Lower School Helping Students With Learning Disabilities Unleash Their Brilliance

Groves Academy strives to make an illuminating education available to all students. Approximately 35% of our families receive partial tuition assistance each year. Last year, we awarded $1.8 million in tuition assistance. Take a moment to learn about our current tuition, tuition assistance, tax deductions/credits, saving programs, and loans.

We invite you to experience Groves Academy for yourself. Register now to explore Groves Academy where you will begin with a tour and continue with a presentation and Q&A session led by our admissions team.

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Monday through Thursday: 8:25 am–3:00 pm
Friday: 8:25 am–1:00 pm
Saturday through Sunday: Closed

Before- and after-care are available.

3200 Highway 100 South, St. Louis Park, MN 55416

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The Wilson Reading System^® uses an Orton–Gillingham approach to reading instruction with direct, systematic, code-based, interactive, and multimodal instruction. It provides the skills necessary to decode (read) words and passages accurately and fluently, and to encode (spell) with ease.

The SPELL-Links to Reading and Writing^® program advances students’ spelling, listening, speaking, reading, and writing abilities. It achieves this by developing and strengthening cognitive connections among the linguistic properties of words.

By reading fiction, students learn how plot, setting development, character analysis, and conflict lead to a deeper understanding of themes and purpose. Nonfiction text (expository writing) provides students with the opportunity to develop the comprehension skills that will allow them to fully engage with a chosen text.

The Writing Revolution: Strategies for Effective Writing Instruction^® by Judith Hochman is a curriculum designed to help students of all ages develop expository writing skills. The two primary goals of writing instruction at Groves are to raise the linguistic complexity of students’ sentences and to improve the organization of their compositions. The program presents goals, strategies, and activities for writing sentences, paragraphs, and compositions, providing a clear, coherent method of instruction, turning struggling writers into strong communicators, deepening their understanding of content, and developing their analytical abilities.

Singapore Math^® is an instructional approach that develops mathematical reasoning and logical thinking through problem-solving. It emphasizes the development of true number sense, the intuitive understanding of numbers, their magnitude, relationships, and how they are affected by operations.

The early grade curriculum sequence includes the topics of communities, citizenship, and how culture affects people. The upper elementary curriculum sequence focuses on the United States – government, economics, geography, and history.

General Sciences introduces students to the scientific process of measuring, comparing, observing, recording data, making predictions, and classifying and applying the information to daily life.

Emphasis is placed on introducing and developing fundamental gross motor skills, locomotor and non-locomotor movements, manipulative skills, and the development of visual-spatial awareness. Students are exposed to a broad range of games, sports, and activities at a level that provides them an opportunity to experience success.

The art program at Groves Academy develops an understanding of the creative process used to promote creative problem-solving skills. It also gives each student the knowledge and ability to produce successful art pieces. These goals are achieved through the study of the elements of art, principles of design, creativity, art history, and critique.

The home science courses include fundamental life skills, including basic cooking and sewing. Home Science lessons engage students in multi-sensory and interactive classroom activities providing natural opportunities for peer socialization, collaboration, and teamwork.

All lower school students have access to their own laptops or tablets. Students receive direct instruction in keyboarding and the basic knowledge necessary to operate a computer.

The music program at Groves Academy fosters our students’ musical literacy, increases creative expression, and develops confidence. Classroom activities include moving, singing, playing, and listening.