UTK - 6th Grade
- Visual Arts
- STEAM (Science Technology, Engineering, Art, and Math)
- Performing Arts
- Physical Education.
Kindergarten Course of Study
Physical Education - At Urban Discovery Schools, Physical Education plays a vital role in providing students with a holistic approach to their education. Physical Education provides the opportunity to explore and promote mental, emotional, social and physical wellbeing. Through physical activity, students learn to develop confidence, resilience, responsibility and how to work cooperatively with each other.
The Physical Education program at Urban Discovery Schools provides the skills and knowledge students will need to lead an active lifestyle. Students will learn about different movements and strategies, the importance of teamwork, and health related fitness. Our program focuses on the development of fundamental locomotor, non-locomotor, and manipulative skills in a variety of age-appropriate activities. In addition, our program provides students the opportunity to learn and practice appropriate social interactions. Through regular participation in physical activity, students also have the opportunity to develop their emotional and psychological skills.
1st Grade Course of Study
- Operations & Algebraic Thinking
- Numbers & Operations in Base Ten
- Measurement and Data
- Geometry
- Literature & Informational Text:
- Key Ideas & Details
- Craft & Structure
- Integration of Knowledge & Ideas
- Range of Reading & Level of Text Complexity
- Reading (Foundational Skills)
- Print Concepts
- Phonological Awareness
- Phonics & Word Recognition (Dolch Sight Words-First List)
- Fluency
- English Language Skills
- Conventions of Standard English
- Vocabulary Acquisition & Use
- Speaking & Listening
- Comprehension & Collaboration
- Presentation of Knowledge & Ideas
- Writing
- Opinion
- Informational
- Narrative
- Waves and Their Applications in Technologies for Information Transfer
- From Molecules to Organisms: Structures and Processes
- Heredity: Inheritance and Variation of Traits
- Earth's Place in the Universe
- Engineering Design
- Citizenship
- Family, Community and Culture
- History
- Geography
- Economics
Physical Education - At Urban Discovery Schools, Physical Education plays a vital role in providing students with a holistic approach to their education. Physical Education provides the opportunity to explore and promote mental, emotional, social and physical wellbeing. Through physical activity, students learn to develop confidence, resilience, responsibility and how to work cooperatively with each other.
The Physical Education program at Urban Discovery Schools provides the skills and knowledge students will need to lead an active lifestyle. Students will learn about different movements and strategies, the importance of teamwork, and health related fitness. Our program focuses on the development of fundamental locomotor, non-locomotor, and manipulative skills in a variety of age-appropriate activities. In addition, our program provides students the opportunity to learn and practice appropriate social interactions. Through regular participation in physical activity, students also have the opportunity to develop their emotional and psychological skills.
2nd Grade Course of Study
Mathematics 2 - By the end of grade 2, students will learn addition and subtraction strategies through operations and algebraic thinking. Students will learn to compare and manipulate numbers through numbers and operations in base ten. Students will learn strategies to measure and estimate lengths. Students will learn to recognize and partition shapes through geometry based on the California Common Core State Standards of Mathematics. Major topics include but are not limited to:
- Operations and Algebraic Thinking
- Numbers and Operations in Base Ten
- Measurement and Data
- Geometry
- Foundations of reading
- Literature
- Informational Text
- Writing
- Speaking and Listening
- Language
- Structure and Properties of Matter
- Interdependent Relationships in Ecosystems
- Earth’s Systems: Processes that Shape the Earth
- Engineering Design
- People who make a difference
- Geography
- Culture
- Economics
- U.S. Government
Physical Education - At Urban Discovery Schools, Physical Education plays a vital role in providing students with a holistic approach to their education. Physical Education provides the opportunity to explore and promote mental, emotional, social and physical wellbeing. Through physical activity, students learn to develop confidence, resilience, responsibility and how to work cooperatively with each other.
The Physical Education program at Urban Discovery Schools provides the skills and knowledge students will need to lead an active lifestyle. Students will learn about different movements and strategies, the importance of teamwork, and health related fitness. Our program focuses on the development of fundamental locomotor, non-locomotor, and manipulative skills in a variety of age-appropriate activities. In addition, our program provides students the opportunity to learn and practice appropriate social interactions. Through regular participation in physical activity, students also have the opportunity to develop their emotional and psychological skills.
3rd Grade Course of Study
- Operations and Algebraic Thinking
- Numbers and Operations in Base Ten
- Measurement and Data
- Geometry
- Foundations of reading
- Literature
- Informational Text
- Writing
- Speaking and Listening
- Language
- Forces and Interactions
- Interdependent Relationships in Ecosystems
- Inheritance and Variation of Traits: Life Cycles and Traits
- Weather and Climate
- Continuity and change
- Geography of the local region
- American Indians of the local region
- Local community
- American symbols, citizens, and government
- Economics of the local region
Physical Education - At Urban Discovery Schools, Physical Education plays a vital role in providing students with a holistic approach to their education. Physical Education provides the opportunity to explore and promote mental, emotional, social and physical wellbeing. Through physical activity, students learn to develop confidence, resilience, responsibility and how to work cooperatively with each other.
