At Culture Corner Academy, we believe that learning should be a unique and engaging experience. Our unique online academy offers a multicultural curriculum that is tailored to each child's individual needs, allowing them to learn at their own pace. We are dedicated to providing an enriching and culturally diverse environment, where children can learn and explore their interests.

Our team of experienced teachers have designed a curriculum in collaboration with the Khan Academy curriculum that is fun and interactive, while providing our students with the tools and resources they need to succeed. Our goal is to ensure that each student is able to reach their full potential and develop understanding and respect for other cultures.

Monday- Around the World ELA and Geography 
Tuesday-Math
Wednesday- Science and Art
Thursday- African American History 

SPRING SEMESTER 🌸 

📚 🌎 Around the World ELA and Geography 

Culture Exploration Reading - Cultures and Traditions of Various Countries Passages as a group. A supplemental video of a brief geography/ virtual field trip of the country will be shown as well. Students will also be individually pulled for personalized level readings every week with the teacher accompanied by comprehension questions during spelling warm ups. 
-Students will be given a Diversity and Inclusion Writing Prompt every week to write in their writing journals. Feedback will be given upon submission after class for spelling and grammar corrections by the teacher. 
-Students will be given 10 weekly spelling words that will be practiced through a daily warm up activity in the classroom. Understanding will be assessed in a the form of third party tools (Gimkit, Kahoot, etc).

Unit 1: Superheroes of Color

Building knowledge: Superheroes
Close reading: informational text: Superheroes
Close reading: fiction: Superheroes
Applying vocabulary knowledge: Superheroes
Reading for understanding: drama and fiction: Superheroes
Reading for understanding: informational text

Unit 2: Growth Mindset

Building knowledge: Growth Mindset
Close reading: informational text: Growth Mindset
Close reading: fiction: Growth Mindset
Applying vocabulary knowledge: Growth Mindset
Reading for understanding: fiction: Growth Mindset
Reading for understanding: informational text

Unit 3: Journeys West
Building knowledge: Journeys West
Close reading: informational text: Journeys West
Close reading: poetry: Journeys West
Applying vocabulary knowledge: Journeys West
Reading for understanding: fiction and informational text: Journeys West
Reading for understanding: informational text

🧮  Math with an Ethnomathematics Focus 

(In math we will be highlighting particular people or achievements from various racial, ethnic, or gendered groups)

Unit 1 :Place value
Intro to place value: Place value
Writing whole numbers in expanded form: Place value
Writing whole numbers in written form: Place value
Regrouping whole numbers: Place value
How 10 relates to place value: Place value
Comparing multi-digit numbers

Unit 2: Addition, subtraction, and estimation

Rounding whole numbers: Addition, subtraction, and estimation
Adding multi-digit numbers: Addition, subtraction, and estimation
Subtracting multi-digit numbers

Unit 3: Multiply by 1-digit numbers

Comparing with multiplication: Multiply by 1-digit numbers
Multiplication by 10s, 100s, and 1000s: Multiply by 1-digit numbers
Multi-digit multiplication: place value and area models: Multiply by 1-digit numbers
Estimate products: Multiply by 1-digit numbers
Multiply with partial products

Unit 4: Multiply by 2-digit numbers

Multiply by 10s: Multiply by 2-digit numbers
Multiply 2-digit numbers with area models: Multiply by 2-digit numbers
Estimate products (2-digit numbers): Multiply by 2-digit numbers
Multiply 2-digit numbers with partial products

Unit 5: Division

Remainders: Division
Divide multiples of 10, 100, and 1,000 by 1-digit numbers: Division
Division with place value: Division
Division with area models: Division
Estimate quotients: Division
Multi-digit division with partial quotients: Division
Multiplication, division word problems: Division
Multi-step word problems

🧬 Science 

Fourth grade science students are becoming more sophisticated in their ability to explain and describe scientific concepts. They will speculate about the observations they make. They will also connect the topics they are learning about to their own experiences.

Chapter 1: The Nature of Science
Chapter 2: Engineering and Technology
Chapter 3: Energy
Chapter 4: Living Things
Chapter 5: Earth

🚘 50 States of African American History 

Travel with me on an engaging journey through African-American history through all 50 states! We will explore influential African American heroes , landmarks, and events in TWO new states every class! In each lesson students should expect to learn about 2 African American heroes who either lived in the state or had a significant impact on the state, a major historical civil rights event in the state, fun state trivia throughout the lesson, and a physical historical landmark that is currently in the state today. 

 Students will be creating their own post cards from every state we visit at the end of class. I will give students a slide at the end of class showing them various state icons that they can use on their postcards if they choose. Classes are presented using Canva. Review games are used via Gim Kit and Kahoot. There will occasionally be a supplemental video as well using Youtube. 

Students will need a notebook or sketchbook for their postcards. Students will be given a notes template to take notes on if they choose but not required. They also will be given a postcard template that they can use to make their postcards on. These can be put in your notebook (glue). Or students can choose to free hand notes (not required) and post cards in their postcards. 

Week 1- Mississippi and Louisiana
Week 2-Florida and Georgia
Week 3- South Carolina and North Carolina
Week 4- Virginia and Washington DC
Week 5- Maryland and Pennsylvania
Week 6- Delaware and New York
Week 7- Massachusetts and New Hampshire
Week 8- Vermont and Rhode Island
Week 9- New Jersey and West Virginia
Week 10- Ohio and Kentucky
Week 11- Tennessee and Indiana
Week 12- Arkansas and Illinois
Week 13-Texas and Arizona 
Week 14-Nebraska and Kansas 
Week 15-California and Oregon 
Week 16-Hawaii and Nevada 

🎨 Art

We will do a variety of unique art pieces mostly using sketching techniques. Topics include perspective drawings, historical figures, and landscapes. 

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