Learning Lab News – Growing Skills and Confidence!
Our Learning Lab classes have been hard at work building important academic skills and developing confidence across subjects. It’s been exciting to see the progress students are making each day!
In ELA Learning Lab, students have been focusing on developing a strong growth mindset—learning how to embrace challenges, persist through difficult tasks, and recognize that effort leads to improvement. Alongside this, students are strengthening their literacy skills by studying prefixes and suffixes, helping them break down and understand new vocabulary. In writing, students are practicing paragraph construction with a focus on clearly expressing ideas and citing evidence to support their thinking. These skills are essential for success across all subject areas.
In Learning Lab Math, students are tackling some key concepts that build a strong foundation for future math success. They are working on long division, improving accuracy and understanding of multi-step processes. Students are also learning to multiply with decimal numbers, a skill that requires careful attention to place value. Additionally, they are practicing simplifying expressions, helping them build early algebraic thinking and problem-solving skills.
We also want to give a special shout-out to our 6th graders, who recently returned from 6th-grade camp! Students had a fantastic time participating in outdoor activities and challenges that helped them build teamwork, communication, and leadership skills. These experiences not only created lasting memories but also strengthened the sense of community among our students.
We’re proud of the hard work happening in Learning Lab and look forward to seeing continued growth throughout the year!