The Physical Education program at Urban Discovery Schools provides the skills and knowledge students will need to lead an active lifestyle. Students will learn about different movements and strategies, the importance of teamwork, and health related fitness. Our program focuses on the development of fundamental locomotor, non-locomotor, and manipulative skills in a variety of age-appropriate activities. In addition, our program provides students the opportunity to learn and practice appropriate social interactions. Through regular participation in physical activity, students also have the opportunity to develop their emotional and psychological skills.
4th Grade Course of Study
Mathematics - Fourth-grade students will extend their understanding of place value to include multi-digit whole numbers based on the Common Core State Standards of Mathematics. Students read, write, and compare numbers based on the meaning of the digits in each place (a digit in one place represents ten times what it represents in the place to its right). Students also use understanding of place value to round multi-digit whole numbers. At grade four, the CCSS limits understanding of place value to whole numbers in the millions. In fourth grade, students perform multi-digit arithmetic with whole numbers. They fluently add and subtract multi-digit numbers. They multiply (multi-digit numbers by two-digit numbers) and divide (four-digit numbers by a one-digit number), including quotients with remainders. They can explain their understanding of multiplication and division calculations. 4th graders will be able to do addition and subtraction (with two whole numbers within 1,000–10,000), multiplication and division (whole numbers with up to four digits by one-digit numbers), and rounding numbers to the nearest thousands.
Major topics include but are not limited to:
- Place Value, rounding, comparing numbers
- Multi-digit addition
- Multi-digit subtraction
- Multi-digit multiplication
- Multi-digit division
- Multiplication and Division fact fluency
- Multiplicative thinking
- Equivalent fractions and ordering
- Adding and subtracting fractions with like denominators
- Fractions to decimals and comparing decimals
- Converting units of measure
- Identifying and classify angles, lines, and shapes
Students learn to draw evidence from literary and informational texts to support their main idea with facts, details, and explanations. They use multiple sources of information, including online resources. They also learn to quote and paraphrase relevant information, and cite the source of information correctly. Through the school year, students write routinely over both extended time frames (several days or weeks with time for research, reflection, revision) and shorter time frames (a single sitting or a day or two). They write for a range of discipline-specific tasks, purposes, and audiences on topics and texts in all fourth-grade subjects.
Topics include but are not limited to:
- Narrative writing
- Opinion writing
- Informative writing
- Point of View
- Grade level spelling and word choice
- Grammar and Punctuation
- Sentence fluency that is controlled and varied
- Compare and Contrast Texts
- Interpret Vocabulary
- Produce clear and coherent writing
- Successfully Complete the writing process (planning, drafting, editing, revising, re-writing)
- Rock Cycle
- Water Cycle
- Natural Disasters
- Energy
- Landforms
- Endangered Species
- Adaptations
California has long been home to American Indian peoples. Students learn about the major language groups of the Students learn about American Indians and their distribution, social organization, legends and beliefs, and the major language economic activities. Students study the extent to which early people of California groups depended on, adapted to, and modified the physical environment by cultivation and American Indians and the use of sea resources. their distribution, Contemporary cities and densely settled areas frequently are located in the same social organization, areas as these early American Indian settlements, especially on the coasts where legends and beliefs, rivers meet the sea. In analyzing how geographic factors have influenced the location and economy of settlements, then and now, students have an opportunity to observe how the past activities. and the present may be linked by similar dynamics.
Students will learn about the explorers. They review the motives for colonization, including rivalries with other imperial powers such as Britain and Russia, which brought Spanish soldiers and missionaries northward from Mexico City to Alta California. The years following 1850 brought a transportation revolution, increased The completion of the diversity, and agricultural and industrial growth to California.
Major topics include but are not limited to:
- Maps
- Gold Rush
- Native Americans
- Explorers
- Inventors
- African American Leaders
- Women Leaders
- Regions in California
Physical Education - At Urban Discovery Schools, Physical Education plays a vital role in providing students with a holistic approach to their education. Physical Education provides the opportunity to explore and promote mental, emotional, social and physical wellbeing. Through physical activity, students learn to develop confidence, resilience, responsibility and how to work cooperatively with each other.
The Physical Education program at Urban Discovery Schools provides the skills and knowledge students will need to lead an active lifestyle. Students will learn about different movements and strategies, the importance of teamwork, and health related fitness. Our program focuses on the development of fundamental locomotor, non-locomotor, and manipulative skills in a variety of age-appropriate activities. In addition, our program provides students the opportunity to learn and practice appropriate social interactions. Through regular participation in physical activity, students also have the opportunity to develop their emotional and psychological skills.
