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Shea Andriko

Girls on the Run Community Service Project

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As part of their culminating service project, Girls On The Run participants have organized a donation drive to collect items for Peaceable Kingdom, a local animal shelter in Whitehall, PA.

Donated items will help the staff and volunteers to provide excellent care for the pets in need as they wait to be adopted. Some of the most useful items for donation include food, treats, beds, collars, leashes, blankets, cleaning supplies, etc. (Click here for a more complete list of shelter wish list items)

Donations can be brought to school and left in the collection box located in the lobby of the main building. The box will be in the lobby through Friday, May 31.

Thanks for helping our team make a difference!

Girls On the Run at Moravian Academy Deadline Extended!

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If you want to run and make new friends, sign-up for Girls on the Run! You’ll get to play games while you talk about things that are important to you like friendship, bullying and celebrating what makes you unique. At the end of the season, you’ll get to run, walk or hop across the finish line at the Girls on the Run 5k with your coaches and teammates.

Girls on the Run at Moravian Academy is open to girls in 3rd – 5th grade.

Program Dates: March 19th – May 30th, 2019
Days: Tuesdays & Wednesdays
Time: 3:30-5:00 pm

Coaches: Mrs. Zemsky & Mrs. Andriko
5k: Thursday, May 30th, 6:00 pm race start

Register by March 3rd- extended from the previous March 1 deadline – at 10:00 pm:

For more information, view this flyer or visit https://www.gotrlehighvalley.org/.

Lower School Director’s Coffee Recap

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On Tuesday morning, Mrs. Shea Andriko and I welcomed an engaged group of parents to discuss literacy initiatives at the Lower School. 

Please enjoy a “window into the classrooms” through Mrs. Andriko’s video below about the Reading Workshop program, as well as the Powerpoint presentation used to guide and inform our conversations. 

Personalized Learning

Additional discussion points inspired by our personal learning conversation included:

  • The Lucy Calkins reading workshop is sparking engaged reading, thinking and problem-solving.
  • Spanish Immersion classrooms utilize benchmarking and workshop methods, but supplement silent reading with small group or paired reading.  Speaking, listening and reading the second language continues to strengthen along with the reading skills.
  • Text characteristics, student choices and  Fountas and Pinnell benchmarked reading levels are requested to be shared by teachers in report cards and/or conferences.
  • Earlier conferences this year allowed for earlier teacher feedback which is beneficial, but additional concrete detail would also be appreciated.
  • It was suggested that nightly reading and First in Math homework be included in the total number of minutes assigned each night. Explicit instructions by the teacher are helpful.
  • Developmental Designs methods are helping students strengthen self-regulation where listening and compromise can be experienced over majority rule.