3rd - 5th Grade
Teachers build on basic skills students learned in earlier grades to help students apply higher-level thinking to all subjects. Improved reading comprehension opens doors to a deeper understanding of ideas, topics and events. Socially, children begin to internalize values like respect and cooperation, and learn more personal responsibility. Most importantly, students build the skills they need to succeed in middle school.
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English Language Arts
Curriculum
English Language Arts
Learning to read becomes reading to learn. As fluency and comprehension improve, students learn to make inferences and draw conclusions. Children write more complex stories, essays and poetry. Improving their speaking skills, children present reports and narratives in small group and classroom settings. Our teachers use tools like Reading Street © to support instruction in line with state standards.
Math
Curriculum
Math
Children strengthen multiplication, division and fraction skills. They learn place value for large numbers, and decimals. Teachers expand geometry skills through the study of more complex two and three- dimensional states. Preparing for algebra, students graph data and evaluate expressions. As they progress, students learn to select the right strategy to solve real-world math problems.
Science
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Science
Children study more complex human and animal systems. In Earth science, children study forces that act on the Earth, like erosion, rock formation and the hydrosphere. In Physics, they build an understanding of matter and energy. They explore the properties of waves, like sound, light and color. Children begin to connect concepts to real-life applications in technology, mechanics and engineering.
Social Studies
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Social Studies
Children study the values and principles of American democracy, and their responsibilities as citizens. They learn about the structures and functions of government, economics, and human systems. In Geography, students explore countries and continents. History focuses on the birth of the United States. Studying the life of indigenous and colonial people, students learn about exploration, colonisation, slavery, and the American revolution.
Specials
Curriculum
Specials
Children study art, music, physical education and technology.
We're More than Academics
We believe that strong hearts and minds impact the world in amazing ways. For this reason, we teach moral focus in every lesson. They are so meaningful to us that we celebrate them every day as a community, with songs, skits and performances. We practice each virtue daily through:
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Social contracts where we pledge to support and encourage each other.
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Our CHAMPS classroom management system where children learn social responsibility.
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Community outreach like our [Cougars Care trip to Ronald McDonald House].
NHA Parent
The moral focus curriculum is awesome! My kids are learning things that we are trying to teach them at home. It’s being reinforced here at school in fun and creative ways.
Monthly Virtues
Perseverance
Working through challenges to find success
Respect
Treating others as you want to be treated
Compassion
Helping each other through good and bad
Integrity
Being honest, fair and trustworthy
Wisdom
Making the right and just choices
Courage
Standing up for what is good and right
Self-control
Managing your impulses to achieve bigger goals
Encouragement
Supporting each other to be our best
Gratitude
Appreciating what you have and passing it forward
Preparing your child for a lifetime of success
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