HISTORY AND LITERATURE
Local Native American studies and Colorado history, Norse myths and sagas, local geography and history, poetry.
Grammar, essays, descriptive writing and book reports, daily recitation, reading of historical fiction and myth, plays.
Factors and multiples, four processes and fractions, proper and improper fraction, mental math.
GEOGRAPHY AND SCIENCE
Local and Colorado geography, Ute Indian study, map making, animal kingdom in relationship to humans.
Drawing Celtic knots, braiding forms, animal studies in clay, map making, wet-on-wet watercolor painting.
Using embroidery and sewing needles, cross-stitching, mirrored patterns
Circus arts, cooperative games, orienteering.
Recorder, stringed instrument, sign reading, songs from main lesson themes, songs in minor key.
Introduction to written work, basic grammar, main lesson themes, including the importance of Spanish roots in local history, vocabulary.
Human and natural history of the school site; harvesting, threshing, winnowing and grinding grains.
Food vocabulary and food from Colorado native people, grinding grains and baking, seasonality of food. Planning balanced meals.