upper program

The 2024-2025 RCS Upper Program is designed to meet the needs of students Grades 4-5 and 5-6 in our mixed age setting.
Charter funds may be used to offset the full cost of the program. A 10% sibling discount is available for full-time students.

Full Time

Tuesday - Friday

9:00 AM - 3:00 PM

We encourage full-time participation due to the tremendous benefits. Full-time students build stronger relationships with their peers, develop a strong sense of community, and gain tenacity in returning to challenging social and academic endeavors daily.

Full-Time Program Fee: $9,135/year, $1,015/month

CORE SUBJECTS

Tuesday - Friday

9:00 AM - 12:30 PM

Daily morning gathering includes community building through movement and games.
Social-emotional learning is part of our core curriculum. We support students’ social-emotional development by cultivating perspective taking, problem solving, and working together.

Math

Apply developing mathematical understandings and number sense to grapple with real problems involving estimation, patterns, and logic.
Experience the power of mathematical thinking through investigations, games, and play.
Explore fractions, decimals, percents with a focus on how they are connected.
Investigate measurement, pre-algebra, and geometry and how they are used in real-life situations.
Build fluency with procedures
Listen and share alternative problem solving strategies

Language Arts

Weekly poetry reading with discussions to explore deeper meaning and to discover language patterns and develop fluency and inflection.
Learn spelling for meaning connections by comparing and contrasting spelling patterns while developing generalizations.
Creative writing, illustrating, and publishing books by exploring the topics that interest them.
Use writing and reading for a purpose with a blend of student-choice and teacher directed activities including narrative, memoirs, and poetry.
Edit, revise, and practice spelling conventions and grammar through one on one teacher conferences tailored to students’ needs.
Develop comprehension strategies by examining point of view, investigating characters, setting and tone through literature response journals and discussions.

Social Studies

Learn about the impetus for United States colonists to fight for freedom from Britain.
Explore the evolution of democracy with an emphasis on how our three branches of government function.
Use props, costumes, and primary literature sources to immerse ourselves in the past.

Core Only Program Fee: $7,040/year, $782/month (September to May)

science/cooking/gardening

Tuesday & Wednesday

12:30 pm to 3:00 pm

Nature literacy based exploration that includes gardening, cooking, natural art, and farmers market that will inspire students to connect to local habitats, explore biodiversity, and engage in citizen-science and STEM projects.
Research, create hypotheses, experiment, collect data, and analyze results on various scientific topics.
Participate in the farm to fork process: plant, care for, harvest, clean, prepare, eat, and/or sell.
Cook and try new foods with a focus on whole foods rather than processed ingredients.
Chefs end each cooking session by sitting down together to eat, discuss, and enjoy the fruits of their labor.
Explore the world around us and expand on the interests of the classroom through science, building, art and mathematics with hands-on investigations.
Investigating the world through experiments: predicting, collecting, testing, and analyzing.
Class includes one hour of Open Play before the class to support social emotional development: perspective taking, problem solving, and working together.

Tuesday/Wednesday Afternoons: $2,190/year, $243/month (September to May). Charter funds may be used to offset program fees.

Musical theater/ STEAM Workshop/ art/

Team Building*

Thursday & Friday

12:30 pm - 3:00 pm

In the musical theater program, students learn the four major elements of musical theater performance: songs, spoken dialogue, acting, and dance. Students build props, design the stage set, and manage the behind-the-scenes aspects.
STEAM Workshop is a maker-centered class that invites students to apply critical thinking and innovation skills to solve problems through design and STEAM.
The Art class, students will explore the world of colors, shapes, and self-expression in a range of art mediums and materials. Hands on and process art approach to develop and enhance fine motor skills.
Through team building activities, students work on communication and collaboration to increase their sense of empathy, community, and belonging.
Class includes one hour of Open Play before the class to support social emotional development: perspective taking, problem solving, and working together.

Thursday/Friday Afternoons: $2,190/year, $243/month (September to May). Charter funds may be used to offset program fees.

*These activities rotate throughout the year; contact RCS for more information.

Younger Program

Middle Program

Open Play

We offer 10% sibling discount with full-time participation.

We accept Charter School vouchers as well as personal installment payments or a combination of the two.

Our approved homeschool charters: Cottonwood, Sequoia Grove Alliance, South Sutter, Horizon, Harvest Ridge, and Sutter Peak.

To apply for any of the options above, please go to the Admission page.

If you have any further questions, please email contact@yourrcs.org or call/text 916-304-4774.

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