The Bodine School

Thematic Unit - "Unity" - Each six weeks, students will work with a theme to help them to integrate the knowledge and skills they are learning across grade levels and into their lives outside of school. This six weeks students will be exploring the concept of unity. What is unity? Doe we all have to think alike to be unified? Where does unity exist in our world and how does unity or the lack of it affect us?   

         Students perform best when they develoop and use their own study strategies. Parent should work with middle school students to create a study plan, ensure adequate prep time, and exeriment with strategies to learn which are most effective. Most students perform better when strategies include auditory, visual and kinesthetic elements, and fortunately there is some overlap in most strategies.  

• Examples of auditory strategies include oral repetition, oral quizzing, practicing flash cards aloud with another person, creating songs or oral mnemonic (memory) sentences, using a tape recorder to practice how answers sound.
• Examples of visual strategies are reading notes or outlines; flash cards; written quizzes; creating mental or actual pictures that link information; or creating diagrams, webs and flow charts.
• Kinesthetic activities can include any of the above when motion or tactile elements are included - such as pacing or tapping fingers on the table while reciting responses, tracing terms on a rug while quizzing, or writing responses, especially in cursive.