The curriculum covers the interactions of living things, light and color, and the states of matter. Other areas of investigation include the stages of the earth's development, dinosaurs and fossils, and how germs affect our bodies. Government and community organizations are studied extensively. Group membership, various communities, land forms, bodies of water, early American history, citizenship and multicultural interactions are covered. There is an emphasis on geography skills, including reading maps, charts, globes, grids, pictographs, and time lines.
Students also learn to make logical predictions and determine cause and effect.
The variety of illustrations shown in Caldecott winners is shared. Spelling the parts of the book and the names of the people involved in producing a book is practiced during the second part of the school year. The electronic card catalog and its print counterpart is introduced as a tool that can be used to find information in any Media Center. Our physical education curriculum is comprised of basic locomotor and nonlocomotor skills, spatial awareness skills, balance activities, rhythms and dance, educational gymnastics, and basic sports skills such as throwing, catching, striking, chasing, fleeing and dodging. Each physical skill is presented in a manner that will foster independent thinking, cooperation, sportsmanship and fair play.