Lake Preparatory

Congrats Mrs. Cori 🎉🎈🎊❤️

We’re happy to feature Cori as today’s NAMC Grad! A Montessori teacher in Florida, Cori completed her NAMC Montessori Early Childhood certification this past spring. “One of the aspects that I love about Montessori,” shares Cori, “is how the learning process of an activity is for the child to explore and learn at their own speed. The teacher's job is to guide and encourage but also to follow the pace of each individual child.” Cori’s favorite Montessori quote reinforces this idea: “In teaching, we plant the seeds of knowledge, but it's the child who makes them bloom.” We wish you all the best as you continue to guide the garden of children in your care, Cori, and help them bloom. 💐🌷🌺❤🥰

Congrats to our 8th Graders. 100% Pass Rate on the Algebra EOC. 14 Years in a Row with 100 % Passing!

Congratulations to our Picnic Clubbers. Every student in Lower And Upper Elementary made Picnic Club, so Mr Stuart wore a pink tutu for the day. Readers are leaders.

Middle school earned money for their overnight trip to Sea World by parking cars at Bike Weekend.They spent the night in the Manta exhibit and then the day at the park.

Congratulations Haiqa on winning the Lake Prep Chess Championship.

Congrats Andrea and Roger.

Nicholas Dames has taught Literature Humanities, Columbia University’s required great-books course, since 1998. Over the past decade, he’s noticed a change among his students: They’ve become overwhelmed by the reading. One first-year student shared with him that, at her public high school, she had never been asked to read a single book cover to cover. “My jaw dropped,” Dames told Rose Horowitch last year. https://theatln.tc/m3YaGD03

Though no comprehensive data exist on this trend, the majority of the 33 professors that Horowitch spoke with relayed a similar experience: Students are shutting down when confronted with ideas they don’t understand; they struggle to get through challenging texts like they used to; they can’t stay focused on even a sonnet. “It’s not that they don’t want to do the reading,” Horowitch writes, “it’s that they don’t know how.”

One explanation is that middle- and high-school students are encountering fewer and fewer books in the classroom. But the decline in reading abilities may also be explained by a shift in values rather than in skill sets. “Students today are far more concerned about their job prospects than they were in the past,” Horowitch continues—and even if students enjoy what they’re learning in literature courses, one professor told her, they want a degree in something that seems more useful for their career. “The same factors that have contributed to declining enrollment in the humanities might lead students to spend less time reading in the courses they do take.”

Read the full story on how a generation of college students stopped reading: https://theatln.tc/m3YaGD03

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Lower elementary visited Sea Life and Madame Tussauds for their April field trip.

Lake Prep Middle School spent their Saturday at the Kinetic Challenge. Science competitions with classmates.