A lineage is a group of  1st, 2nd and 3rd graders who serve together in Student Council, take part in special events like Art's Month together, and regularly, but not everyday, enjoy the same lunch table.

  

When lineages take turns serving as our student council, their responsibility is to organize and execute two events: one which will benefit  the school community and one which helps those in need outside of school.  Third graders Christian, Cora and Haydsen led their lineage to the police station where thye served lunch and banana bread they made themselves.  Tara and Tajmana's lineage has decided to sponsor a math-a-thon to support the St Jude Children's Hospital. 

  

Can you feel a pajama day coming up?

 

David Elkind is a Professor Emiritus of child development at Tufts University in Medford, Massachusetts. He has written extensively and is perhaps best known for his popular books - The Hurried Child, All Grown Up and No Place to Go, Miseducation, and The Power of Play. Professor Elkind is a past president of National Association for the Education of Young Children (NAEYC). This is an excerpt from the article.

 

The values of reading to children highlight the dangers of too much television viewing during the preschool years and particularly before the age of two. When we read to children, they look at the pictures in the book to be sure; but they are also attending very closely to the words we are saying (except perhaps when we are reading Business Week). That is why they get distressed if we leave a word or two out. Listening to us read helps children to make the auditory discriminations that are so essential to attaining reading skills. Reading is as auditory as it is visual. That is why, even as adults, we get hung up when we encounter words on the page that we cannot pronounce. We are subconsciously saying the words in our heads as we read.