2nd graders have spent the last 10 weeks working on storybooks — here’s where they are today …

megan eilersApril 18, 2024Comment

Middle School historians were eager to get their hands on some primary sources during their Cutchogue research. Fortunately, the library’s archives are right across the street.

megan eilersApril 18, 2024Comment

The Role of Literacy Skill Practice in the First Grade Classroom

How and why we offer opportunities for discreet literacy skill practice in addition to project-based work.

megan eilersApril 18, 2024Comment

5th Annual PCS Maker Fair Returns!!

What a day! The Maker Fair returns to PCS this spring with the biggest, best, morst creative, innovative and community-filled event yet! Read on for highlights …

megan eilersApril 15, 2024Comment

"Is it ... just birds?" An insider's guide to our student-driven Integrated Studies Unit

What and how one class islearning through this trimester’s student-guided Integrated Studies Unit.

megan eilersApril 1, 2024Comment

The moment letters and sounds become words and meaning!

The science of reading is so magical. Kindergarteners are working with CVC words to blend letters and phonemes together to make words.

megan eilersMarch 27, 2024Comment

Maps Tell a Story

5th graders are using maps and primary sources as a portal to dive deep into the story of Seneca Village — a story they uncovered as they explore the process of mapping and how maps can be physical representations of the history of human decisions.

megan eilersMarch 26, 2024Comment

Revision and Rubrics: Leveling up Writing Across Grade Levels

Writing is an iterative process, but too often students have a “one and done” approach. We caught up with classes across grade levels about where they are in incorporating revision and rubrics to reflect on and develop their writing work.

megan eilersMarch 22, 2024Comment

A Self-Made, Child-Directed Outdoor Playspace

Fewer predetermined structures many more opportunities for open-ended exploration and imagination.

megan eilersMarch 21, 2024Comment

Numeracy and Number Sense on the 100th Day in Kindergarten

On the 100th day of Kindergarten, mathematicians worked to compute and express the number 100 as a numeral and a value.

megan eilersMarch 13, 2024Comment

Maker Monday!

Maker Monday: a constructive start to the week that gets students deeply engaged first at the start of the week.

megan eilersMarch 11, 2024Comment

No grades?!?!

Biannual Narrative Student Reports are out — and they paint clearer, more comprehensive pictures of our students as learners, friends and school community members than a letter or number grade ever could.

megan eilersMarch 10, 2024Comment

Project-Based Math in the Primary Classroom

* This* is integrated, project-based math: a wingspan scatterplot depicting data on mean, median, mode from third and fourth grades’ Birds of Cutchogue study.

megan eilersMarch 8, 2024Comment

Authentic Literacy in Early Childhood: Writing Letters to Friends

Writing real letters to friends to mail next door at the post office is inspiring literacy learning in Early Childhood.

megan eilersFebruary 20, 2024Comment

Middle School Science Lab Bubbles Over

Ending the day with a … bang? …blast? … bloom? …bubble? in the Middle School Science Lab.

megan eilersFebruary 16, 2024Comment

Social Justice in the Classroom

How our third and fourth graders understand the role of Restorative Justice in their classroom.

megan eilersFebruary 6, 2024Comment

Transformative Clay Play in Early Childhood 4/5's

Clay play in Early Childhood 4/5’s let’s children unleash their powers to transform the world around them with their bare hands — just look what they can shape and create!

megan eilersFebruary 2, 2024Comment