Introducing the JES Classroom "Base Teams"

JES' pre-kindergarten through grade 6 students are organized into four "base teams" of two grades each: Pre-K & Kindergarten ("Sparkles"), 1st & 2nd grades ("Detectives"), 3rd & 4th grades ("Green Mountaineers"), and 5th & 6th grades ("Explorers"). 

• Pre-K is open to all Johnson 4-year-olds. Classes meet 12 hours per week, in several morning or afternoon sessions.

• Kindergarten is full-time.

• The other three teams are organized into multi-grade homerooms, with students staying in the same homeroom for two years. Students are usually with their homeroom class for social studies and science (which are taught in a two year cycle), music, art, physical education, health and social skills education, recess, lunch, and special activities. For math and reading, students are grouped flexibly within teams according to their current level of mastery of each subject. In addition to classroom teachers, Special Education, Enrichment, and supplemental Reading & Math teachers have math and reading groups, which keeps instructional groups small in those key subjects.

Click on the team links on the Main Menu to learn more about each of our teams and classrooms.