Curriculum Concepts by Age Level

• Takes turns; shares with others
• Takes responsibility for classroom chores
• Takes care of his/her own belongings
• Respects others’ belongings
• Demonstrates spatial awareness
• Distinguishes between fantasy and reality 
• Abides by Community School’s “Big One”
• Abides by Community School’s procedures, classroom rules, and playground rules
• Understands consequences for not abiding by Community School’s procedures and rules
• Develops an appreciation of others
• Articulates needs and wants in a polite manner
• Develops the skills to work with others in small and large group settings
• Follows one- and two-step oral directions
• Follows standards for conversation
• Arrives at school on time 
• Speaks in an appropriate voice for a given situation
• Participates in class discussions

• Participates in activities to encourage small motor development
• Participates in activities to encourage large motor development
• Participates in creative movement activities
• Speaks so that others can understand 
• Arrives at school well-kempt; practicing good hygiene techniques
• Eats breakfast before arriving at school; eats a healthy fruit break and lunch
• Arrives at school well-rested
• Develops strategies to handle stressful situations
• Participates in a classroom activity for an age appropriate length of time

• Participates in choral speaking and recitations of short poems, rhymes, songs, and stories with patterns
• Participates in creative dramatics

• Recognizes specific books by cover
• Pretends to read books
• Understands that books are handled in particular ways
• Enters into a book-sharing routine with caregivers
• Labels objects in books 
• Looks at a picture in a book and understands it is a symbol for a real object
• Scribbles
• Distinguishes between drawing and writing
• Produces some letter-like forms and scribbles with some features of English writing
• Understands that alphabet letters are a special category of visual graphics that can be individually named
• Recognizes environmental print
• Understands that it is the print that is read in stories
• Understands that different text forms are used for different functions of print (grocery list vs. menu)
• Pays attention to separable and repeating sounds in language 
• Uses new vocabulary and grammatical constructions in own speech
• Shows an interest in books and reading
• Connects stories with real-life experiences
• Asks how and why questions
• Displays reading and writing attempts
• Identifies about ten alphabet letters, especially from own name
• Writes (scribbles) messages as a part of dramatic play

Mathematics

• Recognizes the number of objects in small groups with and without counting
• Understands that number words refer to quantity
• Uses one-to-one correspondence to determine quantity of objects
• Matches written numeral to corresponding number given orally
• Orders objects using ordinal numbers orally
• Discusses relative position of objects (above, below, and next to)
• Draws basic geometric shapes (circle, triangle, square, rectangle, and oval)
• Sorts and classifies objects by similar and different attributes 
• Sorts and classifies objects by measurable attributes (more, less, or equal)
• Identifies measurable attributes such as length, height, and weight 
• Solves problems by making comparisons of objects on the basis of measurable attributes 
• Creates simple patterns 

Science Themes

• Sorting and classifying by attributes
• Senses and sensory words
• Identification and creation of colors
• Textures
• Properties of water
• Basic life needs of plants
• Basic life needs of animals
• Seasons and calendar

Social Studies Themes

• Holidays and cultural studies
• Seasons
• Geography (relative location and simple maps)

Enrichment

• Drama
  • Group Cooperation and Cohesion
    • Focus on tasks and follow directions
    • Work cooperatively with large/small groups as a creative and active participant
  • Awareness
    • Imitate and recreate the world
  • Movement
    • Move in one’s own space and respect the space of others
    • Use imagination to transform one’s self into animals, characters, and natural elements
      
  • Performance Skills
    • Attempt storytelling through dramatic play, pantomime, and echo
    • Perform in the annual class play and Arts Festival
  • Audience Behavior
    • Show respect for the creative efforts of others while performing or being in the audience
• Music
  • Sing echo songs, songs with movement, verse/refrain songs
  • Identify and play classroom instruments
  • Keep a steady beat
  • Improvise and create sound effects for stories on the keyboard
  • Listen and respond to dynamic levels, register differences, and tempo changes in music
  • Listen to and identify selections from Carnival of the Animals and The Nutcracker
  • Participate in a musical presentation
  • Enjoy making and sharing music

• Spanish
  • Language exploration
  • Total Physical Response (TPR) teaching
  • Songs and games
  • Simple conversation
  • Middle School buddy teamwork
  • Cultural exposure to visiting exchange students
  • Cultures and traditions of Spanish-speaking countries
  • Vocabulary
    • Simple greetings
    • Colors
    • Numbers up to 20
    • Animals
    • Shapes
    • Prepositions
    • Opposites
    • Feelings and emotions
    • Fruits, vegetables, and food
    • Body parts
    • Sports
    • Transportation
    • House/rooms
    • Family members
    • Clothing and professions

