Specials at your elementary school?
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Anonymous
But this is after school isn't it? And only at certain schools? |
Anonymous
| Nope - FCPS school with FLES during the day. |
Anonymous
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Music (Chorus once a week, Classroom music twice a week, band once a week)
Art (Once a week) History (Every day. Not a special) Science (Every day. Not a special) PE (Twice a week) Recess (Four Days a week. No Mondays) Language (Spanish Twice a week.) |
Anonymous
4x/wk for music?! |
Anonymous
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First grade:
Recess twice a day Art 1x/week Music 2x/week PE 3x/week Library 1x/week Spanish 2x/week |
Anonymous
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FCPS
School #1, 1st grade Music, Art, Computers 1x/wk PE 2x/wk Daily recess except for Mondays Afterschool activities: Language (before), chess club (after), lego robotics (after), student council for the big kids. There are more but these are the only ones I know oof for 1st graders School #2, 5th grade Art every other week Strings or Band, Spanish 1x/week-regular daytime class, no extra fee. Music, PE 2x/week Daily recess except for Mondays Extracurriculars: robotics, Science Olympiad, Oddessey of the Mind, lego clubs, drama, musical theatre/dance, girls on the run, spring musical, fencing, video game programming, fencing, student council, some sort of literary club/arts magazine group. I am more aware of the activities here since my kid at this school is older. There are a few more extracurriculars than I have listed. |
Anonymous
| Forgot library, 1x/wk |
Anonymous
FLES is during the school day and taught by FCPS teachers. We have it at our school - not sure how useful it is. |
Anonymous
FLES is during school and FLEX is after school (and expensive). There's also something called Global Languages (or something like that) at some schools that they are piloting. New program, no idea if it will stick, but it's also after school but free. FLES is a push in instructional until - 30 minutes twice a week where a teacher comes into the class and teaches the language as opposed to immersion where they teach the core subjects in the languages. The difference is between 1 hour a week and about 10 hours a week of instruction in the language. |
Anonymous
| We have Mandarin FLES at our school. I think it's twice a week. |
Anonymous
Yes, but only because she is in Chorus and Band. |
Anonymous
what school? 2x 30-min a wk? |
Anonymous
Shrevewood. It's twice a week. I think 30 minutes per session, but it could be 45. |
Anonymous
| Thanks for the info, I got FLES mixed up with FLEX. I do wish that foreign language was a special at all schools though rather than just the schools that have FLES. |
Anonymous
| Well, that is the plan to have FLES in all schools. They just need the money. After seeing how little time the children have for recess and core subjects, you might end up preferring they keep foreign language after school instead. |