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On October 6th, the Red, Orange, and Yellow Cluster held their first-ever Lower Division assembly, where they learned about Indigenous Peoples’ Day, and the Water Walker Josephine Mandamin.

This week’s TWIGS covers the past week of Gaynor athletics, featuring the results from games for soccer, cross-country and girls volleyball.

This week’s TWIGS covers the past week of Gaynor athletics, featuring soccer, cross country, and girls volleyball.

In Room 202, Red Cluster students are hard at work practicing their phonological awareness with fun activities, such as jumping on colored dots to help them conceptualize how words can be segmented and sounded out.

The Green Cluster students became Olympic athletes for a day to kick off their history unit on Ancient Greece!

Dr. Clare Cosentino discusses the creation of the Parenting Toolkit Series, including gathering the materials for each topic, and the series’ benefit to the Gaynor parent community.

This past spring semester, the Pink through Yellow Clusters worked on Social Emotional Learning lessons. Each class created a classroom Charter that represented the community, emotions, and responsibilities that students and teachers in that class wanted to establish together. Charters are one of the anchor tools designed for use in RULER, a social-emotional program that helps students learn how to cope with their feelings, make decisions, and get along with others.

We are excited to present the Summer 2022 edition of the Gaynor Gazette! Find highlights and a link to the digital version here!

In January, the Blue Cluster introduced an executive functioning after school class to provide more explicit support for students who have executive function challenges. Executive functions are a set of processes that have to do with managing oneself and one’s resources in order to achieve a goal, and this class helps by providing more explicit instruction, ongoing support, and practice for students who need it.

Fire-knife dancing, basket weaving, and the importance of coconuts were all things Blue Cluster students learned this month in honor of Asian American and Pacific Islander Heritage Month.