• Three-Five year old concepts plus:
• Recognizes his/her own name
• Prints his/her own name
• Identifies parts of a book and their functions
• Begins to track print when listening to a familiar text being read or when rereading own writing
• “Reads” familiar texts emergently
• Recognizes and can name all uppercase and lowercase letters
• Understands that the sequence of letters in a written word represents the sequence of sounds (phonemes) in a spoken word
• Recognizes some common words by sight
• Uses new vocabulary and grammatical constructions in own speech
• Makes appropriate switches from oral to written language styles
• Notices when simple sentences fail to make sense
• Connects information and events in texts to life and life experiences in text
• Retells, reenacts, or dramatizes stories or parts of stories
• Identifies and discusses elements of a story (characters, setting, problem, and solution)
• Listens attentively to books being read to class
• Names some book titles and authors
• Demonstrates familiarity with a number of types or genres of text
• Correctly answers questions about stories read aloud
• Makes predictions based on illustrations or portions of stories
• Demonstrates understanding that spoken words consist of sequences of phonemes
• Sorts words orally according to shared beginning, ending, or medial sounds
• Given spoken segments, merges them into a meaningful target word
• Given a spoken word, produces another word that rhymes with it
• Independently writes many uppercase and lowercase letters
• Uses phonemic awareness and letter knowledge to spell independently (kid spell)
• Writes (unconventionally) to express own meaning
• Builds a repertoire of some conventionally spelled words
• Shows awareness of distinction between “kid writing” and conventional writing
• Writes most letters and some words when they are dictated

Mathematics

• Creates, interprets, and discusses picture and bar graphs
• Solves word problems orally using basic addition and subtraction 
• Identifies and creates patterns
• Recognizes the number in a small set
• Counts the numbers in combined sets
• Counts forward and backward 
• Writes numerals in order 
• Skip counts by twos, fives, and tens 
• Identifies basic geometric shapes 
• Identifies basic three-dimensional shapes such as spheres, cubes, and cylinders
• Identifies measuring instruments such as a clock, thermometer, scale, calendar, and ruler
• Tells time to the nearest hour on an analog and on a digital clock
• Identifies, by name, types of United States currency 
• Recognizes and compares basic fractions

Science Themes

• Sorting and classifying by attributes
• Senses and sensory words
• Identification and creation of colors
• Textures
• Properties of water
• Basic life needs of plants
• Basic life needs of animals
• Seasons and calendar

Social Studies Themes

• Holidays and cultural studies
• Seasons
• Geography (relative location and simple maps)

Enrichment

• Visual Art
  • Learn about and use art tools in a safe, responsible manner
  • Identify and draw differences in-line
  • Recognize and draw geometric and free-form shapes
  • Talk about one’s own art and that of other artists
  • Communicate ideas that are personally important
• Drama
  • Group Cooperation and Cohesion
    • Focus on tasks and follow directions
    • Work cooperatively with large/small groups as a creative and active participant
  • Awareness
    • Imitate and recreate the world
  • Movement
    • Move in one’s own space and respect the space of others
    • Use imagination to transform one’s self into animals, characters, and natural elements
      
  • Performance Skills
    • Attempt storytelling through dramatic play, pantomime, and echo
    • Perform in the annual class play and Arts Festival
  • Audience Behavior
    • Show respect for the creative efforts of others while performing or being in the audience
• Music
  • Sing echo songs, songs with movement, verse/refrain songs
  • Identify and play classroom instruments
  • Keep a steady beat
  • Improvise and create sound effects for stories on the keyboard
  • Listen and respond to dynamic levels, register differences and tempo changes in music
  • Echo long and short patterns using quarter notes, quarter rests, and eighth notes
  • Learn the music alphabet
  • Listen to and identify themes and instruments in Peter and the Wolf
  • Listen to and identify selections from The Nutcracker
  • Participate in a musical presentation
  • Enjoy making and sharing music

• Technology
  • Understand what a computer is and what it can do
  • Understand what a website is and that information can be found on websites all over the world
  • Understand what a tablet is and what it can doUse the mouse to click, drag and drop
  • Identify peripheral devices and their purpose
  • Close programs on the computer or apps on the iPad independently
  • Use printer (with teacher guidance)
  • Use children’s software and websites independently
  • Understand the concept of copy/paste and cut/paste
  • Discuss appropriate behavior for the use of technology at school and elsewhere, and how to avoid the consequences of inappropriate use
  • Identify examples of cyber-bullying
  • Understand the importance of not sharing passwords with anyone except a trusted adult
  • Understand the risks and dangers of online play, and that just like in real life, a trusted adult should be consulted for any decisions
  • Understand that an adult should always be consulted prior to downloading anything – a song, program, app, picture, or any other file
  • Identify various reasons people use websites
  • Apply basic step-by-step problem-solving skills to programming games and activities
  • Comprehend and apply basic engineering process to small-scale problems (2-3 step problems, with teacher guidance)
  • Create music using various computer programs and iPad apps
  • Create artwork using various computer programs and iPad apps
• Spanish
  • Expanded conversational skills
  • Total Physical Response (TPR) teaching
  • Songs and games
  • Vocabulary games on iPad
  • Cultural exposure to visiting exchange students
  • Vocabulary
    • Expanded greetings
      
