At Avondale Meadows Academy, we offer students curriculums that develop their knowledge of reading, writing, math, science, and social studies. Each curriculum has been carefully evaluated and tested to be sure it meets the needs of our students. Each of our curriculums provide students with the skills they need to set them on the path to college.
Core Knowledge is a science and social studies curriculum that provides a broad base of knowledge and the rich vocabulary needed for reading achievement and academic success taught grades K-4. The program consists of three C’s. Visit http://www.coreknowledge.org/ for more information.
- Coherent– Identification of what children should learn at each grade level ensures a coherent approach to building knowledge across all grade levels.
- Cumulative– Core Knowledge provides a clear outline of content to be learned grade by grade so that knowledge, language, and skills build cumulatively from year to year. This sequential building of knowledge not only helps ensure that children enter each new grade ready to learn, it also helps prevent the repetitions and gaps that so often characterize current education.
- Content-Specific-Core Knowledge clearly specifies the important knowledge in language arts, history, geography, math, science, and the fine arts.
Students in Kindergarten through 4th grade use Core Knowledge Language Arts (CKLA) for English Language Arts instruction. CKLA is a comprehensive curriculum designed to build strong readers, writers, speakers, and thinkers.
Through daily instruction, students develop foundational reading skills such as phonics, decoding, fluency, and comprehension while also building vocabulary and knowledge through engaging topics in literature, history, science, and the arts. Students regularly read, discuss, and write about what they are learning.
As students progress through the grades, CKLA helps them build the skills and knowledge needed to understand increasingly complex texts, communicate their ideas clearly, and become confident, independent readers and writers.
Eureka Math (Great Minds) is taught in all grades, K-8. This program builds math skills by engaging students in fluency-building activities, problem solving, peer evaluation, and specific grade-level skill instruction. Students are active participants in each lesson. Fluency activities provide students with quick and fun daily practice of the basic understandings students must have in order to interact with more advanced math concepts. Application Problems allow students an opportunity to interpret a task, attempt to solve, evaluate their process and results, discuss with peers and revise. Students learn to represent their thinking using models and to write about their work. This process helps students develop the logic and reasoning skills they need for math and for life. The daily content lessons build gradually on each other. From the sequence of lessons to the exact numbers used in each problem, Eureka math is designed to very carefully advance students’ understandings with lots of opportunities to practice each skill. Students receive peer and teacher feedback to help them along the way toward mastering each concept.
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For any curriculum and academic related questions, please reach out to Kandis Pearson, USI Director of Academics (kpearson@unitedschoolsindy.org).
