Elementary School Curriculum
Grade 1 International Baccalaureate Primary Years Program (PYP)
Grade 1 learning is organized through Units of Inquiry that integrate literacy, math, science, humanities, technology, and design. Students build inquiry skills through hands-on learning, storytelling, play, collaboration, and reflection. Daily instruction in math, reading, and writing supports skill development. Note: Units may shift in timing/order year to year.
How the World Works — Earth Materials
Central Idea: Earth materials have properties that can make them useful either in their raw or modified forms.
Students will explore the different materials that come from the Earth and learn about their physical properties. They will investigate how people modify natural materials to create products that meet changing human needs. Through this unit, students will also reflect on the environmental impact of using Earth’s resources and consider how human choices affect the planet.
Where We Are in Place and Time — Innovation
Central Idea: A growth mindset encourages a deeper understanding of the world over time.
Students develop an understanding of growth mindset; the differences between growth mindset and fixed mindset, and how they influence and shape attitudes. They will learn problem solving – how having a growth mindset can help seek solutions, while recognizing the importance of perseverance and reflection.
How We Express Ourselves — Animated Storytelling
Central Idea: Technology tools can be used to engage an audience and inspire learning.
Students inquire into storytelling, creativity, and technology as tools for communication. Learners study story elements, sequencing, and coding concepts while using ScratchJr to retell and create stories. Learners write and animate a narrative story on iPads.
Who We Are — Communities
Central Idea: A community is built from the connectedness of its members.
Students inquire into how communities are organized, the communities they belong to, and the roles/responsibilities of community members. Through guest speakers, field trips, and service experiences, learners explore cooperation and contribution.
How We Organize Ourselves — Classification
Central Idea: Classification systems enable efficient retrieval of information.
Students inquire into how classification systems help organize information. They will explore different classification systems of the past and recognize that classification systems change over time as new information is discovered.
Sharing the Planet — Balancing Ecosystems
Central Idea: All living organisms have life cycles and rely on symbiotic relationships to keep ecosystems in balance.
In this unit, students will explore how living organisms grow, change and interact within ecosystems. They will inquire into the life cycle of insects and the role of insects in the ecosystems, and recognize how humans are responsible for maintaining a balance within the ecosystem.
Reading: Ask/answer questions and retell key details; identify central message; describe characters, settings, and events; identify sensory words/phrases; distinguish stories from informational texts; identify narrator; use illustrations/details to support meaning; compare character experiences; identify main topic/key details in informational texts; use text features; distinguish picture vs. word information; identify author reasons; compare texts on the same topic; build phonics, decoding, and fluency.
Writing: Opinion, informative, and narrative writing with topic, facts/reasons, sequencing, and closure; revise with support; shared research and “how-to” writing; use digital tools to produce and publish writing.
Speaking & Listening: Collaborative conversations; listening/responding to others; asking questions for clarification; ask/answer questions about read-alouds and media; describe people, places, things, and events with details; add drawings/visuals to clarify ideas; speak in complete sentences.
Viewing and Presenting: Using illustrations, diagrams, and displays supports comprehension and communication.
Language: Nouns, pronouns, verbs (past/present/future), adjectives, conjunctions, determiners, and prepositions; simple and compound sentences; capitalization, end punctuation, commas in dates/series, conventional and phonetic spelling; context clues, affixes, root words, word categories, and shades of meaning.
Numbers: Count/read/write to 120; place value for tens and ones in two-digit numbers; compare two-digit numbers; add within 100 with place value strategies; mentally find 10 more/less; subtract multiples of 10. Addition/subtraction within 20 word problems; addition of three numbers (sum ≤20); properties of operations; unknown-addend thinking; counting on; fluency within 10; equal sign meaning; true/false equations; find unknowns in equations.
Measurement: Compare/order lengths; measure using nonstandard units; tell time to hour and half-hour; organize and interpret data with up to three categories.
Shape and Space: Build/draw shapes by defining attributes; compose 2D and 3D shapes into composite shapes; partition circles and rectangles into halves and fourths/quarters.
Data Handling: Organize, represent, and interpret categorical data; answer compare questions using class data displays.
Patterns: Number patterns based on operations.
Art: Students expand their use of mediums and techniques, applying methods that allow greater control over artistic outcomes; sketching, perspective drawing, design, symmetry, print making.