    • Expanded conversational skills
      
    • Numbers up to 50
      
    • Commands
      
    • Prepositions
      
    • Opposites
      
    • Action words
      
    • House/rooms
      
    • Family members
      
    • Feelings and emotions
      
    • Tasting and cooking food
      
    • Ordering food in a restaurant
    • Date, days, months, and other calendar vocabulary
      
    • Weather
      
    • City and neighborhood
      
    • Names/maps of Spanish speaking countries
      
    • Holidays and traditions

• Takes turns; shares with others
• Takes responsibility for classroom chores
• Takes care of his/her own belongings
• Respects others’ belongings
• Distinguishes between fantasy and reality 
• Abides by Community School’s “Big One”
• Abides by Community School’s procedures, classroom rules, and playground rules
• Develops an understanding of and demonstrates appropriate field trip behavior 
• Understands consequences for not abiding by Community School’s procedures and rules
• Develops an acceptance of others
• Interacts appropriately with children of different ages during buddy programs
• Articulates needs and wants in a polite manner
• Develops the skills to work with others in small and large group settings
• Follows three- to five-step oral directions
• Follows standards for conversation
• Arrives at school on time 
• Speaks in an appropriate voice for a given situation
• Participates in class discussions
• Demonstrates responsibility for class work and homework 
• Attempts new challenges

• Participates in activities to encourage small motor development
• Participates in activities to encourage large motor development
• Participates in creative movement activities
• Speaks so that others can understand 
• Arrives at school well-kempt; practices good hygiene
• Eats breakfast before arriving at school; eats a healthy fruit break and lunch
• Arrives at school well-rested
• Develops strategies to handle stressful situations
• Participates in a classroom activity for an age appropriate length of time

• Engages in a variety of literacy activities voluntarily
• Counts the number of syllables in a word
• Decodes one-syllable words
• Uses letter-sound correspondence to sound out unknown words when reading
• Recognizes common, irregularly spelled sight words
• Blends or segments the phonemes in most one-syllable words
• Monitors own reading and self-corrects when identified word does not fit with cues provided by the letters in the word or the context surrounding the word
• Develops a reading vocabulary of 300-500 sight words and easily sounded-out words
• Reads and comprehends both fiction and nonfiction that is developmentally appropriate
• Reads and understands simple written instructions
• Predicts and justifies what will happen next in stories
• Discusses prior knowledge of topics in expository texts
• Uses how, why, and what-if questions to discuss nonfiction texts
• Describes new information gained from texts in own words
• Distinguishes whether simple sentences are incomplete or are illogical
• Answers simple written comprehension questions based on the material read
• Spells correctly three- and four-letter short vowel words
• Creates own written texts for others to read
• Composes fairly readable first drafts using appropriate parts of the writing process 
• Uses invented spelling or phonics-based knowledge to spell independently
• Demonstrates spelling consciousness or sensitivity to conventional spelling 
• Uses basic punctuation and capitalization 
• Begins cursive handwriting
• Identifies and uses various parts of speech orally and in writing
• Produces a variety of types of compositions using printed text, illustrations, and other graphics
• Makes reasonable judgments about what to include in written products
• Discusses ways to clarify and refine own writing and that of others
• Attends to spelling, mechanics, and presentation for final products
• Produces a variety of types of compositions (e.g., stories, reports, correspondence)
• Studies and composes various forms of poetry
• Participates in dramatizations, oral presentations, fantasy play, etc. 
• Compares and contrasts live drama productions with classroom literature studies

• Recalls basic addition and subtraction facts
• Identifies and writes numerals up to 100
• Self-corrects inverted numeral formations
• Skip counts by twos, fives, and tens
• Identifies odd and even numbers
• Identifies place value to 1000
• Identifies place value to 10,000
• Compares numbers using comparative symbols (<, >, and =)
• Adds columns of single digit numbers
• Adds columns of double-digit numbers without regrouping
• Adds columns of double-digit numbers with regrouping
• Subtracts columns of single digit numbers
• Subtracts columns of double-digit numbers without regrouping
• Subtracts columns of double-digit numbers with regrouping
• Measures using appropriate instrument
• Compares measurements
• Determines area and perimeter
• Tells time to the half hour and quarter hour
• Tells time in five-minute increments
• Recognizes United States currency
• Determines value of a variety of bills and coins; makes basic change
• Recognizes and compares basic fractions 
• Identifies symmetry and congruency 
• Creates, interprets, and discusses picture, pie, and bar graphs
• Determines appropriate mathematical operation needed to solve simple word problems given orally or in writing
• Explores uses of a calculator 
• Uses sets of manipulatives to determine basic multiplication facts

