{"id":12,"date":"2011-05-16T19:56:53","date_gmt":"2011-05-16T19:56:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/foa.wpengine.com\/?page_id=12"},"modified":"2015-02-12T02:35:00","modified_gmt":"2015-02-12T07:35:00","slug":"community-of-individuals","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"http:\/\/foastatic.local\/leadership\/community-of-individuals","title":{"rendered":"Community of Individuals"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-1750 alignright\" src=\"http:\/\/foastatic.local\/wp-content\/uploads\/communityofindividuals-300x199.jpg\" alt=\"Primary Students Perform at International Festival\" width=\"270\" height=\"179\" \/>At Five Oaks Academy we celebrate and honor\u00a0children as individuals and work to harness their unique abilities, gifts, talents, and potential. In adhering to a &#8220;whole-child&#8221; approach, our goal is to help each child reach his or her full potential in all areas of life. Activities and lessons promote the development of social skills, emotional growth, and physical coordination as well as cognitive preparation. Our holistic curriculum allows the child to experience the joy of learning, to enjoy the process, to insure the development of self-esteem, and provides the experiences from which children create their knowledge in a way that celebrates their learning styles.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-1741 alignleft\" src=\"http:\/\/foastatic.local\/wp-content\/uploads\/andrew-200x300.jpg\" alt=\"Student Observing And Respecting Nature\" width=\"180\" height=\"270\" \/>Five Oaks Academy acknowledges and addresses the idea that all people draw on multiple intelligences.\u00a0 Based on Howard Gardner&#8217;s\u00a0research and ideas, children and adults have finite strengths and learning styles known as intelligences.\u00a0 These are categorized as linguistic, logical-mathematical, spatial, bodily-kinesthetic, musical, interpersonal, intrapersonal, and naturalist intelligences.\u00a0 A majority of schools focus primarily on the linguistic and logical-mathematical intelligences.\u00a0 Studies show that recognizing and acting upon the idea\u00a0that there are a wealth of intelligences allows for a more comprehensive education of the child.\u00a0 Five Oaks Academy supports the philosophy that children need multiple forms of education to satisfy their many intelligences and modes of learning.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>At Five Oaks Academy we celebrate and honor\u00a0children as individuals and work to harness their unique abilities, gifts, talents, and potential. In adhering to a &#8220;whole-child&#8221; approach, our goal is to help each child reach his or her full potential in all areas of life. Activities and lessons promote the development of social skills, emotional [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":300,"featured_media":1741,"parent":45,"menu_order":7,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/foastatic.local\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/12"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/foastatic.local\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/foastatic.local\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/foastatic.local\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/300"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/foastatic.local\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/foastatic.local\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/12\/revisions"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/foastatic.local\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/45"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/foastatic.local\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1741"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/foastatic.local\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}