Welcome to Culture Corner Academy! The ULTIMATE interactive FLEX experience! Upon enrollment get access to our virtual school. Each week enter a different area of the school to learn your tasks for the week. All weeks are posted in the platform so you can work at your own pace. Work ahead, take your time, the choice is yours! We also will host fun interactive games and activities  including: 

-Game of the Week in the Gym (GimKit, Kahoot, Blooket, etc) 
-Create Your Own Lunch Tray in the Cafeteria! (Virtual activity) 
-Decorate Your Desk
-Read of the Week in the Libray 

Flexible Schedule Information : This flexible schedule class will mirror the live class offered with a few difference due to its flexible schedule. This class will be hosted by me on a various 3rd party sites to help build engagement through out the semester. The class will mainly be ran through an interactive site called Genially.  Learners will then be able to self direct their learning by completing different tasks set out. Examples of these would be direct instruction/lecture (by me recorded with slides using Canva and ED puzzle), supplemental videos via Youtube or a other site, discussion questions which should be answered via the Outschool classroom, Warm Up/Ice Breaker Questions using Padlet. Account creation is not required for any of these 3rd party materials. Direct instruction lessons via Ed puzzle will contain check for understanding questions throughout. 

Weekly content will be updated at 9 AM EST every Monday. 

Join us this school year to build community in a small group while learning important  Reading, Writing, Science, World History and Math skills! 

Our full curriculum course covers core subjects in a fun engaging way. At Culture Corner Academy your learner will learn a variety of subjects in a nonconventional way. From our ELA curriculum that stems around diversity to our Environmental Science Unit that explores the unknown of the ocean. We believe learning should be not only fun but engagingly rich with content. Our teachers are highly qualified to give your learner the ultimate homeschooling experience. Your learner will continuously learning information not found in the conventional classroom. 

Class structure will follow this schedule: 

Class Information: 

🤎 Literature 

Never judge a book by its movie! In this class we take on books so amazing, they made a movie! Each month we will read 1 book in class and upon completion we will all watch their video productions (Parent permission will be required; an alternative will also be given to those not participating in the film screening). After the movie, students will participate in an open dialogue in Padlet or Jamboard comparing and contrasting both pieces.

WEEK 1-4 : 

Because of Winn-Dixie by: Kate DiCamillo - (Candlewick, 2000) 182 pages.
Film: Because of Winn-Dixie (2005)

WEEK 4-8: 

Charlie and the Chocolate Factory by: Roald Dahl - (A.A. Knopf, 1964) 180 pages.
Film: Charlie and the Chocolate Factory (1971)

Week 8-16:

Eloise: A Book for Precocious Grown-ups by: Kay Thompson, illustrated by: Hilary Knight - (Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers, 1969) 68 pages.
Film: Eloise at the Plaza and Eloise at Christmastime

🤎 Writing (with FEEDBACK)

Students will learn about various topics, put them in action. Students will need a writing notebook for class. A grown up will also need to assist in writing submissions to the teacher for grammar/punctuation feedback. This class uses a platform called StoryJumper where students can become authors and put their work into physical and ebooks available for purchase with parent permission and assistance. Parents can purchase their child's books through their personal account so no information sharing will take place. The academy will be providing a gift card for learners to purchase one of their books. 

Week 1-8: 

-Learners will learn the basics and steps of Sentence Structure and Paragraph Writing over 8 weeks. We will be learning about different parts of speech and turning fragments into sentences.   
-Book Creation: All About Me Book

Week 8-12:

-Learners will be introduced to Narrative Writing with a goal of writing their own by the end of the month  
Book Creation: Narrative 

Week 12-16:

-Learners will learn the 5 steps to creating a fairytale and putting them into action creating and writing their own 
Book Creation: Write your own fairytale

🤎 Math 

Week 1-4: Intro to Multiplication

-Multiplication as equal groups
-Multiplication on the number line
-Multiplication as groups of objects
-Multiplication with arrays
-1-digit multiplication from 0-9

 	 
Week 4-8: Addition, Subtraction, and Estimation

-Rounding to nearest 10 or 100
-Estimate to add multi-digit numbers
-Strategies for adding two and three-digit numbers
-Estimate to subtract multi-digit numbers
-Strategies for subtracting two and three-digit numbers


Week 8-12: Intro to Division

-Division with groups of objects
-Division with Arrays
-Relating multiplication and division
- Divide by 1, 2, and 4
-Divide by 5 or 10
-Divide by 3 or 6


🤎 History 

Students will learn about diverse heroes of different cultural backgrounds and their contributions to the world. Each week we will be highlighting new heroes. Students will learn about each hero's early life, societal contribution, and posthumous accomplishments.

