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Anansi offers a playground with a variety of equipment
and surfaces for students to build skills, think creatively, and challenge
themselves. The playground includes swings, a multi-purpose play structure,
a climbing wall, monkey bars, two basketball courts, a tree fort, tether
ball, soccer field, track, and fitness stations. |
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Library and Computer
Labs: Since the facility is divided between the primary and
intermediate grades, there is a library to meet the needs, reading levels,
and interests in each facility. The primary grade library includes,
books, magazines, and digital media, and a parent library, it also offers
a Smartboard for interactive instruction and presentation. The intermediate
grade library offers nearly 3000 fiction and non-fiction titles and
reference materials as well as appropriate magazines for the intermediate
grade student. This library also includes a computer lab that is shared
by the kindergarten through third grade classes and a projector and
screen for instruction. A lap top lab is then part of the 4th and 5th
grade classrooms.
Multi-Purpose Room:
The school has a beautiful multi-purpose room with large windows
and doors that open to a large portal and beautifully landscaped lawn.
This space serves as a cafeteria, art room, and movement/dance performance
space.
Classrooms: Each
classroom is spacious (exceeding minimum square footage requirements)
and offers a great deal of natural light. In the kindergarten and first
grade classrooms there are tables and chairs to provide seats for all
students and adequate floor space for instruction that requires large
manipulative materials, while the second through fifth grade classrooms
provide each student with an individual desk as well as instructional
floor space. All classrooms are equipped with a variety of instructional
mainpulatives, classroom libraries, computers, sinks and counters, and
bathrooms. All needs are met within the classrooms to provide seamless
instruction.
Special Education
Classroom and Therapy Spaces: Anansi
provides targeted instruction in a small resource room setting for students
with special needs and provides small quiet spaces for reading therapy,
speech therapy, and occupational therapy.
Overall Campus:
The Anansi Charter school is nestled below the dramatic Sangre
de Cristo Mountains in a rural pastoral setting. The campus sits back
from the road and is surrounded by pastures and low lying adobe structures
in residential area north of Taos. There is a primary grade facility
that contains the kindergarten through second grade classrooms, the
special education spaces, primary grade library, multi-purpose room
and administrative offices. It is connected to the intermediate grade
facility by a sidewalk that leads students through landscaped yards
and the playground. The intermediate grade facility then houses the
third through fifth grade students along with a library and computer
lab. A wrap around portal leads into a courtyard and children’s
garden where students enjoy an outdoor work space. The separation is
intentional so that the unique needs and maturational difference between
the ages can be nurtured.
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