• Scientific method of inquiry
• Identification and use of scientific tools
• Weather patterns 
• Conservation and environmental awareness
• Life needs of plants
• Life needs of animals
• Life processes
• Natural cycles 
• Seasonal changes and their causes
• Motion (push, pull, and vibrate)
• States of matter
• Magnetism

• Multicultural awareness and appreciation 
• Relation of seasonal events to history
• Geographical landforms
• Historical perspective on everyday life
• Historical representation using timelines
• Simple cause and effect
• Maps and map symbols  

Visual Arts

• Respond to feelings about art based on own life experiences
  
• Employ personal expression when viewing art
  
• See the difference between 2-D shapes and 3-D forms
  
• Discuss subject matter in art
  
• Understand differences in still life, portrait, landscape, and seasons
  
• Become more aware of size differences
  
• Become aware of themes in art from various cultures
  Recognize differences in art media

Drama

• Group Cooperation and Cohesion
  • Focus on tasks and follow directions
    
  • Work cooperatively with large/small groups as a creative and active participant
• Awareness
  • Imitate and recreate the world
    
• Attend live theatre presentations
• Movement
  • Move in one’s own space and respect the space of others
• Show control when doing rhythmic and creative movements
• Performance Skills
  • Develop and practice storytelling skills using texts, improvisation, pantomime, and echo
    
  • Use volume, expression, and enunciation in class work and performance
    
  • Perform in the annual class play and Arts Festival
• Audience Behavior
  • Show respect for the creative efforts of others while performing or being in the audience

Music

• Sing a variety of songs from different genres, to include simple two-part music such as a round or partner songs
  
• Read and perform quarter note, quarter rest, eighth note, and half note patterns
  
• Read and follow a listening map
  
• Complete introductory lessons in the keyboard lab
  
• Learn the numbers of the lines and spaces on the music staff
  
• Identify the four instrument families (brass, woodwind, string, and percussion) and recognize, by sight and sound instruments, in each family
  
• Listen and respond to dynamic levels, tempo changes, register differences and musical themes in a variety of music
  
• Learn how music is incorporated in history and culture
  
• Participate in a musical presentation
  
• Enjoy making and sharing music

Technology

Preschool – lower elementary curriculum, plus:

• Identify and use: Power, Volume, Disc, USB
  
• Use the mouse to click, drag and drop, and right click objects
  
• Open programs on the computer or apps on the iPad with teacher supervision
  
• Identify the following icons: Print, Back, Refresh, Undo
  
• Identify various reasons people use websites
  
• Use technology tools, such as the Internet, to do research
  
• Understand concepts of copy/paste and cut/paste
  
• Can copy/paste or cut/paste (with teacher guidance)
  
• Use designated language, pictures, or concepts to create a simple computer program
  
• Use typical office software (word processor, presentation creator) with teacher guidance
  
• Create posters, videos, and infographics to share information and ideas
  
• Understand that they should always have an adult with them when they go online and that they should never share personal information with strangers
  
• Understand the importance of not being a cyber-bully and ways to deal with and prevent cyber-bullying

Spanish

• Pronunciation rules
  
• Alphabet
  
• Expanded conversation skills
  
• Geography of Spanish-speaking countries
  
• Cultural exposure through exchange students
  
• Vocabulary games on iPad
• Vocabulary
  
  • Numbers up to 500
    
  • Pronunciation of alphabet
    
  • Days, months
    
  • Dates of yesterday, today, and tomorrow
    
  • Calendar vocabulary
    
  • Weather
    
  • Seasons
    
  • Tasting and cooking food
    
  • Ordering food in a restaurant
    
  • Classroom and school vocabulary
    
  • Cultures and traditions of Spanish-speaking countries

• Takes turns; shares with others
• Takes responsibility for classroom chores
• Takes care of his/her own belongings
• Respects others’ belongings
• Distinguishes between fantasy and reality 
• Abides by Community School’s “Big One”
• Abides by Community School’s procedures, classroom rules, and playground rules
• Understands consequences for not abiding by Community School’s procedures and rules
• Develops an understanding of and demonstrates appropriate field trip behavior 
• Develops an appreciation of others
• Interacts appropriately with younger and older children
• Articulates needs and wants in a polite manner
• Develops the skills to work with others in small and large group settings
• Follows three- to five-step oral directions
• Follows written directions
• Organizes time wisely
• Organizes materials necessary for class work and homework 
• Follows standards for conversation
• Arrives at school on time 
• Speaks in an appropriate voice for a given situation
• Participates in class discussions
• Demonstrates responsibility for class work and homework 
• Expresses opinions in non-threatening manner
• Works toward consensus and compromise
• Demonstrates trustworthiness
• Attempts new challenges
• Accepts and acts upon constructive criticism 
• Identifies personal goals (with guidance from teachers and parents/caregivers)
• Determines a plan to reach personal goals 