Music: An introduction to standard notation, rhythm, So Mi La, sight reading, expression with instruments
Physical Education: throwing, catching, dribbling, volleying, punting, kicking, striking with implements.Cooperative games: Target Pin Games, Invasion Games, fitness games, tag games PACER TEST Progressive Aerobic Cardiovascular Endurance Test
Spanish: Foundational communication through high-frequency themes (greetings, colors, numbers, calendar, weather, family, clothing, and “¿Dónde está?”, focus is on listening and speaking for meaning, with early literacy limited to letter/sound awareness
Grade 2 International Baccalaureate Primary Years Program (PYP)
Grade 2 learning is organized through Units of Inquiry that integrate science, humanities, literacy, math, technology, and design. Students build curiosity, collaboration, and reflection through inquiry and projects. Daily instruction in math, reading, and writing supports skill development across the year. Note: Units may shift in timing/order year to year.
Who We Are — The Human Body
Central Idea: Healthy life choices facilitate the optimal functioning of the human body’s systems.
Students inquire into body systems, their functions, how systems work together and their interdependence. Learners will recognise that making healthy choices is essential for the proper functioning of the body systems. They will understand the importance of developing healthy habits that promote physical well being.
How We Organize Ourselves — Mini Economies
Central Idea: The needs of the market may create opportunities for inventors to develop new products and services.
Students inquire into wants/needs, goods/services, and how markets work. They will learn how trade practices support communities and how the supply/demand leads to opportunities for inventors, businesses and entrepreneurs.
Where We Are in Place and Time — Legacies
Central Idea: Civilizations from the past have shaped the way we live.
Students inquire into the key features and structures of ancient civilizations, such as governance, architecture, cultures and ways of life civilizations, how ideas develop over time, and how historical legacies shape the present. By comparing past and present, students will recognize patterns of progress, adaptation and continuity. They will reflect on why the learning of past civilizations and appreciate that the past continues to shape our present.
Sharing the Planet — Endangered Animals
Central Idea: Conservation plays a role in the coexistence of living things.
Students inquire into conservation and its importance in supporting the coexistence of living things. They will consider different perspectives on how natural resources are used and protected. They will explore the impact of conservation effects over time and how these actions can bring about change by preserving habitats, and protecting biodiversity. Students will also understand the role and responsibility of humans in protecting endangered species.
How We Express Ourselves — Theater Arts
Central Idea: Performers connect with the audience through expression of emotion in drama, music and the written word.
Students explore how performers communicate ideas, emotions, and messages to an audience through a drama. They will inquire into the process of writing plays, understanding how characters, dialogue, and stage directions help bring stories to life. By engaging in writing, performing, and reflecting, learners will develop an appreciation for the power of performance as a way to express perspectives and build shared experiences.
How the World Works — The Solar System
Central Idea: Earth, our home planet, is unique in the solar system.
Students inquire into planets, the sun and moon, stars, gravity, and patterns in the sky. Students explore Earth’s place in the solar system and what makes it unique among the planets. They will learn about the different planets and their characteristics, gaining an understanding of how our solar system is organized. Students will also investigate how Earth’s rotation and revolution, along with the pull of gravity, cause observable phenomena such as day and night and the changing seasons. In addition, they will explore the relationship between the Sun, Moon, and Earth, recognizing patterns in the sky such as the movement of the Sun, phases of the Moon, and other predictable cycles.
Reading: Ask/answer questions; recount stories and determine central message; describe character responses; analyze structure, rhythm, and point of view; compare versions of the same story; identify main topic/paragraph focus in informational texts; use text features/images; identify author’s purpose/reasons; compare texts on the same topic; decode two-syllable words, prefixes/suffixes, vowel teams, and irregular words; build fluency/comprehension.
Writing: Opinion, informative, and narrative writing with clear beginnings/endings; reasons, facts, definitions, details; linking and temporal words; descriptive actions, thoughts, feelings; revising/editing with support; shared research and observation writing; digital publishing/collaboration.
Speaking & Listening: Collaborative discussions; building on others’ ideas; asking for clarification; recounting key ideas from read-alouds/media; asking/answering questions; telling stories with details; creating audio recordings and adding visuals.
Viewing and Presenting: Interpreting illustrations, diagrams, digital text features, and visual displays supports comprehension.
Language: Nouns, irregular plurals, reflexive pronouns, irregular past-tense verbs, adjectives/adverbs; simple and compound sentences; capitalization, commas in greetings/closings, apostrophes, spelling patterns; formal/informal language; prefixes, roots, compound words, glossaries/dictionaries; word relationships and shades of meaning.
