Board hears wide-ranging classroom updates from staff
Summary
Superintendent summarized classroom progress across grades, from second-grade double-digit math and opinion writing to high-school novel studies and junior-high electives, and flagged upcoming events including a spring concert and student trips.
The Echo SD 5 board heard a block of staff reports covering classroom activities, extracurricular planning and upcoming events.
Superintendent reported that "they are back into the swing of things working on double digit addition and subtraction with regrouping" in second grade and that students are beginning president-research projects and opinion-writing units. She described fourth-grade work on a Lewis and Clark novel study and Oregon Trail informational writing and said fifth graders are "diving into adding and subtracting decimals and fractions" while studying Maniac Magee and analyzing literary passages connected to science lessons.
At the secondary level the superintendent said junior-high electives — including a new personal-finance unit and mock trials — are popular and that high-school students are engaged in culinary labs and art projects. School staff noted the elementary spring concert is scheduled for April 17 and that junior-high band instrument donations (trumpets, saxophone, a snare drum) are being sought. The superintendent also described student travel plans, including WorldStrides trips planned for June.
The report included FFA and career-exposure highlights: four FFA students are pursuing state degrees and the superintendent recounted FFA participation at the National Stock Show earlier in the year. The board did not take action on these informational items.
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