Core Curriculum Description
Our elementary program fosters rigorous, interactive learning designed to cultivate critical thinking, real-world application, and academic exploration across all major subjects.
Provides a rigorous exploration of standards with an adventure-filled theme. Students move from learning to read to reading to learn using complex texts and intensive vocabulary integration.
- Foundational reading skills & comprehension strategies
- Informative, narrative, and opinion writing compositions
- Rigorous grammar instruction integrated into writing lessons
- Cross-content integration to explore diverse topics
Inspires students to become problem solvers who use mathematics to make sense of the world. The course balances explicit instruction with hands-on discovery and digital learning tools.
- Multiplication, division within 100, fractions, and decimals
- Geometric concepts, area, and volume
- Engaging multimedia elements like rhymes, chants, and videos
- On-screen and off-screen practice with concrete manipulatives
Sparks natural curiosity while building a solid structural foundation across multiple branches of science. Built upon an active framework that empowers students to engage, explore, explain, elaborate, and evaluate.
- Core concepts in Earth, Life, and Physical Sciences
- Hands-on engineering practices and model development
- Planning investigations, conducting data analysis, and interpreting evidence
- Constructing scientific explanations and designing real-world solutions
Utilizes a highly personalized approach to introduce community, civics, and global citizenship. Scaffolded lessons feature recurring characters and challenges that keep young learners motivated.
- Foundational principles of history, geography, and economics
- The geography of North America and the historical impact of immigration
- Deep look at American history, civics, and foundational state events
- Grade-appropriate text analysis to reinforce reading comprehension
Explore Curriculum Details By Grade
Select a grade level below, then click on any core subject to view a detailed breakdown of the units taught throughout the academic school year.
Unit 1
Central message, character traits, use of tenses, sentence building, word meanings.
Unit 2
Look for main ideas, cause-effect relationships, sequencing, use of commas, capitalization, and quotation marks.
Unit 3
Chapters, scenes, stanzas, point of view, possessive nouns, pronouns, opinion text.
Unit 4
Cursive writing, sentence to paragraph building, author Vs reader point of view, nouns as subject and object.
Unit 5
Text features, illustrations, setting, plot, theme, verbs and adverbs, compound sentences.
Unit 6
Text Features, key details, using ‘a’ and ‘an’, complex sentences.
Unit 7
Plot, character, narrator, reader points of view, central message, punctuation, compound words, contractions.
Unit 8
Shades of Meaning, time, cause-effect relationships, subject-verb agreement, research project.
Unit 9
Setting, plot, theme, prepositional phrases.
Unit 10
Paragraph building, language of sequence/ time, comparing and contrasting, irregular verbs.
Unit 11
Central message of story, setting, plot, themes, writing and expanding sentences.
Unit 12
Evaluate author’s point of view, expanding on prior knowledge.
Unit 1
Addition Facts
Unit 2
Fluently Add and Subtract Within 1,000
Unit 3
Represent and Interpret Data
Unit 4
Understand Multiplication and Division
Unit 5
Multiplication Facts: Use Facts
Unit 6
Multiplication facts for 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8
Unit 7
Use Multiplication to Divide: Division Facts
Unit 8
Fluently Multiply and Divide Within 100
Unit 9
Multiply by Multiples of Ten
Unit 10
Connect Area to Multiplication and Division
Unit 11
Solve Time, Capacity, and Mass Problems
Unit 12
Understanding Fractions as Numbers
Unit 13
Fraction Equivalence and Comparison
Unit 14
Attributes of 2-Dimensional Shapes
Unit 15
Solve Perimeter Problems
Unit 1
Gravity
Unit 2
Stars
Unit 3
Forms of Energy
Unit 4
Motion
Unit 5
Heat
Unit 6
Light
Unit 7
Properties of Matter
Unit 8
Changes in Matter
Unit 9
Plant Structures and Functions
Unit 10
Plant Responses
Unit 11
Plant Classification
Unit 12
Animal Classification
Unit 13
Adaptations
Unit 1
What is Social Studies?
Unit 2
Where in the World?