🤎 African American History 

Week 1: Bessie Coleman and Mae Jemison
Craft/Activity:  Build your own Planet

Week 2: Jackie Robsinson and Ruby Bridges
Craft/Activity: Paper Lunch Boxes and Baseball Craft

Week 3: Rosa Parks and Martin Luther King Jr
Craft/Activity:Bus Craft and Diversity Hands Craft

Week 4: George Washington Carver and Harriet Tubman
Craft/Activity: Design your own Factory and Harriet Tubman coloring page

Week 4- 8: Hispanic Inventors 

Week 5: Albert Báez
Craft/Activity:  Create Your Own Science Lab!

Week 6: Ángela Ruiz Robles
Craft/Activity: Create Your own Mini Book!

Week 7: Carlos Juan Finlay
Craft/Activity: Me as a Mosquitoes Creation! 

Week 8:  Isaac Peral
Craft Activity: Decoarte Your Own Submarine!

Week 8: ELLEN OCHOA
Craft/Activity: Create Your Own Planet!

Week 9- 12: Asian American and Pacific Islanders History Figures (Inventors) 

Week 9: Peter Tsai
Craft/Activity: Decorate Your Own Mask!

Week 10: Nainoa Thompson, Native Hawaiian navigator 
Craft/Activity: Make Your Own Compass 

Week 11: Steven Shih Chen, Taiwanese & American entrepreneur 
Craft/Activity: Make a Mock Youtube Thumbnail Picture Digitally 

Week 12: Ajay Bhatt, Indian & American computer architect (1957- )
Craft/Activity: GimKit 

Week 12 - 16: Semester History Research Project 


🤎 Science 

Week 1-4: Plants 

Label and describe the functions of different plant parts.
Plant life cycle
Examine the stages of a plant's life cycle.	
Animal life cycles
Comparing life cycles
Inherited traits
Inherited vs acquired traits
Animal adaptations
Behavioral adaptations

Lab: Grow Your Own Plant!

Week 4-8 : Ecosytems

Needs of living things
Examine the needs of plants and animals.	
Needs of living things example
Carnivore, herbivore or omnivore?
Classify animals by what they eat.	
Carnivore herbivore or omnivore example
Animal classification
Classify animals by body structure.	
Food chains and webs
Understand food chains and inter-dependence.	
Animal food chains
Animal groups
Why and how some animals live in groups

Lab: 2 liter bottle ecosystem

Week 8-12: Weather

Weather forecasting
Forecasting tools and reading forecasts	
Reading weather data
Collecting and analyzing weather data	 
Climate vs. weather
Distinguishing weather from climate	
Weather hazards
Understanding cause and effect of weather hazards	
Design for weather hazards
Design systems to protect us from weather hazards

Lab: Create your own 'Thunderstorm'

🤎 Geography

Every week learners will go on a virtual field trip to a new country every week. They will learn where this country is on a map, local currency, historical landmarks, capitals, and customs. Worksheets will be given for students to complete a scavenger hunt while on the field trip. 

Week 1-4: Canada, Mexico, USA, Iceland
Week 2-8: Spain, Portugal, France, Morocco  
Week 8-12: Columbia, Brazil, Thailand, Vietnam
Week 12- 16: South Africa, Ghana, Ethiopia, New Zealand 

🤎 Art

They will be given a theme and can create their own verhttps://outschool.com/classes/14df08f1-8f73-47d7-83a8-fdb747f9d9a3/schedulesions of a vacation theme using sketching . Examples of themes include: Ski Resort, Beach Trip, Big City Dreams, Train Journey, etc.