Each enrolled family and Academy Northwest Teacher Consultant meet weekly. Parents must keep records documenting the required learning activities of reading, language (usage), writing, spelling, history, social studies, math, science, health/PE, occupational education, art and music appreciation. These subjects may be integrated into a unit method with one topic spanning several subject areas. Each Teacher Consultant assists parents in setting and evaluating student learning objectives each quarter and the writing of an annual assessment to be placed in the student’s permanent record at the end of the academic year or at the time of withdrawal. Highly capable 7th and 8th grade students may take high school classes for credit.
Language Arts
- Composition and Creative Writing
- Handwriting/Penmanship:
- Manuscript/cursive, upper and lower case following form, slant, spaces, size
- Other Language Skills:
- Research
- Grammar
- Oral presentations
- Discussions
- Dictation
Reading
- Understanding language by interpreting written symbols for speech sounds
- Decoding (or actual reading): phonetic analysis, structural analysis, sight vocabulary, context clues
- Oral reading: expression, fluency
- Vocabulary development
- Comprehension - literal: details, main ideas, sequence, summary
- Study Skills
- Scan/skim, preview
- Listening skills
- Forms: poetry, prose/nonfiction and fiction, myth, fable, legend, allegory, short story, novel, play, speech, essay,
Spelling/Vocabulary
- Name, write or print in order letters of a word; understand meaning of words
- Greek/Latin roots
- Dictionary skills
Math
- Science of numbers, operations, their relationships, space configurations, number structure and measuring, reasoning, problem-solving, logic
- Computation Skills
- Addition, subtraction, multiplication, division, interrelationship between
- Fractions, decimals, percents, interrelationship
- Averaging, estimation
- Place Value
- Measurement
- Spatial Reasoning/Real-World Applications
- Time: clock (digital, analogue)
- Calendar
- Graphs (picto, linear, bar, pie...)
- Money
- Measurement: linear, weight/volume, standard (English), metrics, perimeter, surface area, volume, equivalency for time, capacity, weight, linear, area
- Problem-Solving
- Word problems
Science
Study concerned with observations and classification of facts, natural laws, accumulated systematized knowledge, particularly in the physical world
- Physical Science - matter and energy (includes, physics, chemistry, earth science, astronomy)
- Life Science - organisms and ecosystems (biology, ecology, anatomy, physiology)
- Activity or Experiments using
- Scientific Method
- Raising animals
- Nature journal
- Plant, bird, animal identification
- Habitat study (forest, desert, marine, fresh water, rain forest, plateau, alpine, etc.)
Health & Physical Education
The study of human physical, and mental conditions
- Hygiene
- Nutrition and exercise
- Human relationships
- Cause/prevention of disease
- First aid
- Safety: pedestrian, domestic, social, bicycle, water, fire
- Rules of/participation in sports/athletic events
History
Study of past events and people
- Personal
- Family
- Regional/State
- National
- Ancient
- Medieval
- Modern
- Western
- Non-Western
- Museum visits
- Read biographies
Social Studies
Study of human society, the interaction of the group and its members, and the welfare of these members; integrates with historical or current events
- Economics
- Geography
- Political Science - government and citizenship
- Maps/charts (create/interpret)
Music
The science or art of combining tones into a composition having structure and continuity; vocal or instrumental sounds having rhyming, melody or harmony
- Private instruction/practice
- Orchestra/band/choir
- Learn to read music
- Famous composers/works
Art
The use of skill and imagination in the production of things of spatial/visual beauty and form; learning about the humanities
- Art history, artist/their works
- Clay, playdough, sculpting
- Sketch, draw, paint
Occupational Education
- Woodworking
- Crafts
- Baking/cooking
- Sewing
- Care of animals
- Chores
- Keyboarding
- Gardening
