Bible
Building on The Rock Level 4, Summit Ministries
- Teacher directed Bible study with multi-sensory follow-up activities
- Praise and worship music
- Corporate prayer time
- Weekly chapel (frequent student performances)
- Weekly Scripture Memory
Language Arts
McGraw Hill Wonders: Literature Anthology
Easy Grammar 4, Easy Grammar Systems
Spelling, Purposeful Design
Write Source, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Cursive Success, Handwriting Without Tears
- Continues to develop fluency and comprehension
- Utilizes fiction and nonfiction selections which are organized into meaning-based learning units, each of which revolves around compelling concepts from across the curriculum
- Refines writing skills to communicate knowledge
- Pursues personal and collaborative inquiry through study and research, identification and accessibility to needed information as well as communication opportunity with classmates
- Self-selected novels (fantasy and historical fiction)
- Class novels (Island of the Blue Dolphins and From the Mixed up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler)
- Research Papers - integrated with Texas History and Island of the Blue Dolphins units
- Study Skills/Test Taking Skills
- Interactive writing journals
- Spelling lessons and games designed to teach spelling concepts and improve proficiency
- Vocabulary enrichment through a variety of vocabulary games and exercises
- Discussion groups
- Memorization of poetry
- Weekly reading logs
- The writing process (Prewriting through publishing)
- Grammar and mechanics
- Cursive writing
- Assignments are both reflexive and extensive
- Peer and teacher writing conferences
Math
Go Math!, Houghton Mifflin
- Systematically teaches math concepts through active participation
- Introduces problem-solving success through early exposure and
continual practice of key math concepts and fundamental concept
connections
- Exposes students to calendar, clock, money, measurement, calculators and computers
- Students analyze data, see patterns, explore mathematical relationships and number theory
- Continue working with addition, subtraction, multiplication,
division, place value, fractions, decimals, integers, ratios,
proportions and percents
- Beginning Algebra
- Beginning Geometry
- Consistent connections between math and language
- Math vocabulary development
Typical Multi-sensory Activities:
- Computer games
- Geo Boards
- Chromebook technology for individualized and interactive learning
- Experiences with money
- Precision teaching for mastery of facts
- Board games designed to practice key math concepts and fine tune basic skills
- Mastery of facts
- Math centers emphasizing deductive reasoning and critical thinking skills
Social Studies
Heritage Studies 4, Bob Jones University Press
Exploring Texas, Stephanie Hirsh, et.al
- Post-Civil War American history
- Ellis Island, Immigration and the numerous ways ethnic communities have shaped our nation today
- Cultural adjustments and benefits of diversity
- Industrial Revolution
- Early inventions and inventors that shaped America
- America’s economy
- Framework of our government
- Physical geography – hemispheres, globe lines, latitude/longitude, plotting coordinates, maps, map reading, landforms, world climate zones, and world time zones
- Texas geography - the regions of Texas
- Texas history from the early explorers through the Civil War
- The native Texans
- Texas’s Early explorers
- Early pioneers
- Texas Revolution
- Independence and the Republic of Texas
- Texas in the Civil War
Science
Science 4, 4th Edition, BJU Press
Science materials are designed to help students
master appropriate science content and skills within the framework of a Biblical worldview.
- Exposes students to God's creation, forces and energy, the moon and oceans, the Earth, and the human body
- Activity-based, hands-on approach meets the NSES Category: “Science as Inquiry”
- Students learn to observe, manipulate, and explore the world around them
- Integrates real life applications
Typical Multi-sensory Activities:
- Class visits from neighborhood experts
- Field trips
- Hands-on experiments
- Observations and inquiries with microscopes
Co-Curricular Classes
- Music
- Spanish
- PE
- Library
- Art
- Technology