The core academic curriculum can be based on the Remote Learning plans provided by your student's own school.
These experiences are designed to be interdisciplinary explorations, bringing together Science, Humanities, Social Studies, and the Arts.
Emphasizing independence, it views children as naturally eager for knowledge and capable of initiating learning in a sufficiently supportive and well-prepared learning environment.
An interdisciplinary approach to learning where rigorous academic concepts are coupled with real-world lessons as students apply science, technology, engineering, and mathematics.
Just wanted to let you know Michael Rivera has continued to impress me and our boys adore him. This has been a wonderful experience for Ezra and I know how hard it is to motivate 13 year old kids for 12 extra hours of school every week! I'm attaching a video of a science lesson...so much fun!
Alexis L.
Parent
This syllabus was pulled from the Mulberry Lane learning pod at SchoolHouse. It is an example of what some of our kindergarten pods are learning. Of course your child's class syllabus may differ from the one below so please use this as a reference only and not an actual "set in stone" syllabus.
There are several key skills I will be teaching:
There are several other things we will be focusing on during these first twelve weeks:
This is an example syllabus from one of our current 1st grade learning pods and is intended to lay out what your child may learn, do, and think about over their semester with SchoolHouse.
There are several key skills I will be teaching:
Students will learn to...
Welcome to Mrs. Graham’s SchoolHouse! This document is intended to lay out what your child's 2nd grade pod may look like during their semester with SchoolHouse. Since every pod is unique your pod schedule, curriculum, and electives may differ from this syllabi.
There are several key skills I will be teaching:
We will use a selection of mentor texts to focus on a particular theme, time of year, current event, SEL, history, and culture.
Reading list:
As we move into the holiday season of Christmas and Hanukkah, we will share our culture, tradition and religious meaning of each holiday.
Math study will build off of the Common Core Standards for 2nd grade, outlined by the school district.
This will include:
Science will build off topics of student's choice and mentor texts, including:
Students will also learn:
During the first few weeks we will focus on building our pod culture. What does culture mean? How is home school different from in the school building? What are our expectations for our Pod? What does it mean to be kind? Going forward we will read, discuss, view and have physical activities based on:
There are several other things we will be focusing on during these first twelve weeks:
This syllabi is pulled from one of our full-time enrollment pods. The schedule below is a brief outline of what the students will cover every day with a full class calendar attached at the bottom - with the full example.
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This syllabus is an excerpt pulled from Ms. Jancura's 4th grade pod and is used to show you what a fourth grade pod may look like. Please remember that each learning pod is unique to its students so although your pod may have a different core curriculum, extracurriculars, and schedule.
This year students will read a variety of literature for understanding as well as enjoyment. Reading instruction will include direct reading instruction, independent reading, reading aloud, and small group reading. We will begin by launching Reader’s Workshop, interpreting characters, and reading the world.
Word Study is founded in the oral and written language of the classroom and builds on the students’ inquiries and needs. We will begin by working on sentence structure; verb tense, subject-verb agreement, subjective vs. objective cases, and the subject and predicate of simple and compound sentences.
In fourth grade, students will expand their repertoire of writing genres, increase their writing skills, and study the craft of writing. The writing workshop will parallel the reading workshop in structure. It will include mini-lessons (direct instruction), independent writing, conferences and shares. The writer’s notebook will continue to be an important tool for authentic writing. Students will draft, revise and edit to produce quality pieces of writing. We will begin by Launching Writing Workshop, writing realistic fiction, and persuasive essays.
We will build off of the Common Core Standards for 4th grade, outlined by the school district. This will include:
We will build off of topics from the student’s choices and mentor texts. Topics to explore:
During the first few weeks we will focus on building our pod culture. What does culture mean? How is home school different from in the school building? What are our expectations for our Pod? What does it mean to be kind? Going forward we will read, discuss, view and have physical activities based on:
There are several other things we will be focusing on during these first twelve weeks:
The syllabi below is an example of our standard 5th grade, part-time (3 days) learning pod. The syllabi is broken down into weeks and then further into individual days.
On Monday, the Waddle will get to explore all of the subjects, and continue culture building. In Science, students will learn about the Heart and circulatory system, including an experiment on pulse-racing and pulse-slowing activities. In English, we’ll receive back and revise our First Day of School prompts as well as jumping into our second writing prompt. Social Studies will consist of current events through reading and discussion of “The Week, Jr.”. In Math, we’ll get to explore how we all see math differently, tackle a few unique puzzles and complete our first “3-Act Task” (real-world problems explored formally and informally). Students will also receive their class jobs, and get to share about their weekend and lives (as will be a habit through our ongoing community circles).
On Wednesday, we’ll jump into the day with our quote of the week (on effort, this week!), before our first vocabulary and grammar challenge. Students and I will take time to conference and revise our prompt from Monday, as well as a more informal free-write using several technology drafting tools we’ll explore. Based on students’ questions of interest and topics they hope to explore from Monday, each will begin research and experimentation on a personalized topic. In Math, we’ll begin our class focus on place value with a math block, followed up by “Math Basketball” which is sure to be a student favorite. To keep building our strong positive culture, we’ll have fun a team-building activity and close by learning more about our digital portfolios and organization systems.
On Thursday, the whole BBSDT team will be back together for a great close to the week! We’ll dip our toes into our first Document-Based-Question (DBQ) for Social Studies and use it as the focus for the day’s writing prompt. In math, we’ll continue to explore place value through decimals and ensure everyone is feeling good on content for school heading into the weekend. Friday will also feature our first student choice block, where students can choose from a menu of continuing scientific research, English exploration, geography and social students content, or math challenges. We’ll finish by receiving our first payday from class jobs, revisiting our Pod Crest and Name activity to affirm our values/culture, and have a shout-out filled closing circle.
Our mixed-grade pods follow curricula that are appropriate for each grade-level in the pod. Our teachers look for places where there are commonalities between grades and opportunities for students to collaborate while also providing individualized support for each student.
mixed-pod: 1st, 3rd
This week we will launch the groundwork for our readers and writers workshops. Then we will begin our chapter read-aloud of Charlotte's Webb where students will focus on the plot, problem, solution, and character development.
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3rd grade
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Our Science/Social Studies time is currently being used for beginning of year (BOY) assessments. As the assessments are administered individually, it takes a significant amount of time! As soon as all BOY assessments are complete, we will continue learning about our first Science unit on Waves, Light and Sound!
This week we are in Unit 1.3, where we will be learning about Cognitive Flexibility. Cognitive Flexibility is the ability to think flexibly and to shift perspectives and approaches flexibly. This process is crucial for students to learn new concepts. Cognitive flexibility helps students to combine ideas and concepts logically and to integrate major themes with details.
This week, students are learning about the character trait we will focus on for the month of October, Respectfulness. Students will learn the definition of respect is, and discuss why it is important to be respectful towards others.
Your schoolhouse is designed around your family's needs. When you meet with a SchoolHouse counselor, we’ll ask about the interests, strengths, and needs that make your child unique.
Then we'll design the school around you. That means: