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LOWER SCHOOL CURRICULUM
The curriculum at Wildwood Christian Academy is
interdisciplinary in nature, hands-on in practice, and
age-appropriate in design. Our main desire is to meet the
needs of the children where they are developmentally, to
challenge them intellectually, and to provide a nurturing
environment where true potential can be realized.
BIBLE/VALUES
The children learn in a Christian environment that
includes daily devotionals, weekly chapels, the study of
biblical material in Bible/Values class, and participation
in service projects. Texts for the Bible/Values curriculum
are
The Children’s Picture Bible
and
The Kid’s Adventure Bible.
LANGUAGE ARTS
The language arts curriculum provides daily experiences
in listening, speaking, reading, and writing in order to
strengthen communication skills. A variety of approaches
are used to teach reading, and children learn to read for
different purposes. Children’s literature is used to
encourage students to love reading. Time is set aside each
day for reading/listening so that a regular pattern of
reading becomes a life-long habit. Writing is taught by
having students participate in pre-writing, writing,
conferencing, revising and editing. Grammar, punctuation,
capitalization, and vocabulary are integral parts of the
language arts program and are taught as children are
developmentally ready for various concepts. Texts for the
language arts curriculum are
Literacy Place, Handwriting Without Tears, Wordly Wise,
Dolch word lists, and selected stories and novels.
MATH
McGraw-Hill Mathematics
builds on the foundation first laid by the National
Council of Teachers of Mathematics. Its curriculum is
designed to help students develop proficiency in
conceptual understanding, computational and procedural
skills, as well as problem-solving ability. Topics include
number and operations, algebra, geometry, measurement,
data analysis and probability, problem solving, reasoning
and proof, communication, connections, and representation.
SCIENCE
The
McGraw-Hill Science
program is a spiraling curriculum that focuses each year
on Life Science, Earth Science, and Physical Science,
expanding this content in a sequential manner at each
grade level. Each lesson contains the tools and processes
of inquiry, which can empower students to solve problems,
evaluate their solutions, and plan and implement their own
investigations. Based on standards and benchmarks
developed by the National Research Council’s Committee on
Science Education Standards and Assessment and the
American Association for the Advancement of Science, the
McGraw-Hill program enables students to integrate what
they learn in science with what they learn throughout the
school day.
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