This is who we are.
The Primary Day School in Bethesda, Maryland, educates boys and girls during the four most important learning years of their lives—Pre-Kindergarten, Kindergarten, First Grade, and Second Grade. Children are full of energy, curiosity, and potential during this magical time of life. A Primary Day education taps all three to the fullest.
What is the Phonovisual Method?
The Phonovisual Method is a phonics-based approach to teaching reading, writing, and spelling that influences the entire literacy program and is integrated throughout the curriculum. It continues to prove its value, having outlasted countless trends and changes in reading instruction.
With an understanding that the best way to appreciate the uniqueness of Primary Day is to see it in person, we are offering individual tours so you may have the opportunity to visit Primary Day!
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Dissent Over the Smartphone’s Role in the
Increase of Adolescent Mental Health Concerns “What if phones aren’t to blame for teen malaise after all?” was the provocative title of an opinion piece by Kara Bettis Carvalho in last weekend’s Boston Globe. Carvalho writes of Boston College professor Peter Gray’s work which notes that, despite steady declines in teen mental health measures, there was a blip upwards between 1990 and 2002. What does he credit with this minor improvement? The arrival of computers. Gray believes that “the main purpose of…
