District presenter Luke summarizes preschool through high school classroom work and holiday events

Luke opened the meeting by saying, “I have been lax in my duties this year,” then delivered a comprehensive faculty report covering classroom activities across the district.

At the elementary level, Luke said Miss Owen’s preschool class is focusing on letters G and H, basic counting and name-tracing and is enjoying Christmas-themed stories and crafts. He relayed that Miss Parker’s second-graders are studying landforms, weather and global cultures while practicing double-digit addition and sequencing exercises that will culminate in in-class demonstrations. “If you guys have never seen one of those lessons, it's really hilarious,” Luke said when describing a classroom demonstration involving cookie-decorating instructions.

Third-grade teacher Mr. Malloy reported students are being introduced to division using models and are practicing text annotation to improve comprehension; they are drafting weather-related informational essays and have created and tested classroom thermometers. In fifth grade, Mrs. Campbell told the board the class moved from coordinate planes into decimals and is developing fluency with fractions, decimals and percents; she said the class is preparing for a five-day STEM experience that will count toward science grades.

Luke also summarized junior high and high school curriculum: a middle-school unit on space travel and animal-human interactions, a high-school memoir study of Elie Wiesel’s Night with student research projects, and English units on The Crucible and Romantic-era American authors. He closed by noting extracurricular programs — culinary arts’ cake unit, yearbook progress and ASB holiday planning — and invited board members to contact faculty with questions.