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Specials

Specials are an important part of learning at Ludlow-Taylor. Students from PK3 through fifth grade attend art, music, library, Spanish, and physical education weekly. Our students also participate in science class and we have a dedicated science lab in our school. Through specials, students learn collaboration, team building, leadership, and project management skills.

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Students rotate through a 6-day schedule for their specials classes. This ensures that all students have an equal amount of time in each specials class. 

Art

TEACHER: 
Mr. Jean-Pierre

Culture plays a critical role in our art classes. We infuse music, singing, creative movement, and foreign language daily. Throughout the course of the school year, students learn the fundamentals of art within a compassionate classroom family culture. We use art to help students engage in healthy relationships and problem solve.  Students are taught social-emotional skills while being exposed to examples of the role of art across cultures and time. We challenge students to see themselves as creative producers of culture in the making. We encourage students to collaborate and to trust their own decision-making process. We make sure students feel safe, empowered, and comfortable making mistakes. We do our best to cultivate each student’s ability to create and use their artistic voice with courage. We insure art class is an integral part of developing our students’ ability to succeed across disciplines. Students are taught that the arts are a fun form of communication that is learned though practice. 

Health and Physical Education

TEACHERS: 
Coach Smith
​Coach Lawson

Health and Physical Education provides students with the knowledge and skills to build a foundation for a healthy lifestyle. At Ludlow-Taylor, our mission is to guide students to make healthy choices and be physically active for a lifetime. During class, students will be asked to collaboratively work together to partake in a wide-range of health and athletic activities. Learn more about how health and wellness is integrated into the school day.

Music

TEACHER: 
Mr. Levy

At Ludlow-Taylor, music classes open with conducting or moving to one of a select group of pieces. This is followed quickly by vocal warm-ups, teaching songs, and a variety of call and response activities. The major portion of the class is typically spent on learning repertoire. After the entire class has learned to sing a song, instrumental parts are covered, musical notation is presented, and lyrics are discussed and interpreted. 

​*Students especially interested in musical performance have a number of options after school and often during recess.​

Science

TEACHER: 
Ms. Godfrey

Science at Ludlow-Taylor consists of teaching our students how to observe, analyze, and solve complex problems in our community. We use STEMscopes to guide in our class discussions and experiments and use teamwork to build planning and collaboration skills. Each grade level focuses on a particular set of Next General Science Standards to gain knowledge about varies disciplines of science. We strive to build better thinkers and ensure that our students learn through interaction.

Spanish

TEACHER: 
Ms. Metheny

For the younger students, the focus is on building a level of comfort and confidence with the idea of a foreign language. These classes are more than 90% in Spanish, and incorporate singing, dancing, read-alouds, and age-appropriate center activities. We read, tell and act out classic, familiar stories like The Three Little Pigs and The Gingerbread Man, internalizing the structures, sounds and rhythms of Spanish and building basic vocabulary through total physical response storytelling.
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In the intermediate and upper grades, we dive more deeply into culture. Your child might come home ready to debate the ethics of bullfighting, a hot-topic today in Spain, or surprise you with their understanding of the geography and cultures of Latin America, connecting traditional foods and cultural practices to indigenous and colonial roots. By examining our own cultures and comparing and contrasting our own lives to those of other people around the world, we build a sense of connection and global citizenship.