Reading Students learn about the following reading skills and strategies: identifying and referring to key ideas and details within a text as textual evidence; using structural elements to identify type of text; comparing and contrasting themes, point of view and author influence; and integrating knowledge and ideas across multiple texts and presentations. Writing Students take […]
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Early Childhood Curriculum
Program Philosophy and Goals During the early childhood years, children are learning to trust others outside their families, gaining independence and self-control, and taking initiative and asserting themselves in socially acceptable ways. Children are also learning to think and they learn by doing and playing. Children make sense of the world around them through active […]
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8th Grade Curriculum
Reading Students read historical fiction and non-fiction in the form of articles and memoirs. Additionally, students read from classic literary novels and compare them to films such as “Gone with the Wind” and “True Grit.” Students study Gothic Literature, Poetry, and an extensive literary unit on the Holocaust. In writing, we focus on writing a […]
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7th Grade Curriculum
Reading Middle school readers delve into a variety of genres in literature circles. Students are challenged to push their reading to higher levels while developing strong reading strategies that will help them understand complex text throughout the rest of their academic career. English/Language Arts Students work on crafting stories, plays, myths, arguments and poems with […]
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3rd Grade Curriculum
Reading Students work on Reading and Writings from the Lucy Calkins unit of study. These reading units provide students with a variety of activities and tasks every day to become better readers. Plus, the units provide concrete, doable goals to help them meet and exceed any set of high standards. All year long, we practice […]
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6th Grade Curriculum
Math Students begin to apply the skills that they learned in fifth grade to basic algebra. Students work with fractions and decimals when solving problems and learning about ratios. Students also learn how to write and solve basic algebraic expressions. Science Junior high focuses on developing scientific thinking in all areas. Students begin the year […]
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