Phonics Fun

Shivani M., Mackenzie R. and Jacqueline S. (not pictured) celebrated their graduation from British Aerospace Systems’ (BAE) Women in Technology (WiT) Engineering internship. WiT is a collaborative partnership between BAE Systems and local high schools.

The program allows female students to work with their peers and explore a variety of technical careers in a team environment with support and guidance from BAE Systems employees. The program offers mentorship, support, and hands-on learning opportunities for female high school students interested in pursuing STEM careers. Thank you to their teachers, Tom Shea, who taught the students engineering, and Diane Nelson, who managed the internships.

North Ridge students are working hard during the district's new phonemic awareness push-in program for kindergarten. This new program is taught by the district's speech-language pathologists who have expertise in the area of phonological processing.

Phonenic awareness is the ability to understand that spoken words are made up of individual sounds called phonemes, and it’s one of the best early predictors for reading success. These weekly lessons provide opportunities for the students to develop phoneme awareness and proficiency through rhyme, blending, segmenting, and substituting syllables and phonemes.