Elementary Curriculum

Language skills are essential for communication and self-expression, and the skills of reading, writing, listening, speaking, and viewing are taught across all subject areas. At our school, these skills are developed in an integrated way, supported by the Comprehensive Orton-Gillingham Approach in early grades, immersive Spanish instruction, and the AIM program’s use of gestures, drama, and music to build fluency.

Language Arts Standards

Students develop the skills necessary for problem solving with computation being one of the critical tools. Creative thinking skills are also developed as students learn to choose and apply appropriate rules, facts and procedures. Math is also applied to other areas of the curriculum (Language Arts, Music, Physical Education etc.)

Mathematics Standards

The Social Studies curriculum allows students to develop an understanding of their past, present, and future, their environment and their society. Social Studies encourages curiosity and develops an understanding of the changing world. Students engage in real-world activities through transdisciplinary themes.

Social Studies Standards

At the core of the Science curriculum is inquiry. In the PYP there is a commitment to a concept-driven curriculum as a means of supporting the inquiry. In the process of inquiry students are led to observe, recognize and define problems, investigate, report and communicate their findings, analyze and draw conclusions from their results.

Science Standards

Elementary School students have the opportunity to learn about, and experience working with, a variety of robots including Sphero, Lego WeDo and Kibo The Robot.  They learn to control the robots to perform a variety of functions as well as solve challenges.

Elementary School students have the opportunity to learn about Computer Programming through their experience with robotics. 

Technology instruction is guided by the ISTE Student Standards (International Society for Technology in Education) 2016.  Many of the world's most innovative schools use these standards to guide them in 21st Century learning.

The Arts program involves the student in learning about two and three-dimensional art forms. The lessons, appropriate for students’ intellectual and physical maturity, expose the children to the basic elements of design as well as providing opportunities for creativity, original thinking and expression.

Music in the Elementary School is an important part of the total educational experience of the child. Children participate in singing, listening, improvising, moving to music and laying pitched and unpitched instruments. As children actively participate in these musical activities, they develop their innate creativity, as well as discover the world of music that surrounds them.

The goal of the Physical Education Program is to allow children to view themselves as fit, skillful and joyful participants who are not limited to their own cultural activities. The Physical Education program is designed to be holistic in that it enables students to develop physical, intellectual, social and emotional abilities.

Physical Education Standards

Personal and Social Education (PSE) is included in the curriculum to help students learn how to manage and communicate their feelings; make informed choices; be aware of social norms and different perspectives; build healthy relationships; develop strategies to resolve conflicts; develop an appreciation for cultural diversity and show concern for others and the environment.

We use a variety of resources and platforms to develop student social and emotional learning based on CASEL standards.

Personal & Social Education Standards