Unit 3
Introducing North America
Unit 4
Amazing America
Unit 5
Meet the Neighbors
Unit 6
Making Money Work
Unit 7
People Power
Unit 8
Get to Know the Government
Unit 1
Make inferences, describe a character, setting, or event, use common, proper, and plural nouns, formal and informal language, use strong verbs and helping, linking, and verb phrases
Unit 2
Use textual evidence, explain events, concepts, and procedures in historical, scientific, and technical texts, relative pronouns, subjects and predicates, write a person narrative
Unit 3
Similes and metaphors, stories, dramas, and poems, correcting inappropriate run-ons and fragments
Unit 4
Describe the overall structure of a text, compare and contrast firsthand and secondhand accounts, use reference materials to determine a word meaning
Unit 5
Make connections between the text and a visual representation, use Greek and Latin Affixes, correcting grammar
Unit 6
Synonyms and antonyms, reasons and evidence to support points, match pronouns and their antecedents, use comparative and superlative adjectives and relative adverbs
Unit 7
Explain idioms, similes, and metaphors, summarize and determine theme, use parentheses for effect, order adjectives
Unit 8
Make inferences and explain what a text says explicitly, use the progressive verb tense, irregular verbs, and apostrophes correctly when forming contractions
Unit 9
Understand the meaning of adages and proverbs, recognize and use homophones, determine the theme of a poem, compound and complex sentences, helping verbs
Unit 10
Build on knowledge of synonyms, antonyms, homophones, sentence structure, and grammar
Unit 11
Compare and contrast themes, topics, and patterns of events in traditional literature, use appositives. participial phrases and a variety of sentence types, write a fictional narrative
Unit 12
Build on knowledge of first and secondhand accounts, demonstrative pronouns, the negative, sentence structure, and grammar
Unit 1
Generalize Place Value Understanding
Unit 2
Represent and Interpret Data on Line Plots
Unit 3
Fluently Add and Subtract Multi-Digit Whole Numbers
Unit 4
Use Strategies and Properties to Multiply by One-Digit Numbers
Unit 5
Use Strategies and Properties to Multiply by Two-Digit Numbers
Unit 6
Use Strategies and Properties to Divide by One-Digit Numbers
Unit 7
Use Operation with Whole Numbers to Solve Problems
Unit 8
Factors and Multiples
Unit 9
Fraction Equivalents and Comparing
Unit 10
Understanding Addition and Subtraction of Fractions
Unit 11
Extend Multiplication Concepts to Fractions
Unit 12
Understand and Compare Decimals
Unit 13
Measurement: Find Equivalence in Units of Measure
Unit 14
Algebra: Generate and Analyze Patterns
Unit 15
Geometric Measurement: Angles and Angle Measurement
Unit 16
Lines, Angles, and Shapes
Unit 1
Magnets
Unit 2
Motion of objects
Unit 3
Energy
Unit 4
Properties of matter
Unit 5
Physical Weathering and erosion
Unit 6
Rocks and minerals
Unit 7
Plant life
Unit 8
Animal life
Unit 9
Heredity
Unit 10
Resources and environment
Unit 11
Seasonal changes
Unit 12
Earth’s movement
Unit 1
Geography
Unit 2
Early Beginnings
Unit 3
Times of Transition
Unit 4
Civil War and Reconstruction
Unit 5
Industrialization
Unit 6
A New Century
Unit 7
Modern Times
Unit 8
Civics and Government
Unit 9
Financial Literacy
Unit 1
Recognizing explicit vs. implicit information, summarize and determine theme, use nouns as subjects and objects
Unit 2
Determine the main idea and supporting details, summarize a text, use text-clues, underline, quotations, and italics in titles
Unit 3
Explain how a series of chapters, scenes, or stanzas fit together to provide the overall structure of a story, drama, or poem, interpret metaphors and similes, use coordinating and subordinating conjunctions to write compound and complex sentences
Unit 4
Interpret the meaning of adages and proverbs, understand figurative language, compare and contrast the points of view of multiple accounts on the same topic, use the perfect verb tense
Unit 5
Understand dialect, interpret multimedia features and how they contribute to the meaning, tone, and beauty of a text, compare and contrast the authors’ approaches to the themes and topics of two stories in the same genre, use commas after introductory words/phrases and to set off words “yes” and “no”
Unit 6
Use information from text features to answer or solve a problem, explain how authors use reasons and evidence to support his or her points, construct text-based responses, use pronouns correctly
Unit 7
Use story details to summarize and determine the theme, understand and analyze point of view, use adjective and adverbs as modifiers, use the writing process to write an informative text in response to literature
Unit 8
Determine the main idea and supporting details, compare and contrast text structures, and multiple accounts on the same topic, use prepositional phrases as modifiers, use semicolons and colons, conduct a short research project about a topic
Unit 9
Build on previous knowledge, form compound-complex sentences, use the writing process to write an opinion text
Unit 10
Integrate information from multiple sources, use participial phrases as modifiers, recognize run-ons and sentence fragments, use appositives
Unit 11
Compare and contrast two or more characters, settings, or events in a story, use interjections, correct misused pronouns and verbs
Unit 12
Build on previous knowledge, write text-based responses, use transition words, recognize double negatives
Unit 1
Understand Place Value
Unit 2
Add and Subtract Decimals to Hundredths
Unit 3
Fluently Multiply Multi-Digit Whole Numbers
Unit 4
Use Models and Strategies to Multiply Decimal Numbers
Unit 5
Use Models and Strategies to Divide Whole Numbers
Unit 6
Use Models and Strategies to Divide Decimal Numbers
Unit 7
Use Equivalent Fractions to Add and Subtract Fractions
Unit 8
Apply Understanding of Multiplication to Multiply Fractions
Unit 9
Apply Understanding of Division to Divide Fractions
Unit 10
Understanding Volume Concepts
Unit 11
Convert Measurements
Unit 12
Represent and Interpret Data
Unit 13
Write and Interpret Expressions
Unit 14
Graph Points on a Coordinate Plane
Unit 15
Algebra: Analyze Patterns and Relationships
Unit 16
Classify Two-Dimensional Figures
Unit 1
Properties of matter
Unit 2
Mixtures
Unit 3
Atoms
Unit 4
Changes in matter
Unit 5
Energy
Unit 6
Force and motion
Unit 7
Forms of energy
Unit 8
Solar systems and galaxies
Unit 9
Water cycle
Unit 10
Weather
Unit 11
Climate
Unit 12
Adaptations
Unit 13
Human body organs and functions
Unit 14
Organism structure, function, and comparison
Unit 15
Islamic Studies
Unit 16
Arabic Language
Unit 1
Early North America
Unit 2
European Exploration
Unit 3
The Settlement of North America
Unit 4
American Revolution
Unit 5
Founding a Nation
Unit 6
Growth and Westward Expansion
Unit 7
Social Studies Today
Unit 8
Islamic Studies
Unit 9
Arabic Language