Schedule & Goals
Learning Goals
Math - Oak Meadow + other Resources
3rd: Commutative and associative properties, borrowing and carrying, ordinal numbers, telling time, weights and measures, money math, multiplication, and division with remainders, fractions and some decimals.
4th: Carrying and borrowing, division with remainders, multistep word problems, weights and measures, two-digit multiplication, adding and subtracting fractions, money math, rounding and estimating, and long division.
5th: Place value and rounding, measuring time - adding and subtracting time, borrowing across zero, borrowing from a borrowed digit, bar graphs and line graphs, two-digit divisors, perimeter, and area, adding, subtracting, and multiplying decimals.
Language Arts - Oak Meadow + other Resources
3rd: Sentence and paragraph composition, suffixes/prefixes, parts of speech, punctuation, spelling rules, morphology, cursive handwriting, reading aloud with fluency, poetry and classic literature, syllabication, and journaling.
4th: Parts of speech, journal writing, paragraphing skills, revision skills, sentence variety, poetry, suffixes/prefixes, morphology, dialogue punctuation, short story writing, plurals and possessives, editing and proofreading, and grammar rules.
5th: Compound and complex sentences, capitalization and punctuation, sentence types, prefixes and suffixes, verb tenses, mophology, plurals and possessives, five-paragraph essays, citing sources, homophones, creative writing, descriptive writing, informational writing, narrative writing, and antonyms and synonyms.
"What Is Nature Journaling?
Keeping an illustrated, observational journal is a centuries-old method that has been reenvisioned and refined through the lens of our understanding of neuroscience, learning, and deliberate practice. A nature journal is a lens that focuses our attention and crystalizes our observations, thoughts, and experiences."
Nature Journaling is collecting and organizing your observations, questions, connections, and explanations on the pages of a notebook using words, pictures, and numbers. You do not need to be an artist or a naturalist to begin. These skills can be learned by anyone, and you can develop them with deliberate practice. The system is creative, rigorous, and playful, easy to begin and learn, and will grow and mature over a lifetime. Start now: you can do this, and the world is waiting.
Nature Journaling will enrich your experiences and develop observation, curiosity, gratitude, reverence, memory, and the skills of a naturalist. It helps you discover, think, remember, and integrate new information with your existing knowledge. Train your mind, and the world will offer you its secrets of wonder and beauty."
Arts and Crafts
Integrated throughout the curriculum including during Nature Journaling, Forest Families, weekly lessons with Ms. Diana, and projects based on student interest.
Bushcrafting
Throughout the year we work with students to build skills in the following areas:
Orienteering
Reading and making maps
Carving
Fort building/shelter making
Tracking
