Language Arts Reading, writing, listening, speaking, spelling and handwriting are all-important components of language arts. Skills and strategies in each area are modeled, taught and practiced, taking into account the unique needs of each learner. Knowledge and skills are acquired through connected experiences between home, school and community. Students move progressively from concrete to symbolic understanding of math concepts as they investigate, explore, create, share and discuss mathematics. The music program focuses on making music, and listening to and responding to music others have produced.
Students sing, play instruments, move and create music.
They learn to read music, and analyze and evaluate the music of others. Creating music extemporaneously and creating music with an expressive quality Physical Education Physical education is based on learning basic movements, refining these movements into specific activities, incorporating these with other related activities where appropriate and continuing into higher levels of thinking situations, such as using strategies, team work and rule controlled situations. Skills include basic locomotor movement, non-locomotor movement, perceptual movement, manipulatives, and fundamental rope jumping. The science curriculum provides opportunities for students to learn science concepts through hands-on activities. Students learn to observe, compare, collect data, organize and analyze information, and communicate what they have learned.