Lower School

Our faculty and students are moving forward to the 21ST CENTURY NEEDED SKILLS ‘Teamwork, Innovation, Problem Solving, Flexibility, Global Knowledge, Perseverance & Resilience, Communication, Critical Intellectual, Civic Involvement, Leadership, and AI Ability.’

SIS’s international curriculum G1-6 adapts four subjects: English Language Arts, Mathematics, Science and Social Studies from American Education Reaches Out (AERO) and the US Common Core State Standards (CCSS), issued by the United States Department of Education. Mandarin (Chinese) is an extra subject taught here throughout this school level from which to ensure students well equipped for next school level. Check our curriculum highlights.

They are teamworking on a DIY bridge to foster their problem-solving skills.

SmartKids Lower School Class

Grade 1

English Language Arts

From RL.1 to L.6: Without prompting and support, students learn to ask and answer questions about key details in a text. Students further learn to use words and phrases acquired through conversations, reading, and being read to, and responding to texts, including using frequently occurring conjunctions to signal simple relationships (e.g., because). Students reinforce their reading and writing abilities through Jolly Phonics.

Mathematics

From AERO.1NBT.1 to AERO.1. G.3: Students learn to count to 120, starting at any number less than 120. In this range, read and write numerals and represent several objects with a written numeral. Students also learn about partition circles and rectangles into two and four equal shares, describe the shares using the words halves, fourths, and quarters, and use the phrases half of, fourth of, and quarter of. Students learn to describe the whole as two of, or four of the shares. Students understand for these examples that decomposing into more equal shares creates smaller shares.

Science

From 1-PS4-1 to 1-ESS1-2: Students learn about plan and investigate to provide evidence that vibrating materials can make sound and that sound can make materials vibrate. Moreover, students observe the sun, moon, and stars to describe patterns that can be predicted. They also learn to observe different times of year to relate the amount of daylight to the time of the year.

Social Studies

From AERO standard1 to AERO standard8: Students learn to differentiate between people, places, and events in the past, present and future. They learn about conflict, cooperation, factors that contribute to cooperation and ways of dealing with disagreements. Students learn about roles resources play in our daily lives, to describe how we depend upon people with specialized jobs, distinguish between goods and services, describe examples in which tools and techniques have changed the lives of people.

SIS Grade 1

SIS Grade 1

SIS Grade 1

SIS Grade 1

SIS Grade 1

Grade 2

English Language Arts

From RL.1 to L.6: Without prompting and support, students learn to ask and answer questions as who, what, where, when, why and how to demonstrate understanding of key details in text. Students further learn to use words and phrases acquired through conversations, reading, and being read to, and responding to texts, including using adjectives and adverbs to describe (e.g., When other kids are happy that makes me happy). Students reinforce their reading and writing abilities through Jolly Phonics.

Mathematics

From AERO.1NBT.2 to AERO.2. G.3: Students learn to count within 1000; skip-count by 5s, 10s, and 100s. Students also learn about partition circles and rectangles into two, three, or four equal shares, describe the shares using words halves, thirds, half of, a third of, etc., and describe the whole as two halves, three thirds, four fourths. Students recognize that equal shares of identical wholes need not have the same shape.

Science

From 2-PS1-1 to 2-ESS2-3: Students learn about plan and investigate to describe and classify different kinds of materials by their observable properties. Students develop a model to represent the shapes and kinds of land and bodies of water in an area. They further obtain information to identify where water is found on Earth and that it can be solid or liquid.

Social Studies

From AERO standard1 to AERO standard8: Students learn to relate stories about past events, people, places, or situations to help our understanding of the past and present. They explain why people make choices about how to satisfy wants and needs. They identify institutions that are part of economic systems, describe how goods and services can be exchanged, and identify reasons and requirements for making tools and developing techniques.

