Academics
Our Curricula
The curriculum that has been designed for the Center for Knowledge is meant to be accelerated and challenging, therefore, students should be able to attend and master tasks quickly. Students must be dedicated to their learning and parents must support students by making sure projects and other assignments are completed on time. We are an Official Core Knowledge School. We teach all components of the Core Knowledge Curriculum while exceeding South Carolina's Curriculum Standards.
English Language Arts
Our classrooms are rich in literature and we focuson structuring literacy so that students develop good lifelong habits in reading, writing and working independently. Our literacy-rich classrooms afford us the opportunity to instruct students in above-grade-level material instead of a reading basal. We implement the Daily 5 framework, allowing opportunities for teachersto instruct in guided reading, vocabulary and writing daily. After the first 30 days of school, students read and write for large blocks of time each day. This is critical to the development of becoming independent readers and writers. While students read, write and work with words, the teachers meet with individual students to set goals or he/she will work with small groups.
Benefits of the Daily 5 Framework:-Students develop independence, stamina and accountability.
-Teachers assess students’ needs and develop goalsto advance them to the next level.
-Teachers can easily accelerate students who havealready met grade level standards.
Math
Singapore Math - Kindergarten through 2nd grades www.singaporemath.com
Saxon Math - 2nd through 5th grades Student activity center at http://saxonpublishers.harcourtachieve.com/HA/Resources/Saxon/MathLandingPage.aspx