Common Core

Common Core Curriculum


About the Standards

The Common Core is a set of high-quality academic standards in mathematics and English language arts/literacy (ELA). These learning goals outline what a student should know and be able to do at the end of each grade. The standards were created to ensure that all students graduate from high school with the skills and knowledge necessary to succeed in college, career, and life, regardless of where they live.
The Common Core is informed by the highest, most effective standards from states across the United States and countries around the world. The standards define the knowledge and skills students should gain throughout their K-12 education in order to graduate high school prepared to succeed in entry-level careers, introductory academic college courses, and workforce training programs.

Mathematics

In grade K-6, Students will use the Math in Focus mathematics program. Math in Focus provides an authentic Singapore math curriculum highlighting problem solving as the focus of mathematical learning. This complete program teaches concepts using a concrete–pictorial–abstract learning progression to anchor learning in the real-world.

Scope and Sequence for a year of learning:
  • Positive and Negative Numbers on the Number Line
  • Multiplying abd Dividing Fractions and Decimals
  • Ratios, Rates, and Percents
  • Algebraic Expression; Equations and Inqualities
  • The Coordinate Plane
  • Area of Polygons
  • Surface Area and Volume of Solids
  • Intro to Statistics?

English Language Arts

Standards for Reading Literature and Informational Texts
In grade 6, the Common Core State Standards call for students to proficiently read grade-appropriate complex literature and informational text while further developing the ability to cite textual evidence to support analyses. Students focus on examining how authors use reasons to make their points and support arguments with evidence. Students analyze both the structure and content of complex, grade-appropriate texts, determining how sentences and paragraphs within texts influence and contribute to the unfolding of a plot and the development and elaboration of events or ideas. 

Standards for Speaking and Listening
According to the Speaking and Listening Standards, students share their findings in class discussions, practicing how to sequence ideas and highlight themes and key details. Students’ vocabularies expand as they use context, knowledge of Greek and Latin roots and affixes, and word analysis to determine the meaning of academic words.

Standards for Writing
Students are increasingly challenged to sharpen their ability to write and speak with more clarity and coherence, providing clear reasons and relevant evidence. The Writing Standards specify that students will learn how writers try to influence readers while discovering how they can do the same in their own writing. They discover how to answer questions through writing and can use rewriting opportunities to refine their understanding of a text or topic. 

Science

Scope and Sequence for a year of learning:
  • Variables Investigation 1
  • Life Jacket Challenge
  • Weather and Water Investigation 1
  • Weather and Water Investigation 2
  • Weather and Water Investigation 3
  • Weather and Water Investigation 4
  • Weather and Water Investigation 5
  • Save the Penguins