Elementary Core Curriculum Overview

Secondary Core Curriculum Overview

• K-6 Continuums

• K-6 Grade Level Basic Skills Parents Guides

• Washington State EALRs

• Integrated Units of Study

• Curriculum Notebooks Ordering Information

• Thinking Skills Tool Chest

• Reading Assistance Program (RAP)

• Gifted Services

• Grade 7 Math Placement

• 7-10 Grade Level Continuums

• Washington State EALRs

• Integrated Math

• Inquiry Science

• Thinking Skills Tool Chest

• The Humanities Program

• Grade 9 Integrated Program

• Grade 10 Endeavor Program

• Outdoor Academy

• Challenge Strand

• AP and College in the Classroom

• Running Start

Elementary Core Curriculum Overview

We are implementing a K-12 developmentally appropriate integrated curriculum design which emphasizes building meaningful content connections for the students. The curriculum has been written to reflect the six district outcomes of self-directed learner, collaborative worker, complex thinker, community contributor, quality producer, and effective communicator. At its foundation is an emphasis on developing basic skills in language arts and math. Teachers are using a variety of resource materials to assist each child's growth in reading, writing, and mathematics. Teachers emphasize student projects including community service activities that enable students to become self-directed learners and collaborative workers.   Technology serves as a tool for such activities as information processing, simulations, and problem solving. Teachers will collect evidence of student growth as part of the assessment plan.  Student portfolios are shared with parents at conference time.

At the elementary level, we emphasize literacy development, mathematics, and our core curriculum units which integrate social studies, science and the arts with reading, writing, and communications.  In the Integrated Units, themes have been identified to give focus to the content being explored.  Each theme, or unit, includes an outcome and guiding question that guide the instruction.  Through these units we teach thinking skills and thinking behaviors and we emphasize learning the district outcomes.  Each grade level focuses on three units each year:

Unit notebooks provide the teachers with specific lessons for teaching content knowledge, content skills, and thinking skills.  The curriculum notebooks on these units of study are available for review in the Curriculum Library at the Tahoma Central Services Center
425-413-3400.   They are also available for purchase.

We are implementing a K-12 developmentally appropriate integrated curriculum design which emphasizes building meaningful content connections for the students. The curriculum has been written to reflect the six district outcomes of self-directed learner, collaborative worker, complex thinker, community contributor, quality producer, and effective communicator. At its foundation is an emphasis on basic skill development in language arts and math. Teachers are using a variety of resource materials to assist each child's growth in reading, writing, and mathematics. Technology serves as a tool for such activities as information processing, simulations, and problem solving. Specific units are being developed that integrate language arts and social studies in grades 7-11.  A wide range of electives are available to prepare students for post secondary goals.  Parents should contact the Counseling Center at Cedar River (425-413-5400), Tahoma Junior High (425-413-5600), or Tahoma High School (425-413-6200) for specific course information.