our knitting club is in the process of completing blankets for patients.

By participating in these projects, students learn to help serve their community and think beyond just their own needs. They learn how making their community a safer and kinder place helps everyone feel better about where they live.

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Throughout this class, I have learned how to engage students of all backgrounds and disabilities better. I feel that the more I learned about cultural inclusion, the more I saw how the social aspect of school affects children.

Prior to this class I was aware that technology was used in the classroom but never thought about how it needed to really be used in a meaningful way. I have seen firsthand how the lack of access to chromebooks effects a school.

I will move forward in my current profession as a paraprofessional and future profession as a teacher using the knowledge from this class to help my students socially gain more confidence and be inclusive of their peers. I believe focusing on social issues is a way to create well rounded and kind students.

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Dog Eat Dog Films. (2015). Where to Invade Next.

English language arts curriculum. Open Up Resources. (2021, February 4). Retrieved April 21, 2023, from https://openupresources.org/ela-curriculum/

Im K–5 math. Illustrative Mathematics K–12 Math. (2023, February 11). Retrieved April 21, 2023, from https://illustrativemathematics.org/math-curriculum/k-5-math/