Art Curriculum at a Glance

Kindergartners will be refining fine motor skills, through drawing, painting, gluing, and cutting.  Students will also learn how to use tools such as sponges, rollers, straws, and marbles.

First graders will be drawing, painting, sculpting, and building.  Discovering their individuality and enhanced creativity will be major objectives.

Second Grade will be focusing on expressing their feelings, and moods through artwork.  They will learn about different artists and illustrators, and illustrate their own stories. 

Third Graders will also begin to learn art appreciation, where we will focus on describing, relating, interpreting, and valuing art.

Fourth Grade will continue to learn art appreciation, where we will focus on describing, relating, interpreting, and valuing art. They will learn shading and landscape techniques.

Fifth graders will learn about contour, still life, portrait, and perspective drawing.  They will create seasonal art, Native American crafts, and recycled art projects as well as multicultural art projects. 

Sixth grade will study Op art and art history.  Other projects will include seasonal art, paper maché crafts, recycled art projects, facemasks, jewelry, advertising, as well as architectural projects.

Seventh grade drawing techniques will include contour, mass, still life, perspective, and pen and ink.  Students will study art history, become familiar with the local art environment, interior design, and animal paper maché masks.

Eighth graders create seasonal art, architecture, printmaking, line designs, and masks of the world.

 

Challenge Program Curriculum at a Glance

An interdisciplinary process approach will be emphasized through individual and small group work.  Students will investigate new and different processes for solving problems, which will incorporate analysis, synthesis, evaluation, and fluent, flexible creative thought.  Students will participate in the program for a trimester, and may be included in the program in succeeding trimester(s).  Hallmarks of the program will be:

• Small group learning in the areas of critical and creative thinking skills;
• Opportunities for independent study;
• Extension of regular classroom curriculum; and
• The development of a positive sense of self

Latin Curriculum at a Glance

• 100 to 150 Latin words and phrases memorized
• 100 to 150 Latin derivatives
• 1st conjugation and irregular verb “sum” memorized
• 1st and 2nd declensions plus case names memorized
• History of the Roman civilization and why they deserve to be known as the greatest civilization
• How the Romans lived – eg. Homes, family life, food, entertainment, religion, and laws
• Importance of learning Latin
• adjectives
• irregular verb possum-to be able
• 2nd conjugation
• 1st conjugation of future tense
• 2nd conjugation of future tense
• 1st conjugation imperfect
• 2nd conjugation imperfect
• declension of 1st person pronouns
• declension of 2nd person pronouns

Library Curriculum at a Glance

Kindergarten and First Grade students will learn the proper organization of the library media center as well as proper book care and procedure for checking in and out books.  They will learn basic library skills through interactive worksheets and group activities.

Second graders will be taught how to locate a book in the library through ABC order and by searching on our library computers.  They will be taught how to identify characteristics of major literary genres with both the fiction and non-fiction sections of the library over the course of the school year.

Third graders will improve their location skills in the library during the school year and the Dewey Decimal System will be introduced and covered at great length.  They will be re-introduced to the various forms of literature and will be encouraged to read books from different genres.  They will learn about our reference collection and be shown how to use both the encyclopedias and dictionaries in the library through worksheets and team activities.

Fourth graders will become re-acquainted with location skills in the card catalog system.  Power Library will be introduced along with other available internet sources on our library computers.  They will become familiar with the various periodicals in the library and will engage in some fun research and reporting activities.

Fifth graders will use both the card catalog system and Power Library for improving their search skills in the library.  They will work closely with the Dewey Decimal System and our reference collection.  Almanacs and atlases will be used to answer trivia worksheets.  They will be introduced to indexes and taught how to locate information using them.

Sixth graders will refresh basic library skills along with being introduced to our audiovisual materials and equipment.  They will be shown how to operate the equipment and possibly use as accompaniment to a report.  Bibliographies will be introduced and worksheets will be provided so that they become familiar with the structure of a bibliography.

Seventh graders will refresh basic library skills and be able to choose appropriate material to read independently.  They will be expected to use the library as a resource for classroom assignments given by their seventh-grade teacher. 

 

Music Curriculum at a Glance

• study pitch, identify elements of music, listening and vocalization
• study and learn about composers of Baroque, Classical, Romantic and 20th century music
• perform and study theatre arts including choreography styles and all
• other components of theatre.

 

Physical Education Curriculum at a Glance

Primary (K-2): Students will be working on their locomotor and non-locomotor skills, health topics, soccer, volleyball, baseball, dance and many more fun activities.

Intermediate (3-5): Students will be working on teamwork skills, soccer, basketball, and baseball. They will have health and nutrition, dance, and much more.

Junior High (6-8): Students will focus on the rules and skills of many sports. They will be learning more on health and nutrition, fitness, dance, and much more.

Team Building at all levels. All classes will be learning Nutrition and "Healthy Habits"

 

Spanish Curriculum at a Glance

Numbers, colors, shapes, food, weather, clothing, time, body parts, basic skills of communication, basic conversations, grammar, and spelling/vocabulary.

 

Technology Curriculum at a Glance

Kindergarten
Basic operations and concepts
Reading readiness activities using multi-media software
Interactive CD-ROM games and educational websites

First Grade
Interactive CD-ROM games and educational websites
Create a slideshow using multi-media software called KidPixDeluxe3X

Second Grade
Basic operations and concepts including saving of projects to file server
Basic searches on the Internet
Research and creation of cross-curricular multimedia project
Educational websites
Introduction to database

Third Grade
Students will be introduced to formal keyboarding using the Type to Learn program.
Students will further enhance their word processing skills using The Writing Center.
Students will learn how to create a basic spreadsheet.
Students will utilize the Internet for research and learn to perform more complex searches in conjunction with a major project(s). Students will work with Student Writing Center, Storybook Weaver, Thinkin Things 3, Kid Pix Deluxe 3X, etc.

Fourth Grade
Students will continue to enhance their keyboarding skills utilizing the techniques in the Type to Learn program.
Students will utilize the Internet for research purposes and in conjunction with a major project(s).
Students will be introduced to PowerPoint, a presentation software.  Students will design and develop a multimedia PowerPoint presentation based on their studies of PA history.

Fifth Grade
Students will continue to enhance their keyboarding skills utilizing the techniques in the Type to Learn program.
Students will utilize the Internet for research purposes and in conjunction with a major project(s).
Students will continue to enhance their desktop capabilities by "constructing" a castle which requires following specific directions.
Students will focus on designing and developing a brochure on a state based on their 5th grade Social Studies course work. They will use AppleWorks Draw for desktop publishing.

Sixth Grade
Students will continue to enhance their keyboarding skills utilizing the techniques in the Type to Learn program.
Students will utilize the Internet for research purposes and in conjunction with a major project(s).
 Students will be introduced to advanced aspects of Power Point. They will develop a presentation related to their curriculum.
Students will work in cooperative groups to produce a movie related to their curriculum.

Seventh Grade
Students will continue to enhance their keyboarding skills utilizing the techniques in the Type to Learn program.
Students learn more advanced functions and formulas using spreadsheets.
Students will focus on researching a specific topic on the Internet and based on their findings will design and create a PowerPoint presentation.

Eighth Grade
Students will be involved in a major group project for the year using word processing, database, spreadsheet, PowerPoint, desktop publishing and more