In this course, students will:

• Be exposed to a variety of literature: nonfiction that includes news articles, biographies, research and more; fiction that includes narratives, poems, plays and fantasy
• Develop phonics skills such as: uppercase and lowercase letter recognition, connecting letter and sound, word blending and reading decodable text
• Engage in comprehension activities during repeated readings of stories
• Learn and apply reading strategies such as predicting
• Develop grade-appropriate skills through the writing process that includes shared independent narrative and informational pieces
• Use leveled readers to align to weekly skills, reinforce high frequency words, oral vocabulary, beginning phonics and comprehension
            

Materials:

Harcourt: Read-Aloud Anthology

Harcourt: Little Book Collection

Harcourt: Grade K Storytown Practice Book Collection

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In this course, students will:

• Explore the following concepts:
  • Sorting and Classifying
  • Patterns
  • Numbers 0 to 30
  • Geometry and Fractions
  • Money and Time
  • Measurement
  • Data, Graphing and Probability
  • Addition
  • Subtraction
• Participate in hands-on and interactive activities that reinforce grade-level math concepts such as counting with one to one correspondence, creating pictographs and learning how to tell time to the hour
           

Materials:

Harcourt: Math Readers Kit

Harcourt: Grade K Manipulatives and Workmats

Harcourt: Grade K Math Practice Workbook

Harcourt: Grade K Math Student Edition

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In this course, students will:

• Develop their understanding of the six themes of Social Studies: Who We Are, Communities, Work, Our Earth, The USA and Family Stories
• Use online resources to re-teach, reinforce and extend the unit topics
              

Materials:

Scott Foresman: Social Studies K Workbook

Scott Foresman: Unit Big Books

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In this course, students will:

• Explore the following units and topics of Science:
  • Life Science – Plants and Animals
  • Earth Science – Land, Water, Weather and Sun
  • Physical Science – Senses, Sorting Objects, Observing Matter, Sound and Movement
• Participate in hands-on experiments that support lesson concepts such as observing plant growth, modeling animal body structure, exploring the five senses and using online resources for conceptual understanding
             

Materials:

Houghton Mifflin: Science K Notebook

Houghton Mifflin: Science K Independent Unit Books

Houghton Mifflin: Science K Pupil Edition

Grade K Science Kit

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In this course, students will:

• Show progress in their social and emotional development including self-identity, self-control and self-reliance
• Participate in activities to develop abilities to reason, manage conflict and accept responsibility for behavior
• Explore and learn from the environment through a variety of experiences that engage student initiative, creativity and curiosity
• Strengthen social interaction skills such as taking turns, making friends, using please and thank you, engaging with other children and respecting others feelings and rights
• Enable students’ school success by fostering a home-school-community connection and linking parents and teachers to share information about the child, family and school culture
              
  

Materials:

Teacher Developed

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Art

• Initiate curiosity and engagement in learning about Art materials, techniques and processes

• Use Art materials in a safe and responsible manner

• Create Art work through color, line, shape and texture

• Use decision making and problem solving skills in the creation of Art work

• Understand geometric shapes

• Be introduced to several famous artists and their works

• Begin to understand aesthetics and to respect varying opinions

• Understand that many artists are leaders and that artists contribute to the world in many ways

Music

• Sing along with folk songs

• Listen actively to different genres of music

• Understand musical concepts such as high and low, loud and soft, fast and slow and long and short
• Respond to music through movement
• Experience rhythms through body percussion
• Become familiar with instruments and their different tone colors

• Begin to use and interpret iconic symbols for musical concepts

Art and Music K-1 is a multi-age curriculum spanning two grade levels.
         

Materials:

Art Kit

In this course, students will:

• Begin to understand the concept of growth

• Begin to develop an awareness of the main components of a healthy diet

• Identify types and causes of common health problems of children

• Keep a Weekly Activity Journal

• Be introduced to locomotor/non-locomotor skills

• Be introduced to manipulatives

• Be introduced to fitness for health

• Be introduced to social/emotional skills in a PE setting

All course work is aligned to the Pennsylvania Department of Education Standards in Health, Safety and Physical Education. 

Health, Safety and PE K-1 is a multi-age curriculum spanning two grade levels. 

Materials:

MacMillan/McGraw-Hill: Health and Wellness, 2005
www.gozonkers.tv
www.bam.gov
www.brainpopjr.com
www.kidshealth.org

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This is a two-year course, offered as an enrichment option, to expose students to French and Spanish languages and cultures at an early age. Students will be exploring one language for a full year and the other language the following year, in a rotating cycle.

In this course, students will:

• Be introduced to the Spanish and French languages
• Begin to learn the sound system of the two languages
• Learn basic vocabulary such as greetings, colors, food, and family
• Be introduced to the cultures of the Spanish and French speaking worlds
• Learn language through song, video, interactive websites, and more

In order to be considered for enrollment, students must be functioning on or above grade level in Language Arts.

Materials:

Interactive websites

Teacher developed glossary
Audio and Video components

Home Facilitator Involvement Level: 5 (click here for levels) Assistance is required for 90-100% of schoolwork.

Prerequisite: Guidance or Teacher Recommendation

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