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Green Chimneys School at Clearpool Campus follows the academic curriculum standards designated for Intermediate School programs. All students in grades participate in New York State Standardized Testing. High school students receive instruction to fully prepare them for New York State Regents examinations or Regents Competency Tests (RCT) as determined by the Committee on Special Education.
Classrooms are equipped with current technology including SMART Boards and students have regular access to computers to benefit from educational online resources.
Math courses for students in intermediate grades are designed to help students reach learning benchmarks and achieve goals for each grade:
The Intermediate School uses the Readers Journey series, a novel-based Language Arts program dedicated to turning students into lifelong readers. The curriculum focuses on reading, grammar, vocabulary and communication skills.
Students learn and practice how to read, write, listen, and speak for information and understanding, literary response and expression, critical analysis and evaluation, and social interaction.
The science curriculum focuses on exploration:
Using our environmentally-rich campus environment, students investigate all living things, both plant and animal, as they become familiar with the Scientific Method.
Curriculum encourages students to explore the physical sciences by discovering the characteristics, properties and chemical composition of all forms of matter.
Students explore the characteristics of the plant and animal kingdom in greater depth through a focus on the living environment and are introduced to the microscopic world.
Students explore the great diversity of organisms that share the planet, study the method by which energy is transferred from the sun to all known life forms, and learn about replication of these forms through the duplication, growth and reproduction of DNA.
Teachers in all grades incorporate age-appropriate lab experiments into their class curriculum.
The Green Chimneys social studies curriculum incorporates culture and global understanding of the Western and Eastern Hemispheres, and U.S. and New York State history:
Students learn about the different cultures of the U.S., Canada and Latin America as they compare and contrast the cultures of the Western Hemisphere and focus on the geographic, economic, social/cultural and political understanding of these countries.
Global understanding continues as students learn about the geography and economic interdependence of all people living in the Eastern Hemisphere and develop an understanding about the social/cultural, political, and historical aspects of life in that area of the world.
Students study chronologically the global heritage of our nation’s people as it was prior to 1500 through the Civil War and Reconstruction periods, incorporating NY state history along with the history of the existing U.S. states and territories of the time.
Students continue their chronological study of the U.S. and New York State history from the industrial, post-Civil War era through the changing nature of the American people from World War II to present.
Lily, Java, Summer Wind, Beata, Alexa
There’s a whole lotta llamas at the farm!
Green Chimneys has been a long-time home to llamas Lily and Java, who arrived in 2006 as trained therapy animals. Llamas are environmentally sensitive, intelligent creatures that get along well with children and are noted for being well-socialized, extremely curious and highly approachable, making the pair excellent “facilitators” for the therapeutic programs at Green Chimneys.
In the fall of 2011, Lily and Java were joined by a group of llamas, creating a complete community of camelids.