Hello Friends,
Welcome to the William O. Schaefer School Home Page. Here at our school
we do all that we can to make school an active and challenging learning
experience for our students who are in second grade and third grade.
We have a computer center of three or four computers in each classroom.
Our technology resource teacher works with our teachers and their classes
to integrate the use of the computers with each subject area. We do research
using encyclopedias and the Internet. We do E-mail projects with students
in the building, in Rockland County, and in various countries around the
world. The classes also do multimedia presentations.
Our school is one of three focus schools for the Lincoln Center Institute.
Lincoln Center sends teaching artists into the classrooms and performances
into the district to give children and experience of how artists create
works of art. This helps them to better love and understand the arts.
In our music classes, our third graders learn to play the recorder and our
second graders use the Orff instruments. In art, the children do wonderful
paintings and make many things such as puppets and masks.
Our physical education teacher stresses the need to exercise, to eat healthy
foods, and to not ever smoke.
In all of our subjects, our students learn about themselves and the world
around them as they build their communication skills of reading, writing,
listening and speaking, and their math skills. We have a school of writers
and readers who are growing and learning.