Our Academic Programs
Since our founding in 1996, New Hope School has sought to create a rigorous academic curriculum to challenge our students both spiritually and intellectually.
We use the Core Knowledge Foundation curriculum, which is a challenging comprehensive academic program that allows for flexibility for students to excel or review materials depending on their academic ability.
Our Kindergarten Academic Program
Through small class sizes, students main goal is to learn to read! In our English Language Arts (ELA) classes, students complete listening and speaking exercises to develop their phonetic awareness. Additionally, through poetry and fiction (including Aesop's Fables), sayings and phrases become a part of the lexis for students to learn! Students also begin to develop skills in World and American geography, early exploration and settlement, US presidents, and symbols & figures. At the Kindergarten level, students learn patterns and classification, numbers and number sense, money, computation, measurement, and geometry in Mathematics (KG).
Lastly, Science is a BLAST! We learn about plants and plant growth, animals and their needs, the human body, introduction to magnetism, seasons and weather, taking care of the Earth, and science biographies.
Our First and Second Grade Academic Program
Our Academic Program is devised to include 1st and 2nd Grade Learners, and 3rd and 4th Grade Learns to progress at their own pace. In our small class sizes, students can excel is they have show the academic progress to move faster than the curriculum.
1ST GRADE (ELA)- As seasoned readers, we begin to read fiction and non-fiction works, narrative and informative writing, language conventions, poetry, sayings, and phrases
2ND GRADE (ELA) - Fiction becomes an important time for 2nd Graders as we develop mythology of Ancient Greece and stories that reflect differing writing styles and times. We begin narrative, informative, and persuasive writing, language conventions, and poetry.
HISTORY & GEOGRAPHY
In First and Second Grade, students begin to develop a concept of world history (including ancient civilizations), American history including the US constitution, westward expansion, the Civil War, immigration and citizenship, fighting for a cause, geography of the Americas, symbols and figures.
MATHEMATICS & SCIENCE
1ST GRADE MATH - Students learn patterns and classification, numbers and number sense, money, computation including addition and subtraction, measurement, geometry
2ND GRADE MATH - Students learn numbers and number sense, fractions, money, computation including multiplication, measurement, geometry
1ST GRADE SCIENCE - Students learn about living things and their environments, the human body, matter and properties of matter, introduction to electricity, astronomy, the Earth, science biographies
2ND GRADE SCIENCE - Students learn about cycles in nature, insects, the human body, magnetism, simple machines, science biographies
Our Third & Fourth Grade Academic Program
Our Academic Program is devised to include 3rd and 4th Grade Learners to progress at their own pace. In our small class sizes, students can excel is they have show the academic progress to move faster than the curriculum.
3RD / 4TH GRADE LANGUAGE ARTS- Reading and writing including grammar and vocabulary, poetry, fiction including myths and mythical characters, sayings and phrases
3RD GRADE HISTORY & GEOGRAPHY - world history including the Ancient Roman civilization and the Vikings, American history including the earliest Americans, early exploration of North America and the thirteen colonies
4TH GRADE HISTORY & GEOGRAPHY - world geography, history in Europe, the Middle East, Africa, and China, American history including the American Revolution, making a constitutional government, early presidents and politics, reformers, symbols and figures
MATHEMATICS - Numbers and number sense, fractions and decimals, money, computation including division, measurement, geometry
SCIENCE - introduction to classification of animals, the human body, magnetism, light and optics, sound, ecology, astronomy, science biographies
VISUAL ARTS - elements of art, Native American art, art of Ancient Rome and Byzantine civilizations MUSIC: elements of music, listening and understanding, songs
Middle School Curriculum
Our Fifth Grade Curriculum
LANGUAGE ARTS: writing and research, grammar and usage, vocabulary, poetry, fiction including myths and legends, speeches, sayings and phrases HISTORY & GEOGRAPHY: world geography, early American civilizations, European exploration and trade, the Renaissance and the Reformation, England in the Golden Age, Russian early history, feudal Japan, American history including westward expansion, the Civil War, Native Americans, US geography VISUAL ARTS: art of the Renaissance, 19th century American art, art of Japan MUSIC: elements of music, listening and understanding, American musical traditions, songs MATHEMATICS: numbers and number sense, ratio and percent, fractions and decimals, computation including multiplication and division, measurement, geometry, probability and statistics, pre-algebra SCIENCE: classifying living things, cells, plant structures and processes, life cycles and reproduction, the human body, chemistry, science biographies
Our Sixth Grade Curriculum
ENGLISH: writing and research, grammar and usage, spelling, vocabulary, poems and terms, fiction and drama, sayings and phrases HISTORY & GEOGRAPHY: world geography, lasting ideas from ancient civilizations, the Enlightenment, the French Revolution, Romanticism, industrialism, capitalism, and socialism, Latin American independence movements, American history including immigration, industrialization, and urbanization, reform VISUAL ARTS: art history, classical art, Gothic art, art of the Renaissance, Baroque art, Rococo art, neoclassical and romantic art, realism art MUSIC: elements of music, classical music from Baroque to Romantic MATHEMATICS: numbers and number sense, ratio, percent, and proportion, computation including multiplication and division, measurement, geometry, probability and statistics, pre-algebra SCIENCE: plate tectonics, oceans, astronomy, energy, heat, energy transfer, the human body, chemistry, science biographies
Our Seventh Grade Curriculum
ENGLISH: writing and research, grammar and usage, spelling, vocabulary, elements of poetry, fiction, non-fiction, drama, foreign phrases commonly used in English HISTORY & GEOGRAPHY: America becomes a world power, World War I, the Russian Revolution, America from the 1920s to the New Deal, World War II, geography of the US VISUAL ARTS: art history, impressionism, post-impressionism, expressionism and abstraction, modern American painting MUSIC: elements of music, classical music: Romantics and Nationalists, American musical traditions including blues and jazz MATHEMATICS: pre-algebra, geometry including three-dimensional objects, probability and statistics SCIENCE: atomic structure, chemical bonds and reactions, cell division and genetics, history of the Earth and life forms, evolution, science biographies
Our Eight Grade Curriculum
ENGLISH: writing and research, grammar and usage, spelling, vocabulary, elements of poetry, fiction, non-fiction, drama, foreign phrases commonly used in English HISTORY & GEOGRAPHY: the decline of European colonialism, the Cold War, the Civil Rights Movement, the Vietnam War and the rise of social activism, the Middle East and oil politics, the end of the Cold War and the expansion of democracy and its challenges, the US Constitution, geography of Canada and Mexico VISUAL ARTS: art history, painting since World War II, photography, 20th century sculpture, architecture since the Industrial Revolution MUSIC: elements of music, non-western music, classical music including modern music, vocal music MATHEMATICS: algebra including quadratic equations and functions, analytic geometry including introduction to trigonometry, triangles, and proofs SCIENCE: physics, electricity and magnetism, electromagnetic radiation and light, sound waves, chemistry of food and respiration, science biographies