Numbers: Place value to 1000; count and skip-count; read/write/compare numbers and expanded form; add/subtract within 100 and 1000 with models and strategies; mentally add/subtract 10 or 100. One- and two-step addition/subtraction word problems within 100; fluency within 20; odd/even numbers; rectangular arrays and equal addends as early multiplication thinking.
Measurement: Measure/estimate length with standard tools/units; compare lengths and solve length problems; number lines for sums/differences; tell time to nearest five minutes; money problems; collect measurement data and line plots.
Shape and Space: Recognize/draw shapes by attributes; identify triangles, quadrilaterals, pentagons, hexagons, and cubes; partition rectangles into rows/columns; partition circles/rectangles into halves, thirds, and fourths.
Data Handling: Create and interpret picture and bar graphs; solve put-together, take-apart, and compare problems using data displays.
Patterns: Number patterns based on skip counting and basic arithmetic operations.
Art: Students develop fundamental skills such as shading, using basic shapes to construct images, and adding detail to refine visual communication- self-portraits, still life drawing, x-ray hands/skeletal studies, cave-painting and theatrical masks, paper-mâché planets/galaxy art, mini-economy logo/display design, and endangered-species projects.
Music: Continued standard notation, DRMFSLTD Major scale, contour + voices, dynamics, major pentatonic, vocal/instrument technique, half notes/rests, sixteenth notes, sight reading.
Physical Education: throwing, catching, dribbling, volleying, punting, kicking, striking with implements. Cooperative games: fitness games, tag games, small sided activities, PACER TEST Progressive Aerobic Cardiovascular Endurance Test
Spanish: communication by revisiting familiar themes and adding more independence with questions/answers, descriptions, and simple informational topics, increase accuracy and independence in speaking, reading short texts, and writing simple original sentences.
Grade 3 International Baccalaureate Primary Years Program (PYP)
Grade 3 learning is organized through Units of Inquiry that integrate science, humanities, literacy, math, technology, and design. Students build independence through inquiry, research, collaboration, and reflection, with opportunities to investigate, create, present, and apply learning. Daily instruction in math, reading, and writing supports skill development across the year. Note: Units may shift in timing/order year to year.
How We Organize Ourselves — Local Farmers Markets
Central Idea: Farming practices and the trade of agricultural products have intended and unintended consequences.
Students explore different types of farming and agricultural livelihoods. They will examine how farm products are traded and how these systems connect producers and consumers. Students will also consider the positive and negative impacts of farming and trade, and reflect on the responsibility people have to make sustainable choices
Who We Are — Influencers
Central Idea: Communities are made up of people with diverse beliefs and values.
In this unit, students explore the qualities that inspire people and communities. They will identify and reflect on inspiring traits in others and recognize how these qualities can be developed within themselves. Through collaboration and shared experiences, students will understand how learning from others helps them grow and develop a stronger sense of who they are.
How the World Works — Magnetism
Central Idea: Observing patterns in magnetic behavior explains the interaction between forces.
Students explore different types of forces and their effects on objects. They will observe patterns in how magnets attract and repel, helping them understand how magnetic forces work. Students will also investigate how magnetic forces are used in everyday life and consider their practical applications.
Where We Are in Place and Time — Explorers
Central Idea: People expand their understanding of the world through exploration.
Students explore how exploration has helped people discover and learn more about the world. They will examine the motivations behind exploration and how it has changed people, places, and the environment. Through inquiry, students will develop an understanding of how exploration expands knowledge and shapes our world.
How We Express Ourselves — Poetry
Central Idea: People express themselves in many ways.
In this unit, students explore the many ways people express themselves, such as through art, music, language, movement, and storytelling. They will reflect on how poetry helps people share their ideas, feelings, and identity. Students will also discover similarities across different forms of poetry and understand how these connect people and cultures.
Sharing the Planet — Water
Central Idea: Water is a finite resource with infinite demands.
Students explore the water cycle and understand how water moves through the environment. They will investigate how human activities impact water quality and availability. Students will also reflect on their responsibility to conserve water and make choices that protect this vital resource.
Reading: Ask/answer questions with evidence; recount stories and determine central message; describe characters and how actions affect events; distinguish literal/nonliteral language; describe text structure; compare points of view; explain how illustrations support meaning; identify main idea/key details in informational texts; use text features/search tools; compare texts on the same topic; build fluency and decode multisyllabic words.
