4's Curriculum
The 4’s curriculum focuses on:
- Language arts: Building literacy skills through activities such as journaling, book making, observational drawing and story time.
- Mathematics:
- Learning concepts such as patterns, equivalency, and grouping by 10’s
- Introducing numerical concepts through observing physical attributes such as size, shape and color
- Using Unifix cubes to manipulate numbers
- Displaying numerical understanding through the creation of a 100 Museum exhibit
- Community building
- Adjusting to school routines and building relationships with peers
- Learning to take care of one another and use words and bodies for good
- Student development
- Fostering independence and self-help skills
- Strengthening concentration and follow-through
Thematic units in the 4’s curriculum include:
- Identity and family study: Exploring our own self-identities and families through self-portraits and family drawings
- Changemakers: Studying social justice heroes such as Gandhi, Celia Cruz, Martin Luther King, Jr., Rosa Parks, Ruby Bridges and Tito Puente
- Project-based learning: Building inquiry and research skills through projects that emerge from children’s interests and questions.