5th Grade Course of Study
Mathematics 5 - Students will write and interpret numerical expressions and analyze patterns and relationships based on the Common Core State Standards of Mathematics. They will demonstrate an understanding of the place value system and perform operations with multi-digit whole numbers and with decimals to the hundredths. They will explore and use equivalent fractions as a strategy to add and subtract fractions. They will also apply and extend previous understandings of multiplication and division to multiply and divide fractions. They will develop skills to convert like measurements, represent and interpret data, understand concepts of volume. Students will grow their understanding of graphing and classifying two-dimensional figures into categories.
Major topics include but are not limited to:
- Write and interpret numerical expressions.
- Analyze patterns and relationships.
- Understand the place value system.
- Perform operations with multi-digit whole numbers and with decimals to hundredths.
- Use equivalent fractions as a strategy to add and subtract fractions.
- Apply and extend previous understandings of multiplication and division to multiply and divide fractions.
- Convert like measurement units within a given measurement system.
- Represent and interpret data.
- Geometric measurement: understand concepts of volume and relate volume to multiplication and to addition.
- Graph points on the coordinate plane to solve real-world and mathematical problems.
- Classify two-dimensional figures into categories based on their properties.
- Make sense of problems and persevere in solving them.
- Reason abstractly and quantitatively.
- Construct viable arguments and critique the reasoning of others.
- Model with mathematics.
- Use appropriate tools strategically.
- Attend to precision.
- Look for and make use of structure.
- Look for and express regularity in repeated reasoning.
- Text Types and Purposes
- Production and Distribution of Writing
- Research to Build and Present Knowledge
- Range of Writing
- Presentation of Knowledge and Ideas
- Key Ideas and Details
- Craft and Structure
- Integration of Knowledge and Ideas
- Range and Level of Text Complexity
- Phonological Awareness
- Phonics and Word Recognition
- Fluency
Physical Education - At Urban Discovery Schools, Physical Education plays a vital role in providing students with a holistic approach to their education. Physical Education provides the opportunity to explore and promote mental, emotional, social and physical wellbeing. Through physical activity, students learn to develop confidence, resilience, responsibility and how to work cooperatively with each other.
The Physical Education program at Urban Discovery Schools provides the skills and knowledge students will need to lead an active lifestyle. Students will learn about different movements and strategies, the importance of teamwork, and health related fitness. Our program focuses on the development of fundamental locomotor, non-locomotor, and manipulative skills in a variety of age-appropriate activities. In addition, our program provides students the opportunity to learn and practice appropriate social interactions. Through regular participation in physical activity, students also have the opportunity to develop their emotional and psychological skills.
6th Grade Course of Study
- Use textual evidence to analyze and make inferences, as well as write arguments to support claims.
- Determine the meaning of words and phrases and analyze the impact of an author’s craft.
- Compare and contrast texts in different forms (historical documents, fiction, and nonfiction) and their different approaches to similar themes or topics.
- Determine author’s point of view and perspective and how it affects the impact of the text.
- Evaluate and learn to use narrative techniques for their own writing.
- Conduct short research projects.
Major topics include but are not limited to:
- Understand the nature of inquiry through identifying Science and Engineering Practices
- Model cyclical patterns within the Earth-Moon-Sun system with consideration to gravity’s role
- Explain, using geological and fossil data, how Earth’s surface has changed to form modern geographic features
- Model the cycling of matter and energy in the rock cycle and water cycle
- Collect evidence for how motion of air masses, unequal heating, Earth’s rotation, and human activity result in weather conditions, regional climate, and global temperature increases
- Analyze data on natural hazards and human impact on the Earth’s resources and environment
- Use textual evidence to analyze and make inferences, as well as write arguments to support claims.
- Determine the meaning of words and phrases and analyze the impact of an author’s craft.
- Compare and contrast texts in different forms (historical documents, fiction, and nonfiction) and their different approaches to similar themes or topics.
- Determine author’s point of view and perspective and how it affects the impact of the text.
- Evaluate and learn to use narrative techniques for their own writing.
- Conduct short research projects.
Physical Education - At Urban Discovery Schools, Physical Education plays a vital role in providing students with a holistic approach to their education. Physical Education provides the opportunity to explore and promote mental, emotional, social and physical wellbeing. Through physical activity, students learn to develop confidence, resilience, responsibility and how to work cooperatively with each other.
The Physical Education program at Urban Discovery Schools provides the skills and knowledge students will need to lead an active lifestyle. Students will learn about different movements and strategies, the importance of teamwork, and health related fitness. Our program focuses on the development of fundamental locomotor, non-locomotor, and manipulative skills in a variety of age-appropriate activities. In addition, our program provides students the opportunity to learn and practice appropriate social interactions. Through regular participation in physical activity, students also have the opportunity to develop their emotional and psychological skills.