CACS

Clarkfield Area Charter School

The quality of the literature that is emphasized in this program is very interesting and promotes understanding and discussion for the teachers and students. The literature in each unit is organized around one of two types of themes:

• Universal themes, such as Keep Trying, Friendship and Survival encouraging in-depth and critical thinking.
• Research themes, such as Weather, Astronomy and Ancient Civilizations, develop inquiry and research in science and social studies content area.

This reading program is rooted in research. The authors are experts on how children learn to read and read to learn. This program has been successful in classrooms nationwide.

Daily lessons are composed of four sections: the warm-up, new concept(s), lesson practice and mixed practice.

The practices used daily with this curriculum have proven effective in classrooms over many years. Students learn mathematics best by working on problems themselves.

This Curriculum focuses on student success through continual review, previously presented concepts are practiced frequently and extensively over the year. Saxon's cumulative daily practice strengthens students' grasp of concepts, improves their flexibility to work with several mathematical concepts at the time and improves their long-term retention of concepts.

This curriculum follows a sequence to teach key history and geography topics at each level creating a solid base of knowledge of history and geography.

Teachers will be guided by lesson objectives, cross curricular suggestions, discussion ideas, vocabulary support, map and illustration support and extension activities.

Clarkfield Charter will use this curriculum to show students how geography affects their lives by making lessons relevant to them. Students will also study different cultures and countries to give them a broader perspective. In addition to our purchased curriculum, students will be introduced to our local ancestry and history. Local residents will share how their ancestors immigrated to this area. Topics such as the Homestead Act, importance of the railroad, history of farming and farming practices, and history of Clarkfield will be covered.

Science

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