Grade 3-4

• Daily morning gathering includes community building through movement and games.

• Apply developing mathematical understandings and number sense to grapple with real problems involving estimation, patterns, measurement and logic.

• Experience the power of mathematical thinking through investigations, games, and play.

• Class includes a half hour of Open Play after the class to support social and emotional development.

Cost: $975/semester

• 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 within various scientific topics.

• Participate in the farm to fork process: seasonal planting, farming, harvesting, preparing, and selling at RCS Farmers’ Market.

• Cook and try new foods that will lay the groundwork for making healthier choices while integrating math and science. 

• Class includes a half hour of Open Play before the class to support social emotional development.

Cost: $975/semester

• Learn about Medieval Times, Vikings, and explorers both seafaring and modern day. 

• Use props, costumes, and primary literature sources to immerse ourselves in the past.

• Discuss political and environmental component that lead to what we refer to as the Medieval or Dark Ages. 

• Incorporate social studies, geography, language arts, and include a field trip to San Francisco Tall Ships. 

• Class includes one hour of Open Play before the class to support social and emotional development.

Cost: $1,215/semester

• Daily morning gathering includes community building through movement and games.

• Read and comprehend literature including stories and drama.

• Read and write poetry to discover language patterns and develop fluency and inflection.

• Study figurative language, word relationships, and word meanings.

• Engage grammar studies through games.

• Small-group, teacher-led, mini-lessons support vocabulary development and spelling strategies.

• Class includes a half hour of Open Play after the class to support social and emotional development.

Cost: $975/semester

• Creative writing, illustrating, and publishing books by exploring the topics that interest them.

• A blend of student choice and teacher directed activities including narrative, descriptive and persuasive writing, poetry, and student directed research.

• Edit, revise, and practice spelling conventions and grammar through one on one teacher conferences tailored to student's needs. 

• Develop comprehension strategies by examining point of view, investigating characters, setting and tone through literature response journals and discussions.

• Class includes one hour of Open Play before the class to support social and emotional development.

Cost: $975/semester

• Maker-centered class that invites students to apply critical thinking and innovation skills in the classroom to solve complex problems through design thinking and STEAM.

• Introduce to a range of art mediums while participating in an exploration of world art.

• Through team building activities, students work on communication and collaboration to increase a 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.

Cost: $1,215/semester