NEISD provides each student with the 360° Education. Our 360° Education is a well-rounded curriculum that focuses on growing the entire student and fosters critical thinking, problem-solving, creativity, and social development.Language Arts
Your child will start to self-monitor their reading and to self-correct as they gain additional mastery over content read.
Topics and activities include:
- Reading independently in grade-level texts for increasing amounts of time to help develop student interest in reading
- Using letter sounds, picture cues, and the meaning of stories to sound out and grasp unknown words
- Improving writing
Social Studies
Your child will establish a foundation for responsible citizenship in society.
Topics and concepts include:
- Understanding time and chronology by distinguishing past, present and future events
- Patriotic mottoes and anthems of Texas and the United States
- Introduction to mapmaking
- Basic economic concepts including goods, services and the value of work
- Characteristics of good citizenship
Science
Your child will classify objects by their properties, and explore energy and movement. Additionally, your child will begin to identify and explain problems and propose solutions. At least 80% of science instructional time is expected to be used on hands-on activities that include lab and/or field investigations.
Topics and activities include:
- Discussing how different forms of energy are important to everyday life
- Classifying objects by observable properties and predicting changes caused by cooling and heating
- Describing components of soil
- Recording weather information
- Gathering evidence about relationships and interdependence of living things and their environments
Mathematics
Your child will build upon Kindergarten concepts as well as explore problem-solving strategies and are introduced to basic spatial reasoning. Your child will understand relationships within the number system to understand the sequential order of counting numbers.
Concepts and activities also include:
- Identifying accurate, repeatable and efficient strategies to solve simple math problems
- Using basic shapes and spatial reasoning to model objects
- Identifying, naming and describing characteristics of solids and shapes
- Constructing two- and three-dimensional shapes
- Continuing to understand and apply concepts of financial literacy