Teacher: Kara Santana
Years Teaching: 5
What does she love about All Saints?
I love All Saints because of our family community! Everyone works together to help grow the BEST in each All Saints student.
Language Arts
- Phonics and phonemic awareness
- Fluency and reading comprehension
- Vocabulary building
- Development of literary skills
- Grammar
- Technology
- Creative writing in a journal
Handwriting
- Writing in a complete paragraph
- Pre-cursive letter formation
Math
- Whole group activities
- “Hands-on manipulatives”
- Critical thinking skills to solve real-world problems
- Fluent facts 1-20
- Place value of 1's, 10's, and 100's
- Odd and even counting
- Coin recognition
Social Studies / Science
- Current event studies: National Geographic, Studies Weekly, and Scholastic Weekly Reader
- Map skills
- Communities around the world
- Historical events
- Character development
- Project Based Learning
- “God’s Bounty” garden and outdoor classroom