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Language
Arts • Mathematics • Science
• Social Studies
Media Center • Technology
• Physical Fitness • Art
• Music
Foreign Language • Special
Education • Extracurricular Activities
Utica
Community Schools curriculum encourages students to take responsibility
for their own learning and challenges them to achieve their highest
potential. The district's Learning Links brochures, distributed at the
beginning of each school year, detail the elementary school learning
standards and expectations for each grade. The following briefly outlines
UCS' elementary school course work:
Language
Arts (top of
page)
The
language arts curriculum helps students develop the independent and
strategic skills necessary for good oral and written communication.
Daily classroom instruction includes:
- Reading
– Literature–based reading and writing exercises are emphasized along
with lessons in vocabulary, comprehension, phonics, reference and
study skills.
- Writing
– Using crayons to computers, students learn the UCS writing process:
pre-write, write, revise, edit, proofread and publish their work.
Composition assignments in all subjects enhance students' reading,
thinking, learning and problem–solving skills.
- Spelling
– Strategies to recognize, spell, use and understand words are taught
in all subject areas.
- Handwriting
– The D'Nealian–style of handwriting is emphasized beginning with
printing and expanding to cursive when developmentally appropriate
– generally in the second and third grades.
Mathematics
(top
of page)
The elementary
mathematics curriculum features hands-on learning strategies and techniques
– such as sorting, collecting data, measuring, computing, graphing and
calculating – to help students:
- reason and calculate
mathematically;
- relate math
to other subject areas; and
- apply math concepts
to daily life.
Science
(top
of page)
UCS'
science program trains students to ask questions about – and understand
and appreciate – the world around them, as well as develop solutions
to problems through hands-on instruction that highlights:
- investigation;
- experimentation;
- data collection
and analysis; and
- drawing conclusions.
Social
Studies (top
of page)
The social
studies curriculum encourages students to become self–directed, responsible
and thoughtful citizens by establishing the connection between them
and their families to local, state, national and international governments.
The curriculum covers:
- history;
- geography;
- civics;
- economics; and
- culture.
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