• Participates in activities to encourage small motor development
• Participates in activities to encourage large motor development
• Participates in creative movement activities
• Speaks so that others can understand 
• Arrives at school well-kempt; practices good hygiene
• Eats breakfast before arriving at school; eats a healthy fruit break and lunch
• Arrives at school well-rested
• Develops strategies to handle stressful situations
• Participates in a classroom activity for an age appropriate length of time

• Alphabetizes a list of words
• Identifies and utilizes a dictionary, thesaurus, table of contents, and index
• Identifies and uses various parts of speech orally and in writing
• Identifies compound words, contractions, possessives, and plurals
• Identifies synonyms, antonyms, and homonyms

• Reads developmentally appropriate text aloud with fluency and comprehension 
• Uses letter-sound correspondence knowledge and structural analysis to decode words
• Develops an appreciation for reading
• Reads a variety of literature
• Reads longer fictional selections and chapter books independently
• Participates in dramatizations, oral presentations, fantasy play, recitations etc. 
• Identifies specific words or wordings that cause comprehension difficulties
• Summarizes major points from fiction and nonfiction texts
• Interprets underlying theme or message in fiction
• Asks how, why, and what-if questions in interpreting nonfictions texts
• Locates textual information to support opinions, predictions, and conclusions
• Distinguishes between cause and effect, fact and opinion, main idea, and supporting details
• Infers word meaning from taught roots, prefixes, and suffixes
• Correctly spells previously studied words and spelling patterns in own writing
• Begins to incorporate literacy words and language patterns in own writing
• Writes legibly
• Writes a well-organized paragraph of at least five complete sentences using appropriate punctuation and capitalization
• Uses, with guidance, all aspects of the writing process in producing own compositions and reports
• Combines information from multiple sources in writing reports
• Implements, with assistance, editing and revisions to clarify and refine own writing
• Uses figurative language orally and in writing
• Presents and discusses own writing with other students and responds helpfully to other students’ compositions
• Independently reviews work for spelling, mechanics, and presentation 
• Produces a variety of written work in a variety of formats including multimedia forms

• Recalls basic addition and subtraction facts
• Rounds whole numbers to the nearest 10 and 100
• Identifies place value to 1,000,000
• Compares numbers using comparative symbols (<, >, and =)
• Adds columns of single digit numbers
• Adds columns of double-digit numbers without regrouping
• Adds columns of double-digit numbers with regrouping
• Subtracts columns of single digit numbers
• Subtracts columns of double-digit numbers without regrouping
• Subtracts columns of double-digit numbers with regrouping
• Estimates with some accuracy
• Defines and determines probability
• Solves for mean, median, and mode
• Recognizes and compares basic fractions 
• Compares fractions with like denominators
• Simplifies fractions
• Adds and subtracts fractions with like denominators
• Changes mixed numerals to improper fractions and vice versa
• Multiplies and divides fractions with like denominators
• Finds percent
• Adds, subtracts, multiplies, and divides decimals
• Recognizes the relationship between decimals, fractions, and percents 
• Measures using appropriate instrument
• Compares measurements using length, weight, and volume
• Determines area and perimeter
• Identifies, creates, and measures lines, line segments, angles, and rays
• Tells time from an analog and a digital clock
• Explores uses of a calculator 
• Determines value of a variety of bills and coins; makes change
• Identifies symmetry and congruency 
• Uses manipulatives to enhance understanding of spatial relations
• Identifies corners, faces, and edges in plane and solid geometry
• Creates, interprets, and discusses picture, pie, and bar graphs
• Determines appropriate mathematical operation needed to solve word problems given orally or in writing
• Uses logical reasoning to solve problems
• Recalls multiplication facts through ten
• Finds factors
• Solves 2-digit by 1-digit multiplication problems
• Solves 2-digit by 2-digit multiplication problems
• Relates multiplication and division as inverse operations
• Solves 2-digit by 1-digit division problems 
• Identifies order of operations and variables (basic pre-algebra equations)

• Scientific method
• Identification and use of scientific tools
• Conservation and environmental awareness
• Seasonal changes and their causes
• Water cycle
• Solar system
• Motion (push, pull, and vibrate)
• Simple machines
• Energy sources
• Behavioral and physical adaptations of animals
• Food chains

• Multicultural awareness and appreciation 
• Interaction between social, political, and economic life in areas studied
• Geographical landforms
• Historical perspective on everyday life
• Historical representation using timelines
• Simple cause and effect
• Maps and map symbols including latitude and longitude
• Virginia history
• Citizenry; interaction between rights and responsibilities
• Importance of current events

