Literacy
We are using the EL Education Language Arts Curriculum.
What are children doing and saying in class each day with the EL Education Language Arts Curriculum?
Taking risks
Students stretch and grow their abilities by engaging with difficult texts and opening up to feedback from others by sharing their thinking. They surprise themselves with the levels they’re able to achieve.
Loving books
Students get hooked on what they’re reading and ask for more. The content is interesting, relevant, and fun. There are no textbooks or anthologies, only original texts.
Working together
The curriculum makes room for students to collaborate in pairs, small groups, or as an entire class. Students with different proficiency levels and abilities have opportunities to work together on the same content and learn from one another.
Owning standards
Students take ownership of their learning and can tell you their learning targets for each module. They know their jobs as learners and have plans to meet their goals.
Using expert vocabulary
Students can use expert-level academic and subject-specific vocabulary in discussions and writing about compelling topics.
Citing evidence
Students refer to specific examples from the texts they’re reading to make a strong case for their positions in writing and discussion.
Iterating
Students consistently give and receive feedback and revise their work to bring it to a higher standard of excellence.
Thinking critically
Students engage in original research and deep interdisciplinary investigations of rich academic topics. They develop habits of inquiry, analysis, critical thinking, and craftsmanship.
Presenting
Students proudly present high-quality learning products to peers, teachers and others beyond the classroom, knowing that their school work can have a positive impact on the world.
Mathematics
Our math program is Envisions. It is a hands on program that allows for student exploration and open-ended discovery of mathematical concepts. The following concepts will be explored in Kindergarten:
Science
In Kindergarten the students will explore many science concepts that teach them about the wonderful world around them. We will use a hands on approach as we engage the students in learning about animals and their lifecycles, weather and seasons, properties of objects, recycling, nutrition and the ocean. Many of the field trips that we will take throughout the year will reinforce the concepts learned during science.
Social Studies
In Kindergarten, children learn about the communities they live in, and begin extending their knowledge of people and their cultures throughout the world. They compare past and present changes to a variety of different neighborhoods and communities. Showing good character is also a focus during Kindergarten.
We are using the EL Education Language Arts Curriculum.
What are children doing and saying in class each day with the EL Education Language Arts Curriculum?
Taking risks
Students stretch and grow their abilities by engaging with difficult texts and opening up to feedback from others by sharing their thinking. They surprise themselves with the levels they’re able to achieve.
Loving books
Students get hooked on what they’re reading and ask for more. The content is interesting, relevant, and fun. There are no textbooks or anthologies, only original texts.
Working together
The curriculum makes room for students to collaborate in pairs, small groups, or as an entire class. Students with different proficiency levels and abilities have opportunities to work together on the same content and learn from one another.
Owning standards
Students take ownership of their learning and can tell you their learning targets for each module. They know their jobs as learners and have plans to meet their goals.
Using expert vocabulary
Students can use expert-level academic and subject-specific vocabulary in discussions and writing about compelling topics.
Citing evidence
Students refer to specific examples from the texts they’re reading to make a strong case for their positions in writing and discussion.
Iterating
Students consistently give and receive feedback and revise their work to bring it to a higher standard of excellence.
Thinking critically
Students engage in original research and deep interdisciplinary investigations of rich academic topics. They develop habits of inquiry, analysis, critical thinking, and craftsmanship.
Presenting
Students proudly present high-quality learning products to peers, teachers and others beyond the classroom, knowing that their school work can have a positive impact on the world.
Mathematics
Our math program is Envisions. It is a hands on program that allows for student exploration and open-ended discovery of mathematical concepts. The following concepts will be explored in Kindergarten:
- Counting and Number System
- Develop Counting Strategies
- One more or one less
- Before and after
- Greater than, fewer than, equal to
- Addition and Subtraction
- Learn through counting, visualizing, modeling, solving and discussing story problems
- Develop strategies to solve addition and subtraction problems with small numbers
- Use manipulatives, drawings, tools, and notation to show strategies and solution
- Measurement
- Students are introduced to length and linear measurement through measuring by comparison
- Students become comfortable with language to describe length-long, short, wide, tall, high
- Use nonstandard units (e.g., craft sticks, unifix cubes) to measure an object
- Geometry
- Describe the overall size, shape, function, and/or features of familiar 2-D and 3-D shapes
- Construct 2-D and 3-D shapes
- Make 2-D and 3-D shapes by combining shapes
- Patterns and Functions
- Constructing, describing, and extending repeating patterns
- Identifying the unit of a repeating pattern (e.g., AB, ABB, ABC)
- Data Analysis
- Sorting and classifying data
- Identify attributes and determine how they are the same and different
- Represent data
- Carry out a data investigation
- Choose and pose a question
- Determine how to record responses
- Count and make sense of the results
Science
In Kindergarten the students will explore many science concepts that teach them about the wonderful world around them. We will use a hands on approach as we engage the students in learning about animals and their lifecycles, weather and seasons, properties of objects, recycling, nutrition and the ocean. Many of the field trips that we will take throughout the year will reinforce the concepts learned during science.
Social Studies
In Kindergarten, children learn about the communities they live in, and begin extending their knowledge of people and their cultures throughout the world. They compare past and present changes to a variety of different neighborhoods and communities. Showing good character is also a focus during Kindergarten.