Curriculum Highlights

Curriculum outlines are a core of subjects taught at Spring Creek School. They are designed to provide a solid, coherent foundation of learning, but flexible enough to allow for teachable moments and unique needs of the class. Although the outline identifies much of the curriculum, it certainly is not limited to the prescribed topics.

Language Arts
Reading and Writing

• Book and Print Awareness
• Phonemic Awareness
• Decoding and Encoding
• Reading and Language Comprehension
• Writing and Spelling

Poetry

• Mother Goose and Other Traditional Poems
• Other Poems - new and old

Fiction

• Stories
• Aesop’ss Fables
• American Legends and Tall Tales
• Literary Terms Sayings and Phrases

History and Geography
World

• Spatial Sense
• Seven Continents

American

• Geography
• Native American Peoples
• Early Exploration and Settlements
• Columbus in 1492
• Pilgrims
• Independence Day

Presidents
Symbols and Figures

Visual Arts
Elements of Art

• Color
• Line
• Sculpture

Great Works of Art

Drama

Mathematics

• Patterns and Classification
• Numbers and Number Sense
• Money
• Computation
• Measurement
• Geometry

Science

• Plants and Plant Growth
• Animals and Their Needs
• The Human Body
• Magnetism
• Seasons and Weather
• Taking Care of the Earth
• Science Biographies

Spanish

• Basic Vocabulary
• Spanish Holidays

Physical Education

• Group Games
• Cooperation
• Coordination