Visual Arts

• Understand foreground, middle ground, and background
  
• Develop personal use of color
  
• Comprehend color scheme within artwork
  
• Become aware of articulation of parts of the human figure
  
• Use facial proportions correctly
  
• Create illusion of space through placement, size, and value
  
• Understand that artists and cultures express themselves through artwork
  
• Show various styles of art
  
• Discuss issues of aesthetics

Drama

• Group Cooperation and Cohesion
  • Focus on tasks and follow directions
    
• Work cooperatively with large/small groups as a creative and active participant
  
• Awareness
  
  • Imitate and recreate the world
    
  • Attend live theatre presentations
    
• Movement
  • Move in one’s own space and respect the space of others
    
• Show control when doing rhythmic and creative movements
• Performance Skills
  • Develop skills in staging a performance, including stage management, directing, script-writing, and narrating
    
  • Use volume, expression, and enunciation in class work and performance
    
• Perform in the annual class play and Arts Festival
• Audience Behavior
  • Show respect for the creative efforts of others while performing or being in the audience

Music

• Sing from memory a variety of songs, to include various genres, action songs, verse/refrain songs, and multi-cultural songs
  
• Read and perform quarter note, eighth note, half note, whole note, quarter rest, half rest and whole rest patterns
  
• Learn to play the recorder, using correct fingering, hand position and with songs of increasing difficulty
  
• Learn to play the ukulele, playing open string melodies, C scale songs, and songs using the C, G, and F chords
  
• Complete introductory lessons in the keyboard lab
  
• Compose music using pre-notation
  
• Learn the names of the lines and spaces of the treble clef staff
  
• Follow a music score to sing or perform music
  
• Introduction to music technology, using free music programs and apps, to include notation software, mixing and sequencing programs
  
• Describe music by using appropriate vocabulary to describe tempo, register and mood
  
• Identify the four instrument families (brass, woodwind, string, and percussion) and recognize, by sight and sound, instruments in each family
  
• Listen and respond to dynamic levels, register differences, themes, and steady beat in a variety of music
• Identify simple music forms
  
• Demonstrate appropriate audience behavior for a musical performance
  
• Learn how music is incorporated in history and culture
  
• Participate in a musical presentation
• Enjoy making and sharing music

Technology

Middle Elementary concepts plus:

• Basic understanding of hardware components of computing devices and what components are for
  
• Understand the importance of finding credible sources on the Internet
  
• Identify the most appropriate technology tool(s) for a task, create a plan to complete the task, and use tool(s) appropriately
  
• Able to do basic touch typing –Cite Internet sources (text, video, image, etc.) appropriately
  
• Identify, add and use peripheral devices appropriately
  
• Able to copy/paste, cut/paste, save as/insert appropriately across projects
  
• Able to Save, Save As, Open, and Close files correctly
  
• Understand the risks and dangers of online play and social media sharing (Media/Digital Literacy)
  
• Use designated language, pictures, or concepts to create and run a program
  
• Open and close programs on the computer/apps on the iPad independently
  
• Comprehend and apply basic engineering process to small-scale problems
  
• Identify common icons across programs & use them appropriately
  
• Identify the following icons: Print, Back, Refresh, Undo
  
• Use printers appropriately
  
• Use cameras independently
  
• Create music using various computer programs & apps
  
• Uses age-appropriate software and websites independently
  
• Can move files from device to device using flash drives, email, cloud storage, CDs, or other methods
  
• Use typical office software (word, presentation, spreadsheet to

Spanish

• Reading and writing in Spanish
  
• Beginning grammar
• Geography and history of Spanish-speaking countries
  
• Cultural exposure through exchange students
  
• Spelling and vocabulary games
  
• Student-directed conversation
  
• Student-directed weather reports
  
• Read and translate paragraphs
• Vocabulary
  • Numbers up to one million
    
  • Cultures and traditions of Spanish-speaking countries

• Takes responsibility for classroom chores
• Takes care of his/her own belongings
• Respects others’ belongings
• Abides by Community School’s “Big One”
• Abides by Community School’s procedures, classroom rules, and playground rules
• Understands consequences for not abiding by Community School’s procedures and rules
• Respects and is considerate of others
• Articulates needs and wants in a polite manner
• Articulates needs and wants in an effective manner
• Demonstrates ability to work independently and with others in a small and large group settings
• Follows multi-step oral directions
• Follows written directions
• Organizes time wisely in order to meet deadlines
• Organizes materials necessary for class work and homework 
• Demonstrates responsibility for class work and homework 
• Demonstrates appropriate conversational, discussion, and debating skills
• Expresses opinions an appropriate manner
• Works toward consensus and compromise
• Demonstrates trustworthiness
• Attempts new challenges
• Accepts constructive criticism 
• Identifies personal goals (with guidance from teachers and parents/caregivers) and creates a plan to reach them
• Recognizes their roles in a variety of communities 