Writing: Opinion, informative, and narrative writing with clear organization and closure; reasons, facts, definitions, and details; linking and temporal words; dialogue, actions, and feelings; short research projects; note-taking; planning, revising, editing, and publishing.
Speaking & Listening: Collaborative discussions; asking questions to clarify and extend understanding; explaining ideas in response to others; identifying main ideas/details from read-alouds and media; reporting clearly with relevant details; using audio/visuals to support meaning.
Viewing and Presenting: Interpreting illustrations, maps, diagrams, and multimedia supports comprehension and communication.
Language: Parts of speech and sentence functions; regular/irregular plurals and verbs; simple verb tenses; subject-verb/pronoun agreement; comparative/superlative language; conjunctions; simple/compound/complex sentences; capitalization, dialogue punctuation, possessives, and spelling patterns; affixes, roots, glossaries/dictionaries; figurative language.
Numbers: Place value; count/skip-count; read/write/compare numbers and expanded form; add/subtract with models and strategies; mental +10/-10 and +100/-100. Addition/subtraction word problems; fluency strategies; odd/even numbers; arrays and equal addends; multiplication, division, decimals, fractions.
Measurement: Measure/estimate length, mass, money, time,with standard tools/units; area, perimeter, understand relationship between different units of measure; tell time to nearest five minutes; money word problems; elapsed time.
Shape and Space: Regular and irregular shapes, identify common polygons, symmetry and tessellation, identify similarity in 2D shapes, coordinate grid, represent a point on a grid, angles, turns, partition rectangles into rows/columns; partition circles/rectangles into equal shares.
Data Handling: Collect, organize, represent and interpret data using Venn Diagrams, bar graphs, interpret scale and range, describe chance of an event in daily life, fair and unfair to explain outcomes, bar graphs.
Patterns: Understand patterns can be analyzed, identified and extended, number patterns using four operations.
Art: They ensure that artworks align with intended outcomes, integrate prior skills and techniques; focus on drawing/painting, self-portraits, color studies, expression-based murals, and water-inspired printmaking/clay projects.
Mandarin: Vocabulary and communication connected to markets/food, Chinese heroes (including Mulan), exploration in China, movement/poetry links, and water sources/access in different places.
Music: Continued major scale, intro to recorders, intro to composition, dotted half note, music from different places and times, round/canon singing, sight reading.
Physical Education: Football, basketball, pickleball, floor hockey, soccer, skill themes, obstacle courses, Cooperative games, fitness games, tag games, small sided activities, PACER TEST Progressive Aerobic Cardiovascular Endurance Test.
Spanish: expands students’ communication skills through themed units such as seasons, school, numbers/date/time, and family & friends, using high-frequency questions and sentence patterns, reading short, patterned texts and producing simple original writing using taught structures and word banks.
Grade 4 International Baccalaureate Primary Years Program (PYP)
Grade 4 learning is organized through Units of Inquiry integrating science, humanities, literacy, math, technology, and design. Students engage in inquiry, research, collaboration, and reflection, with opportunities to investigate, create, present, and apply learning. Daily instruction in math, reading, and writing supports steady skill development across the year. Note: Units may shift in timing/order year to year.
Where We Are in Place and Time — Primary Sources
Central Idea: Sources provide unique insight into cultural and personal histories.
Students inquire into primary and secondary sources and how they help us understand people, events, and cultures. Learners use interviews and oral histories to explore how research leads to new understandings.
How the World Works — Landforms & Natural Events
Central Idea: Landforms and natural events shape human experiences and responses.
Students explore how landforms and natural events shape the Earth and affect life. They will investigate how events like earthquakes, floods, and volcanic eruptions can change landforms and impact the environment. Students will also examine how humans prepare for, respond to, and recover from natural disasters.
How We Organize Ourselves — Government
Central Idea: People develop rules and systems for governing themselves.
In this unit, students explore how people create rules and systems to govern communities and nations. They will learn about the structure of local and national governments and examine the rights and responsibilities of citizens and leaders. Students will also compare how different countries organize their governments to meet the needs of their people, discovering connections between governance and society.
How We Express Ourselves — Sound
Central Idea: The methods of producing sound are universal and can evoke an appreciation of the aesthetic.
Students inquire into how sound is produced, how organisms use sound to communicate, and how music/sound express ideas and emotion. Learners investigate the physics of sound and how instruments create sound, then apply understanding through design, composition, and performance.
