Instructional Programs

Physical Education is more than games—it’s a whole-child learning lab. Alongside building motor skills, fitness, and lifelong health habits, PE integrates other disciplines to deepen understanding and boost engagement. Students apply math by counting reps, timing intervals, and graphing progress; explore science through heart-rate zones, muscular systems, and nutrition; strengthen literacy with movement cues, vocabulary, and reflective journals; and practice social–emotional learning via teamwork, leadership, and goal setting. Culturally responsive activities—like global games and dance—connect to social studies and celebrate identity. Through inclusive stations, cooperative challenges, and data-informed feedback, PE nurtures confidence, creativity, and resilience—helping every child move, think, and thrive.

Our STEAM Lab weaves Amplify Science storylines into technology, engineering, art, and mathematics to create a future-ready learning studio for students in grades 2–5. Phenomena from Amplify units become launchpads for the engineering design cycle: students ask questions, plan and carry out investigations, prototype with everyday materials and simple robotics, code microcontrollers, and iterate based on data. Math is applied authentically through measurement, modeling, and data analysis; art is used to visualize ideas, build models, and communicate findings with clarity and creativity. Aligned to the Next Generation Science Standards (and reinforcing the Mathematical Practices and digital citizenship), the lab builds the demanding skill set today’s learners need—critical thinking, collaboration, communication, and resilience—so every child can investigate real problems, design solutions, and confidently venture into the future.

Performance Arts in PK–2 turns literacy into lived experience. Through reader’s theater, choral and echo reading, song, movement, puppetry, and storytelling, children build fluency—accuracy, rate, and prosody—while exploring voice, gesture, and audience awareness. Short “fluency sprints” with poems and chants strengthen phonological awareness, vocabulary, and phrasing, and dramatizing favorite stories deepens comprehension, sequencing, and point of view. As students co-create mini-scripts, storyboards, and simple choreography, they gain safe pathways for self-expression and collaborative creation—growing confident speakers, attentive listeners, and joyful makers whose language skills flourish on (and off) the stage.

Humanities is an integrated elementary program where social studies and visual arts work together to help students make deep, lasting sense of the world. Children explore history, geography, civics, and culture alongside visual arts and media arts, investigating primary sources, maps, artifacts, and stories, then translating their insights into creative works—sketches, collage, printmaking, murals, and digital media. Units center big ideas like community, identity, change & continuity, cause & effect, and perspective, building visual literacy and historical thinking through an inquiry cycle of investigate → create → present → reflect. Students read informational texts, build academic vocabulary, and write across genres (captions, journals, opinion pieces), while practicing critique and presentation skills in gallery walks and exhibitions. By connecting past and present through making and meaning, Humanities equips learners with the habits of mind—evidence, empathy, creativity, and communication—that prepare them to form deep conceptual understandings and engage thoughtfully with their world.

Music in elementary school is a creative hub where students learn musicianship while building powerful discipline connections. Rhythm links to math (fractions, patterns, measurement of tempo); lyrics and vocal work strengthen literacy (phonological awareness, vocabulary, fluency, and expressive reading); instrument exploration and sound experiments connect to science (vibration, pitch, waves, materials). Ensemble work nurtures social–emotional learning—listening, turn-taking, leadership, and perseverance—while global songs and traditions deepen social studies understandings of culture, history, and community. Students compose and arrange using manipulatives and beginner-friendly technology (loops, coding basics, digital audio), document process in journals, and present in share-outs that build communication skills. By weaving these disciplines through playful music-making, the program develops confident performers, curious thinkers, and collaborative problem-solvers.

Discovery is a PK–2 program where curious kids learn like scientists, engineers, artists, historians, and explorers—all at once. Through hands-on STEAM investigations aligned to the Next Generation Science Standards, children build, test, and iterate using the engineering design cycle while weaving in early literacy and math (labeling observations, measuring, graphing, and storytelling with diagrams). Social studies comes alive as students take on roles of historians and explorers—reading maps, building timelines, comparing “then and now,” and studying community helpers and world cultures—so they keep a lens on the past and an eye on the future. Learning happens in play-based centers, maker challenges, and outdoor explorations, with student thinking documented in journals and portfolios. The result is a joyful, integrated experience that grows problem-solving, collaboration, and wonder—foundations for lifelong learning.