Each LFCSA grade level will focus on an overall learning theme for the school year. This pre-designated, overarching theme is designed to provide a framework for the students’ integrated learning. This simply means that in exploring these themes, each student will do so using multiple learning areas: writing, art, mathematics and critical thinking.
LFCSA’s Yearly Curricular Themes
Kindergarten
Families: Caring for One Another
Concepts/Ideas Explored: care, respect, responsibility and awareness of families.
“Keeping Track” by integrating puppet pals, journals, class charts and stories.
1st Grade
What’s Up in Our Neighborhood?
Concepts/Ideas Explored: relationships, interdependence, responsibility and diversity
“Keeping Track” by integrating neighborhood notebooks, mural maps and neighborhood resource guides.
2nd Grade
America’s Family Stories
Concepts/Ideas Explored: family, respect, cultural unity, identity, diversity and relationships.
“Keeping Track” by integrating remembering boxes, personal narratives and stories
3rd Grade
Our Town: Exploring Links in the Community
Concepts/Ideas Explored: community, civic responsibility, continuity and change, patterns, interdependence, government, relationships.
“Keeping Track” by integrating kids guide to the community and community puzzle.
Community Problem Solving: Water, Air, Garbage
Concepts/Ideas Explored: problem-solving, civic responsibility, community, interdependence, environment.
“Keeping Track” by integrating reporter’s notebooks, newsletters and newspapers.
4th Grade
Geography Journey: Adventuring in the U.S.
Concepts/ideas Explored: change, cause and effect, conservation and environment
“Keeping Track” by integrating field journals, field kits and presentations.
Discovering a Place Called State
Concepts/ideas Explored: continuity and change, responsibility
“Keeping Track” by integrating discovery journals and discovery packs.
5th Grade
Choice, Chance, Change: America’s Story—to 1776
Concepts/ideas Explored: cause and effect, patterns
“Keeping Track” by integrating quest bags, apprentice journals, class history books and talking timeline.
America Moves On: 1776 to the Present
Concepts/ideas Explored: cause and effect, patterns, diversity and government
“Keeping Track” by integrating curator notebooks, artifact backpacks and America Moves on Museum.
6th Grade
History Mysteries: Discovering the Past
Concepts/ideas Explored: similarities and differences, systems, cultural unity and diversity, respect
“Keeping Track” by integrating journal, family crest, narratives and portfolios.
Ancient Cultures: An Odyssey Through Time
Concepts/ideas Explored: similarities and differences, systems, cultural unity and diversity, respect
“Keeping Track” by integrating travel logs and travel bags.
