Feeling and Letting Go of Worries
In honor of May’s Mental Health Awareness Month, second graders found way to identify difficult feelings like worry and fear and then let them go.
Making It at a Community School
What making it looks like at a community school! #squadgoals
10 Week Check-In with 2nd Grade Writers
2nd graders have spent the last 10 weeks working on storybooks — here’s where they are today …
The Role of Literacy Skill Practice in the First Grade Classroom
How and why we offer opportunities for discreet literacy skill practice in addition to project-based work.
Archival Research at the Library
Middle School historians were eager to get their hands on some primary sources during their Cutchogue research. Fortunately, the library’s archives are right across the street.
5th Annual PCS Maker Fair Returns!!
What a day! The Maker Fair returns to PCS this spring with the biggest, best, morst creative, innovative and community-filled event yet! Read on for highlights …
Deepening a Math Lesson with Manipulatives
Watch to see how utilizing manipulative elevates a math lesson.
"Is it ... just birds?" An insider's guide to our student-driven Integrated Studies Unit
What and how one class islearning through this trimester’s student-guided Integrated Studies Unit.
The moment letters and sounds become words and meaning!
The science of reading is so magical. Kindergarteners are working with CVC words to blend letters and phonemes together to make words.
Maps Tell a Story
5th graders are using maps and primary sources as a portal to dive deep into the story of Seneca Village — a story they uncovered as they explore the process of mapping and how maps can be physical representations of the history of human decisions.
Revision and Rubrics: Leveling up Writing Across Grade Levels
Writing is an iterative process, but too often students have a “one and done” approach. We caught up with classes across grade levels about where they are in incorporating revision and rubrics to reflect on and develop their writing work.
A Self-Made, Child-Directed Outdoor Playspace
Fewer predetermined structures many more opportunities for open-ended exploration and imagination.
Numeracy and Number Sense on the 100th Day in Kindergarten
On the 100th day of Kindergarten, mathematicians worked to compute and express the number 100 as a numeral and a value.
Maker Monday!
Maker Monday: a constructive start to the week that gets students deeply engaged first at the start of the week.
No grades?!?!
Biannual Narrative Student Reports are out — and they paint clearer, more comprehensive pictures of our students as learners, friends and school community members than a letter or number grade ever could.
Project-Based Math in the Primary Classroom
* This* is integrated, project-based math: a wingspan scatterplot depicting data on mean, median, mode from third and fourth grades’ Birds of Cutchogue study.
Authentic Literacy in Early Childhood: Writing Letters to Friends
Writing real letters to friends to mail next door at the post office is inspiring literacy learning in Early Childhood.
Middle School Science Lab Bubbles Over
Ending the day with a … bang? …blast? … bloom? …bubble? in the Middle School Science Lab.
Social Justice in the Classroom
How our third and fourth graders understand the role of Restorative Justice in their classroom.
Transformative Clay Play in Early Childhood 4/5's
Clay play in Early Childhood 4/5’s let’s children unleash their powers to transform the world around them with their bare hands — just look what they can shape and create!