Who We Are — Migration
Central Idea: Throughout time people have migrated, causing change to themselves and Indigenous populations.
Students explore why people migrate and the factors that drive movement across regions. They will examine personal stories to understand the experiences of migrants and the perspectives of indigenous populations. Students will also investigate how migration brings changes to both the newcomers and the communities they join, considering social, cultural, and environmental impacts
Reading: Use details/examples to explain ideas and draw inferences; determine theme/main idea and summarize; describe characters, settings, and events in depth; compare points of view and firsthand/secondhand accounts; interpret visual, oral, and quantitative information; analyze text structures; explain reasons/evidence; integrate information across texts; build academic/domain vocabulary.
Writing: Opinion, informative, and narrative writing with clear organization/development; use facts, details, quotations, and domain vocabulary; develop dialogue/description; conduct short research projects; gather and cite sources; revise/edit with support; publish and collaborate using technology.
Speaking & Listening: Collaborative conversations; build on others’ ideas and ask clarifying questions; paraphrase/summarize information in multiple formats; identify reasons/evidence in spoken presentations; report and present clearly with pacing, visuals, and audio supports; use formal English when appropriate.
Viewing and Presenting: Interpreting and connecting information from visual, oral, and written texts supports understanding.
Language: Relative pronouns/adverbs; progressive verb tenses; modal auxiliaries; adjective order; prepositional phrases; complete sentences; capitalization, punctuation, spelling; direct quotations and commas in compound sentences; precise word choice; formal/informal English; figurative language, idioms, adages, synonyms/antonyms, and domain vocabulary.
Patterns: Generate/analyze number and shape patterns; identify features not explicit in a rule; extend patterns
Numbers: Multi-digit place value, expanded form, comparison, rounding; addition/subtraction fluency; multiplication/division with multi-digit numbers; factors, multiples, prime/composite numbers; fractions (equivalence, comparison, decomposition, addition/subtraction, mixed numbers, multiplication by whole numbers); decimals to hundredths and fraction-decimal connections.
Measurement: Solve problems involving distance, time, volume, mass, and money; convert within systems; area/perimeter of rectangles; line plots with fractional units; angle concepts, measurement, protractor use, and additive angle problems.
Shape and Space: Draw/identify points, lines, rays, angles, parallel/perpendicular lines; classify 2D figures by attributes; identify right triangles; recognize and draw lines of symmetry.
Data Handling: Collect, organize, represent and interpret measurement data; use tables, diagrams, and visual models to solve problems and communicate reasoning.
Art: Self-portrait sketching/shading, community portraits, clay/texture, flag/currency design, abstract and synesthesia-inspired art, instrument-making, seasonal landscapes, and migration/human-rights art.
Mandarin: Students are building foundational Mandarin skills by practicing pinyin and tones for accurate pronunciation, as well as learning essential vocabulary related to family members, pets, fruits and vegetables, and school stationery.
Music: Continued recorders, dotted quarter notes, syncopation, composition projects, music from different places and times, continued round/canon singing, sight reading
Physical Education: football, basketball, pickleball, floor hockey, soccer, archery, gaga ball, 9 squares in the air. Skill themes, obstacle courses, cooperative games, PACER TEST Progressive Aerobic Cardiovascular Endurance Test
Spanish: focus on subject pronouns, articles/noun agreement, and learning how to use a conjugation chart to form present-tense regular verbs. Through structured practice, students build confidence in speaking and writing simple, accurate sentences (pronoun + verb + basic details) while developing consistent subject–verb agreement.
Grade 5 International Baccalaureate Primary Years Program (PYP)
Grade 5 learning is organized through Units of Inquiry that integrate science, humanities, literacy, math, technology, and design. Students learn through research, collaboration, and reflection, with regular opportunities to create, present, and take action. Daily instruction in math, reading, and writing supports steady skill development across the year and prepares students for the transition to middle school. Note: Units may shift in timing/order year to year.
Sharing the Planet — Ecosystems & Urbanization
Central Idea: Urbanization redesigns the balance of ecosystems.
Through this unit, learners will inquire into the connection between urbanisation and ecosystems. They will examine how the growth of cities and human development can create both challenges and opportunities for natural systems. Through the related concepts of sustainability and impact, learners will inquire about human choices that influence the environment.
Where We Are in Place and Time — Media Literacy
Central Idea: Media reshapes our perception of the world.
Students will inquire into the forms of media, various persuasive techniques used to influence thinking and behaviour while learning about the use of media as a means for effective communication.