• Understands benefits of exercise for physical and mental well-being
• Participates in creative movement activities
• Speaks so that others can understand 
• Arrives at school well-kempt; practices good hygiene 
• Eats breakfast before arriving at school; eats a healthy fruit break and lunch
• Arrives at school well-rested and on time
• Develops strategies to handle stressful situations
• Participates in a classroom activity for an age appropriate length of time
• Identifies and avoids risky lifestyle choices

• Basic operations:  accurate computation and appropriate application to word problems
• Automatic recall of multiplication and division facts
• Decimals:  conceptual understanding, round and compare values, multiplication, and division 
• Problemsolving:  set up a plan, apply a variety of strategies, document work, and check solutions
• Fractions:  addition and subtraction with like and unlike denominators, multiplication and division, and simplification 
• Statistics and probability:  identify landmarks (mean, median, mode, and range), construct and interpret graphs (line, bar, circle, box-and-whisker plot, and stem-and-leaf)
• Identifies patterns and functions 
• Ratios and proportion
• Geometry:  classification of angles and triangles, coordinate graphing, concepts of parallel and perpendicular, define and identify quadrilaterals and polygons, and understand the concepts of similarity and correspondence
• Pre-algebra skills:  order of operations, operations with integers, set up and solve equations, and simplify algebraic expressions
• Measurement:  perimeter, area of regular plane figures and irregular polygons, volume of solid figures, circumference and area of circles, standard and metric length, standard and metric weight/mass, liquid volume, standard and metric; temperature, Celsius and Fahrenheit and conversions

• Variables and expressions
• Properties:  distributive, commutative, associative, identity, and equality
• Rational numbers:  comparing, ordering, adding, and subtracting
• Integers and inequalities and the number line
• Problem-solving strategies
• Solving equations with more than one operation and with the variable on both sides
• Ratios and proportions
• Percent:  calculating percent change, discounts, tax, and interest rates
• Solving and graphing inequalities
• Scientific notation 
• Polynomials:  adding, subtracting, and multiplying
• Multiplying and dividing rational expressions
• Dividing polynomials 
• Factoring quadratic equations
• Graphing linear relations
• Slope of a line, writing and graphing slope-intercept equations
• Statistics and probability 

Same as 1st/2nd year math, plus:

• Set up and solve equations
• Applied graphing
• Mathematical reasoning

Foundations

• Euclid’s propositions
• Objects, figures, and solids
• Mathematical logic
• Deductive reasoning
• Direct and Indirect Proof

Triangles

• Congruent triangles
• Similarity
• Relationships within triangles
• Proportional parts and parallel lines
• Points of concurrency
• Trigonometry
• Special right triangles
  

Polygons and Quadrilaterals

• Definitions and classification
• Transformations

Other Topics

• Area, surface area, volume
• Circles
• Tangents and secants
• Constructions

Metric measurement

• Magnets
• Electricity
• Construction
• Simple chemistry
• Matter
• Physics

Scientific Method

• Observing, inferring, identifying, and manipulating variables
• Predicting and hypothesizing outcomes
• Organizing, graphing, and interpreting data
• Designing experiments and surveys

Experimentation

• Using the scientific method
• Recording observations
• Working independently and in groups

Written Communication

• Maintain a legible lab book to record all experimental information
• Date, title, hypothesis, purpose, results, and conclusion

Earth Science

• Planetary science
• Formation of the solar system
• Plate tectonics
• Physiographic regions of Virginia
• Classification of rocks
• Historical geology
• Paleontology
• Meteorology
• Oceanography

Life Science

• Taxonomy and classification
• Allopatric speciation
• The species concept
• Survey of the animal kingdom
• Biology of flowering plants
• Energy flow of ecosystems
• Population biology
• Biomes and ecosystems
• Animal behavior

• Develops an appreciation for reading 
• Reads a variety of literature
• Analyzes literature to understand plot structure, character development, underlying meanings, conflict, theme, motif, metaphor, descriptive language, etc. 
• Analyzes literature, using support from texts to generate opinions, predictions, and conclusions
• Compares and contrasts various works of literature
• Recognizes that writing is a multi-step process; organizing ideas, creating a rough draft, proofreading, rewriting, and critique 
• Develops and applies knowledge of grammar and mechanics in writing
• Writes in a variety of expository styles including literary critique, historical essay, persuasive essay, and personal essay
• Writes both creative and informative pieces; understands different purposes for writing
• Gives oral presentations and creates other projects to demonstrate knowledge of material read and discussed 
• Understanding poetic techniques and devices
• Utilizes a library system to find resources
• Utilizes the Internet, safely and effectively, for research purposes
• Researches independently and writes research report (skims materials for an overview, develops notes that include concepts, paraphrases, and summarizes; organizes informational charts, maps, and graphs)
• References and cites sources appropriately
• Reflects on writing and reading progress; sets appropriate goals
• Views and participates in dramatic performances 
• Recognizes that the English language is an amalgam of multiple languages and that spelling reflects these influences 

