Specialist Schedule
Room 181
Monday
Media 8:40-9:20
Music 1:10-1:50
Tuesday
Spanish 9:45-10:25
Wednesday
P.E. 8:50-9:30
Thursday
Art 8:40-9:20
STEAM 1:10-1:50
Friday
P.E. 8:40-9:20
updated 8/9/18
***Please remind your child to wear sneakers on PE days and return library books on media days. ***
STEAM = Science, Technology, Engineering, Art, & Music
Grades 1-3 have a year-long STEAM experience. STEAM is an acronym for Science, Technology, Engineering, the Arts, and Mathematics. It is not a program, but a philosophical approach to learning that integrates knowledge from the various disciplines. It is taught through project-based experiences that also emphasize the 21stcentury skills of collaboration, cooperation and communication. The STEAM experience is divided into four 9-week segments, with each focusing on a different aspect of how these various disciplines are interconnected.
• In the Arts portion of STEAM, students will be using skills and concepts learned in visual art and music to reinforce,express, practice and demonstrate knowledge and skills in other academic areas such as science, math or literacy. Examples of topics include: how patterns occur in music, drama games created around the solution of math problems, how patterns and symmetry in are important in design, and the important role that length, width and depth play in sculptural form.
• In the Engineering component of STEAM, students will be engaged in project-based engineering activities that integrate with the existing science curriculum. Using the Museum of Science‘s “Engineering is Elementary” curriculum, students will learn to think like mechanical engineers and to use their understanding of air as wind to design and create wind-powered machines. Students will learn how common machines such as mechanical pencils and egg-beaters work, then use their mechanical engineering skills to design sail boats and windmills that catch the wind. Activities are extensions/reinforcements of concepts of air and weather, the engineering design process, and electricity that are taught in the science curriculum at these grade levels.
• In the Technology segment of STEAM, students will be introduced to computer programming via sites such as Google’s Blockly, MIT’s Scratch and Botlogic. In the process they will be developing the basic computer and navigation skills needed to support general computer use as well as their programming activities. Through this experience, students will be exposed to a new literacy, have an opportunity to develop their critical and logical thinking skills, and will begin to develop an understanding of the relationship between programming and the technologies that are part of their everyday lives.
Spanish
Students in grades 1-5 this year will be learning how to speak and understand Spanish. Experiences will focus on listening and repeating new vocabulary that is used to talk about every day topics. Here's the focus at the primary and intermediate grade levels.
· Listen and repeat new vocabulary related to greetings, numbers, calendar, weather, shapes,classroom objects, places and activities in school.
· Ask and respond to simple questions.
· Show comprehension by following basic classroom instructions.
· Produce simple expressions.
· Demonstrate an awareness, curiosity and appreciation for different cultures.
Room 181
Monday
Media 8:40-9:20
Music 1:10-1:50
Tuesday
Spanish 9:45-10:25
Wednesday
P.E. 8:50-9:30
Thursday
Art 8:40-9:20
STEAM 1:10-1:50
Friday
P.E. 8:40-9:20
updated 8/9/18
***Please remind your child to wear sneakers on PE days and return library books on media days. ***
STEAM = Science, Technology, Engineering, Art, & Music
Grades 1-3 have a year-long STEAM experience. STEAM is an acronym for Science, Technology, Engineering, the Arts, and Mathematics. It is not a program, but a philosophical approach to learning that integrates knowledge from the various disciplines. It is taught through project-based experiences that also emphasize the 21stcentury skills of collaboration, cooperation and communication. The STEAM experience is divided into four 9-week segments, with each focusing on a different aspect of how these various disciplines are interconnected.
• In the Arts portion of STEAM, students will be using skills and concepts learned in visual art and music to reinforce,express, practice and demonstrate knowledge and skills in other academic areas such as science, math or literacy. Examples of topics include: how patterns occur in music, drama games created around the solution of math problems, how patterns and symmetry in are important in design, and the important role that length, width and depth play in sculptural form.
• In the Engineering component of STEAM, students will be engaged in project-based engineering activities that integrate with the existing science curriculum. Using the Museum of Science‘s “Engineering is Elementary” curriculum, students will learn to think like mechanical engineers and to use their understanding of air as wind to design and create wind-powered machines. Students will learn how common machines such as mechanical pencils and egg-beaters work, then use their mechanical engineering skills to design sail boats and windmills that catch the wind. Activities are extensions/reinforcements of concepts of air and weather, the engineering design process, and electricity that are taught in the science curriculum at these grade levels.
• In the Technology segment of STEAM, students will be introduced to computer programming via sites such as Google’s Blockly, MIT’s Scratch and Botlogic. In the process they will be developing the basic computer and navigation skills needed to support general computer use as well as their programming activities. Through this experience, students will be exposed to a new literacy, have an opportunity to develop their critical and logical thinking skills, and will begin to develop an understanding of the relationship between programming and the technologies that are part of their everyday lives.
Spanish
Students in grades 1-5 this year will be learning how to speak and understand Spanish. Experiences will focus on listening and repeating new vocabulary that is used to talk about every day topics. Here's the focus at the primary and intermediate grade levels.
· Listen and repeat new vocabulary related to greetings, numbers, calendar, weather, shapes,classroom objects, places and activities in school.
· Ask and respond to simple questions.
· Show comprehension by following basic classroom instructions.
· Produce simple expressions.
· Demonstrate an awareness, curiosity and appreciation for different cultures.