Teacher: Lenton Parks
Years Teaching: 4
What does he love about All Saints?
I enjoy the caring environment that allows students to feel safe while pursuing their academic goals. At All Saints, students feel like they are a part of a larger school community, not just an individual grade.
Language Arts
- Novel studies
- Variety of stories that cover helping others, being a good friend, and being a productive citizen of your community
- How inventions can solve problems
Handwriting and writing skills
- Journals
- Opinion Writing
- Informative/Explanatory Texts
- Narrative Writing
Math
- Place value, rounding, and algorithms for addition and subtraction
- Unit conversions and problem-solving with metric measurement
- Multi-digit multiplication and division
- Angle measure and plane figures
- Fraction equivalence, ordering, and operations
- Decimal fractions
- Exploring measurement with multiplication
Science
- How waves move and transmit information
- Earth’s landforms and features
- History of Earth’s Surface
- Earthquakes and Volcanoes
- Tsunamis and Floods
- Energy from renewable and nonrenewable resources
- Structures and functions of plants and animals
- Information processing in animals
- The role of animals’ eyes
Social Studies
- The War for Independence
- Creating a New Government
- Building a New Nation
- The United States Prior to the Civil War
- The Civil War and Reconstruction
- Project Based Learning
- “God’s Bounty” garden and outdoor classroom