Curriculum
Writing: We have two tools that we use for our writing program. (1) Write from the Beginning is a developmental writing program for students K-5. The focus of the program is to give students the skills necessary for age-appropriate writing instruction and achievement.
(2) Thinking Maps are used in order to teach students how to develop and organize their ideas for writing.
Math:
McGraw-Hill My Math is written to meet the Common Core State Standards.
Customized for the way teachers teach, personalized for the way students learn,
and individualized to maximize student success.McGraw-Hill My Math is truly
"Made for You".Our Lessons - Your Success
Written to meet the CCSS, McGraw-Hill My Math provides a colorful and intuitive
lesson format that is engaging and kid-friendly, making math fun and memorable.
Our Tools - Your Approach
McGraw-Hill My Math Digital Tools let you customize the math content allowing
you to plan, sequence, and deliver the instruction in a way that works best for you
and your students.
Our Program - Your Learning
McGraw-Hill My Math is a completely consumable program where each student
interacts with the text in multiple ways throughout the learning cycle. Personalized
vocabulary, student created examples, online games, and downloadable apps that
move students from learning abstract concepts to concepts they can apply.
Reading:
McGraw Hill (Wonders)
The Power of Connection Wonders is a comprehensive K-6 ELA/ELD program built on your new standards. Through its intentional instruction, inspiring content, and purposeful technology, Wonders prepares all students for college and career in the 21st century.
Connect Your Students to Core Standards Discover the power of fully connected programs built for English Language Arts, English Language Development, intervention, and immersion. Make every instructional minute count as students move ahead efficiently, always focused on the same skills, strategies, and standards.
Connect Your Students to Inspiring Literature Wonders is filled with exemplars, award-winners and other high-interest literary and informational texts that range across many genres, eras, and cultures. As students engage with the Essential Questions, they’re gaining access to complex texts, collaborating with their peers, and becoming accomplished at writing to sources.
Connect Your Classroom to the World Wonders provides you with unsurpassed resources that support your instruction – 100% print, 100% digital, or anywhere in between. From weekly school-to-home letters in nine languages, to multimedia resources that speak to students in their own vernacular, Wonders makes the connections that prepare students to succeed.
If we are not working out of our Wonders book, your child will be working on a literature study. This may mean that your child will be expected to read independently, with a partner, in a group, and at times with a teacher the chosen chapter book for that lesson.
Social Studies and Science:
Our class will share time between Social Studies and Science. At times your child will experience these lessons integrated with other subjects. For example, your child may be working on a social studies report in writing.
4th Grade is responsible for the Science AIMS test each year. Your child will build a science journal that includes all of the topics that we have covered. They can use this journal to go back and review. (Key topics in 4th grade: Magnets and electricity, weather/climate, erosion/weathering, mountains, environments, life cycles, animal and plant adaptations).
Your child will be learning about the history and current facts about Arizona.