The grading scale description below is taken directly from the 2014-2015 Handbook. Please refer to these descriptions prior to contesting your child's grade in any area.
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Curriculum for
the Year
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All
school benchmarks have been adapted from the North Carolina Standard Course of
study. The direct benchmarks for Kindergarten can be found here.
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Language Arts
§ We use Junior
Great Books as our curriculum the second semester of the year.
§ Junior Great Books is a program
designed to integrate class discussions, dramatizations, creative writing,
projects, and interpretive thinking. A huge focus of the program is also
reading comprehension.
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Developmental
Reading Assessment (DRA)
§ This is the
formal reading assessment I use to test your child’s reading fluency, decoding,
and comprehension.
§ There are all
kinds of resources for finding books at your child’s DRA level, including
conversion charts. Some of the best
resources are:
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Handwriting
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Phonics and
Spelling
§ Weekly
spelling words, DOLCH words, and vocabulary words have been derived from a
culmination of various literacy, phonics, and spelling programs. The school’s phonics program that is also
used is All About Spelling. Find more
information at: http://allaboutlearningpress.com/all-about-spelling
o
Science
§ We use BSCS as
supplemental science materials. More
information can be found at: http://www.bscs.org/bscs-science-inquiry-approach
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Mathematics
§ We use
Everyday Mathematics as our math curriculum.
§ Additional
math resources and information can be found at:
o
Social Studies
§ We will be
reading Scholastic Weekly Readers to enhance our studies.
§ Wise Skills is
the character education program that has been implemented at the school. More information can be found at: http://www.wiseskills.com/
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