How We Express Ourselves — Identity & Creative Expression
Central Idea: Inspiration and imagination drive creative expression.
In this unit, students inquire into the diversity of voice, perspectives and expressions through inspiration and imagination. Learners will explore what inspires us and how our connections to people, stories, culture, art, emotions, nature, etc sparks our creativity. They will recognise that imagination develops and changes over time and creativity grows through observations, questioning, reflection and experimentation.
How We Organise Ourselves — Historical Understanding
Central Idea: Historical understanding shapes self-awareness and future societal decision-making.
During this unit, students inquire about cause-effect relationships between historical events and societal decisions. By inquiring into key events in history, students recognise that choices made in the past continue to shape our present systems. They will practice ethical research and citation techniques while learning the importance of gathering accurate information through primary and secondary sources.
How the World Works — Sustainable Energy
Central Idea: Advances in sustainable energy improves quality of life.
In this unit, the inquiry is centered around energy and its types- kinetic and potential. They will also learn how energy is conserved (law of conservation of energy). In addition, they will explore renewable and nonrenewable sources of energy and how advances in sustainable energy technologies impact communities, environment and economies.
Who We Are — PYP Exhibition
Central Idea: Beliefs and passions sustain learning/creativity and enable community contribution.
The PYP Exhibition is not just a final project, but it is a celebration of voice, choice and ownership. As a significant milestone, marking the culmination of their journey in the PYP, students carry out an independent inquiry centered around real life global or local issues. They take responsible action and present their research to the learning community.
Reading: Cite evidence and quote accurately; determine theme/main ideas and summarize; compare characters, settings, events, and multiple accounts; build academic and domain vocabulary; interpret figurative language and nuance; analyze text structure and point of view; explain how authors use reasons/evidence; integrate information across print, digital, and multimedia sources.
Writing: Opinion/informative/narrative writing; clear organization and development; precise language and domain vocabulary; narrative dialogue/pacing/detail; research (sources, paraphrasing, notes, citations); revise/edit with feedback; publish using technology and build typing stamina.
Speaking & Listening: Prepared discussions; accountable talk and collaboration; summarize information from presentations/media; present clearly with logical sequencing and appropriate visuals/media, prepare for PYP Exhibition.
Viewing and Presenting : Synthesizing information from visual texts is dependent upon personal interpretation and leads to new understanding.
Language: Direct quotations and interjections, commas, semi colon, imperative sentences, adverbs, adjectives, subject verb agreement, possessive nouns, tenses, contractions, conjunctions, subject-predicate, clauses, transitions, articles, prefixes, suffixes, Latin and Greek root words
Numbers: place value to thousandths; read/write/compare/round decimals; multi-digit multiplication, division with up to 4-digit dividends and 2-digit divisors; basic operations on fractions and decimals, exponents, ratio and proportion; interpret numerical expressions with parentheses/brackets/braces; write expressions to represent calculations.
Measurement – Area, perimeter, unit conversions; volume concepts and formulas for rectangular prisms (including additive volume); measure radius, diameter, circumference, angle measure, unit conversions, time elapse.
Shape and Space : classify 2D figures and understand shape hierarchies, explore 3 D shapes, irregular polygons, types of lines, use protractor to measure and construct angles, coordinates, latitude and longitude, rotational symmetry, axes of symmetry,slide, flip and turn in 2D shapes.
Data Handling: Collect, organize, represent and interpret pie, bar and line graphs, coordinate plane graphing (first quadrant) ;interpret data in line plots with fractional units; probability.
Art: Students explore ceramics, design and perspective drawing, painting, process of designing and creating final art pieces.
Mandarin: Students learn about tones, strokes, radicals that aid writing skills while gaining vocabulary related to house, rooms, family members, food, transport, time, routine, numbers. Emphasis will also be on verbal communication.
Music: Continued dotted rhythms, continued composition, continued recorders, intro to keyboards, compound meter, modes, sight reading.
Physical Education: Focus on teamwork and responsibility through routines and games; PACER reflection; develop emotional intelligence and self awareness, apply problem solving strategies to solve conflicts.
Spanish: Conjugating regular verbs, learning irregular verbs verb to be; (identity, profession), Frame sentences to write short paragraphs, ask and respond to questions using esta, write short responses and sentences that describe location, emotions, occupations, origin, and relationships, demonstrate correct capitalization, punctuation, and sentence structure.
