Intellectual Development
Our students will learn key academic skills - like reading, writing and math - to encompass the knowledge and processes associated with intellectual development. As learners and meaning-makers, students take subject-specific concepts and content and transform them into a new understanding.
Goals
- Improve student success in literacy.
- Improve student success in numeracy.
At Ross Elementary, we foster early numeracy skills through engaging, hands-on learning experiences that make math both meaningful and fun. Our students build number sense and subitizing skills by playing structured math games that reinforce concepts like counting-on, one-to-one correspondence, and place value. Through guided math centers, tactile manipulatives, and collaborative problem-solving, we support the development of flexible thinking, pattern recognition, and early operational fluency. By integrating numeracy into everyday play and inquiry, we help students gain confidence as young mathematicians.
At Ross Elementary, we grow strong readers and writers by immersing our students in rich, joyful literacy experiences every day. Through guided reading groups, phonemic awareness activities, and interactive read-alouds, our learners build foundational skills in decoding, fluency, and comprehension. We use strategies like shared writing, word work, and oral language routines to develop phonics knowledge, vocabulary, and sentence structure. Whether through literacy centers, storytelling, or independent book exploration, we nurture a love of language and help students become confident, curious, and capable communicators.