Four-year loop of the following themes:

1. Ancient Civilizations

2. Early American History (pre-Civil War)

3. Later American History (post-Civil War)

4. Contemporary Global Studies

The following skills apply:

• Analyze the development of societies 
• Principles and origins of the US form of government 
• Principles and origins of other forms of governments 
• Recognize and appreciate cultural diversity 
• Correlation between historical cycles and current events 
• Understand that history is a continuum of small actions that lead to greater events 
• Connection between politics and societal history 
• Proficiency in interpreting maps 
• Use the Internet to research information 
• Write an organized and coherent paper on an assigned topic 
• Present information in a creative and synthesized manner 
• Conduct historical research with primary and secondary sources 
• Synthesize researched information into a paraphrased narrative 
• Answer factual and inferential questions about readings 
• Reference and cite sources appropriately

5th/6th loop

• Emphasis on communication, writing, reading, and translating 
• Weekly homework and journal writing 
• Expanding vocabulary 
• Verb conjugation 
• Grammar and sentence structure 
• Cultural traditions and exposure through exchange students 
• Technology research and paper

7th/8th loop

• Increased emphasis on conversation, writing, reading, and translating 
• Weekly homework and journals 
• Expanding vocabulary 
• Verb conjugation 
• Grammar 
• Student-directed reading and translating of short stories 
• Cultural traditions and exposure through exchange students 
• Research projects and presentations

Visual Arts

• Compare and recognize differences in artwork from a variety of cultures
  
• Recognize the artist’s intention in using images and color to create mood
  
• Identify symbols, natural images, and objects used to create artwork
  
• Develop abstract thinking through 3-D projects
  
• Understand balance, space, and emphasis within artwork
  
• Transform personal experiences into art forms
• To show depth, identify and use:
  • varied line quality
    
  • value differences
    
  • complementary colors
    
  • formal and informal balance
    
  • scale relationship
    
  • perspective
    
  • diminishing size
    
  • color

Drama

• Group Cooperation and Cohesion
  • Focus on tasks and follow directions
    
  • Work cooperatively with large/small groups as a creative and active participant
• Awareness
  • Develop concepts about self, human relationships, and the environment by participating in role-play
    
  • Explore the motivations of characters’ actions
    
  • Analyze emotional responses to situations
    
  • Interpret playwrights’ intents
    
• Attend live theatre presentations
  
• Movement
  • Move in one’s own space and respect the space of others
  • Show control when doing rhythmic and creative movements
• Performance Skills
  • Develop skills in staging a performance, including stage management, directing, script-writing, and narrating
    
  • Explore the physical theatre through neutral and character masks
    
  • Use volume, expression, and enunciation in class work and performance
    
  • Perform in the annual class play and Arts Festival
• Audience Behavior
  • Show respect for the creative efforts of others while performing or being in the audience

Music

• Listen/analyze/describe music related to the annual school theme and/or the middle school core curriculum
  
• Listen/analyze/describe dynamic levels, register differences, themes, and tempo in music from difference genres, periods, and cultures
  
• Listen/analyze/describe music by using appropriate vocabulary to describe tempo, instrumentation, form, dynamics, articulation, register, and mood
  
• Demonstrate appropriate audience behavior for a musical performance
  
• Read, write and perform quarter note, eighth note, whole note, quarter rest, half rest, and whole rest patterns
  
• Read and perform music on the treble staff
  
• Identify musical symbols, including notes, rests, expression marks, and elements of the musical score
  
• Develop skills with music technology, using free music programs and apps, to include notation software, mixing and sequencing programs
  
• Complete lessons in the keyboard lab
  
• Accompany songs using instruments or keyboards
  
• Learn how music is incorporated in history and culture
  
• Participate (on a volunteer basis) in a choir and/or pop band
  
• Participate in song with dance, movement and specific choreography
  
• Participate in a musical presentation

Technology

Lower, middle and upper elementary curriculum, plus:

• Identify the most appropriate technology tool(s) for a task, create a plan to complete the task, and use tool(s) appropriately
  
• Able to do basic touch typing
  
• Cite Internet sources (text, video, image, etc.) appropriately
  
• Able to copy/paste, cut/paste, save as/insert appropriately across projects
  
• Understand the risks and dangers of online play and social media sharing (Media/Digital Literacy)
  
• Use designated language, pictures, or concepts to create and run a program
  
• Identify common icons across programs & use them appropriately
  
• Use printers appropriately
  
• Use cameras independently
  
• Uses age-appropriate software and websites independently
  
• Can move files from device to device using flash drives, email, cloud storage, CDs, or other methods
  
• Use typical office software (word, presentation, spreadsheet to complete assignments on various devices