Academics
Required Courses
Reading
The
reading curriculum includes learning the elements of stories, focusing
in on
thirteen skills needed for reading comprehension. The students will
be involved in the Accelerated Reader program requiring sixty minutes
of reading related activities everyday. The curriculum is separated
from language arts allowing us to focus on the area individually.
Language
Arts
The language
arts curriculum includes writing, grammar and spelling. A special emphasis
is placed on descriptive and clarification writing. Skills and activities
are integrated through different types of literature.
Mathematics
Mathematics
continues the strands of the standard course of study:
numeration and numerical operations, spatial sense, measurement, geometry,
patterns, functions relationships, data, probability and statistics.
Science
Science
is characterized by a continuation of the utilization of skills and
the development
of major science concepts that began at the primary level. Balanced
coverage is given to such broad areas of science as living things,
matter, energy, space exploration and ecology.
Social
Studies
The social
studies curriculum includes the study of history, geography,
and culture in early civilizations, Europe, Africa, and Asia. The political
and economic systems of modern cultures of the are eastern hemisphere are analyzed
and compared with those of the United States.
Physical
Education
This program is
an inegral part of the curriculum for all students. It is a definite
and functional medium of education that aims to develop the pupil's
social, emotional, and mental capacities to the optimum. Students
will have to dress out on gym days. Students will also be expected
to take showers after gym classes.
Health
This class will
promote and maintain students physical, emotional, and social well
being. More than that, it examines students lifetime role in contributing
to a more healthful environment for everybody. We hope to stimulate
students interests and challenge their abilities as they pursue
a course of health.
Take a look at our Elective Page to learn about Elective Classes!
