A culminating project where students reflect on the 8-week journey and create a 'Value Vault' for themselves or Gregor.
Focuses on grocery shopping, making a grocery list, identifying food groups, and understanding store sections to locate items independently.
Teaches safety signs, navigation, and community navigation skills. Students learn to read pedestrian signs, crosswalk signals, and locate help in public spaces.
Teaches critical safety skills for the home environment, including dealing with emergencies, basic first aid, and managing visitors safely.
Focuses on household cleaning tasks, organizing chores, and maintaining a clean living space. Students practice sorting chores by frequency and completing a chore checklist.
Covers essential kitchen safety rules, using simple kitchen tools, and selecting healthy food. Students practice identifying safe and unsafe kitchen scenarios.
Teaches students to check the weather and choose appropriate clothing and accessories. Focuses on seasonal dressing and selecting clothing for safety and comfort.
Focuses on morning routines and personal hygiene. Students learn to use visual checklists for brushing teeth, washing up, and self-care.
A preparatory summer reading curriculum designed to bridge historical literary movements, analytical vocabulary, and journey-themed texts for incoming 11th graders.
Focuses on using Metaphors and Similes to create powerful figurative imagery. Includes a final "My Poetry Masterpieces" portfolio cover and peer celebration review pages.
Focuses on shape, movement, and visual arrangement with Concrete (Shape) Poems and Free Verse. Provides scaffolded outline guides, word maps, and sensory feeling prompts.
Focuses on structure, rhythm, and sound through Acrostic Poems and Rhyming Couplets. Offers step-by-step graphic templates, letter grids, rhyming dictionaries, and syllable beat counters.
Focuses on Sensory and Color Poetry (Haiku and Color Poems). Students explore imagery using their five senses, utilizing highly visual sensory organizers, word banks, and syllable counters.
A comprehensive 5th-grade grammar unit focused on mastering conjunctions (coordinating and subordinating) and prepositional phrases through engaging, explorer-themed worksheets and reference tools.
A comprehensive final examination for fourth-grade reading and grammar skills, testing direct objects, sentence editing, structural sentence framing, comprehension, comparison and contrast, and persuasive letter writing.
Students practice making independent choices, expressing preferences, and setting boundaries (saying "yes" or "no") using structured choice boards, tactile sorting mats, and interactive role-play.
Students practice identifying when they need help, who to ask (teachers, peers, or helpers), and how to communicate that need using visual phrase cards and guided collaborative practice.
Students learn to recognize and communicate physical and emotional states (like tired, hungry, overwhelmed, or ready to learn) using simple gestures, vocalizations, or visual symbol cards.
