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Curriculum
English Language Arts (Balanced Literacy Approach)
Reading
Math
University of Chicago Everyday Math
Science
Social Studies
How do we play a role in our community? (civics)
How do leaders or groups of people change the world? (history)
What choices to we make with money? (economics)
English Language Arts (Balanced Literacy Approach)
Reading
- Decoding skills, developing fluency, comprehension skills
- Phonemic awareness, grammar, language
- Shared reading, big books, posters, poetry notebooks, author study, small guided reading groups, reader's theater, one-on-one guidance/ instruction, interactive digital lessons, reading apps with instant feedback
- Whole Brain Teaching (Brainies)
- Write From the Beginning (thinking maps, structured, prompt based)
- Guided and independent writing (Narrative, Writing to Explain Why, Writing to Inform)
Math
University of Chicago Everyday Math
- Whole and small group instruction
- Small group, partner and individual practice
- Math journals, manipulatives, practice games, extended practice apps and websites
- Spiraling units
- M.A.T.H. Rotations
Science
- Next Generation Science Standards
- Waves (light and sound)
- Space Systems- (patterns and cycles of day/night, moon and sun position, seasons)
- Structure, function and information processing (living things and the external features that help them survive)
Social Studies
How do we play a role in our community? (civics)
How do leaders or groups of people change the world? (history)
What choices to we make with money? (economics)