Welcome to Evergreen Academy
Grade One
Curriculum
21st Century Skills
- Communication: Sharing thoughts, questions, ideas and solutions.
- Collaboration: Working together to reach a goal.
- Critical Thinking: Looking at problems in a new way and linking learning across the disciplines.
- Creativity: Trying new approaches to get things done.
Content Area Specialists
We offer many specialists
Art
Music
PE
Library
Technology
Language (Spanish and French)
All Specialists send out monthly newsletters
- Connecting specialists to in class content areas
SOAR
Student Opportunity for Advanced Rigor
Identify students achieving above grade level in math and reading
Adjust pacing to differentiate curriculum and instruction
Project based learning to extend concepts and add academic rigor
Personalized Learning Plans (PLP)
Each child has a data driven Personal Learning Plan that is created in cooperation with the parent, student (when applicable) and includes individual goals and objectives in the areas of academics, life and career skills and 21st century skills.
Teachers are trained to use ongoing formative data to plan and teach to meet the learning needs of each child.
- PLPs are sent out mid-trimester.
Integration of Technology
Brochures
Diagnostic Assessments
Geography
QR Codes
Arduinos
Hour of Code
Individualized Lessons
S.T.E.M.
STEM is a curriculum based on the idea of educating students in four specific disciplines — science, technology, engineering and mathematics — in an interdisciplinary and applied approach.
Hand Pollinators
Insects pollinate many kinds of plants. What if the right insects aren’t around to do the work? The storybook Mariana Becomes a Butterfly shows how one girl solves a pollination problem. In this unit, students become agricultural engineers. They’ll apply their knowledge of insects, insect life cycles, pollination, and natural systems as they test a variety of materials, then engineer their own technologies for pollinating plants by hand.
Garden to Market
Certified Pollinator Habitat
Partner with local farm to sell honey and beeswax candles at farmer’s market.
- Connects to our FOSS New Plants Unit and our STEM Pollinators Unit.
Field Trips in First Grade
Farm At Swan Trail
Smart with Art
Toymaker
Soundbridge at The Seattle Symphony
Camp Long
Oxbow Farms
Service Learning
Parent Communication
Weekly newsletters are sent home every Friday via email.
We respond to emails same school day.
Formal conferences twice a year
Informal conferences as needed
Classroom websites