SIS Grade 2

SIS Grade 2

SIS Grade 2

SIS Grade 2

SIS Grade 2

Grade 3

English Language Arts

From RL.1 to L.6: Students learn to ask and answer questions to demonstrate understanding of text, referring explicitly to the text as the basis for the answers. Students further acquire and use accurately grade-appropriate conversational, general academic, and domain specific words and phrases, including those that signal spatial and temporal relationships (e.g., after dinner that night we went looking for them.)

Mathematics

From AERO.3NBT.1 to AERO.3. G.2: Students learn to use place value understanding to round whole numbers to the nearest 10 or 100. Students also learn about partition shapes into parts with equal areas. Express the area of each part as a unit fraction of the whole. For example, partition a shape into 4 parts with equal area, and describe the area of each part as ¼ of the area of the shape.

Science

From 3-PS3-1 to 3-ESS3-1: Students learn to plan and investigate to provide evidence of the effect of balanced and unbalanced forces on the motion of an object. Besides, students learn to obtain and combine information to describe climates in different regions of the world. They further make a claim about the merits of a design solution that reduces the impacts of a weather-related hazard.

Social Studies

From AERO standard 1 to AERO standard 8: Students learn why people in different times and places view the world differently, describe changes in society, identify cause and effect relationships in history, identify and use primary and secondary sources to examine the past and present. They further learn to examine ways in which tools and techniques make certain tasks easier, describe ways that tools and techniques can both positive and negative effects, describe instances in which changes in values, beliefs, and attitudes have resulted from new scientific knowledge and from technological knowledge.

SIS Grade 3

SIS Grade 3

SIS Grade 3

SIS Grade 3

SIS Grade 3

Grade 4

English Language Arts

From RL.1 to L.6: Students refer to details and examples in a text when explaining what the text says explicitly and when drawing inferences from the text. Students further acquire and use accurately grade-appropriate conversational, general academic, and domain specific words and phrases, including those that signal precise actions, emotions, or states of being (e.g., quizzed, whined, stammered) and that are basic to a particular topic (e.g., wildlife, conversation, and endangered when discussing animal preservation).

Mathematics

From AERO.4NBT.3 to AERO.4. G.3: Students learn to use place value in understanding to round multi-digit whole numbers to any place. Students also learn about partition shapes into parts with equal areas. Express the area of each part as a unit fraction of the whole. For example, partition a shape into 4 parts with equal areas, and describe the area of each part as ¼ of the area of the shape. Students further learn to recognize a line of symmetry for a two-dimensional figure as a line across the figure such that the figure can be folded along the line into matching parts. Identify line-symmetric figures and draw lines of symmetry.

Science

From 4-PS3-1 to 4-ESS3-2: Students learn to use evidence to construct an explanation relating the speed of an object to the energy of that object. Students obtain and combine information to describe that energy and fuels are derived from natural resources and their uses affect the environment. Students further learn to generate and compare multiple solutions to reduce the impacts of natural Earth processes on humans.

Social Studies

From AERO standard 1 to AERO standard 8: Students learn the major ways groups, societies, and nations interact with one another. They learn to use elements of maps, apply appropriate resources and geographic tools to generate and interpret information about the earth. They describe characteristics, locations, uses, and management of renewable and non-renewable resources. They further learn to explain and compare ways in which people satisfy their basic needs and wants through the production of goods and services.

SIS Grade 4

SIS Grade 4

SIS Grade 4

SIS Grade 4

SIS Grade 4

Grade 5&6

English Language Arts

From RL.1 to L.6: Students quote accurately from a text when explaining what the text says explicitly and when drawing inferences from the text. Students further acquire and use accurately grade-appropriate conversational, general academic, and domain specific words and phrases, including those that signal contrast, addition, and other logical relationships (e.g., however, although, nevertheless, similarly, moreover, in addition).

Mathematics

From AERO.5 NBT.4 to AERO.5. G.4: Students learn to use place value understanding to round decimals to any place. Students further learn to represent real world and mathematical problems by graphing points in the first quadrant of the coordinate planes and interpret coordinate values of points in the context of the situation. Students learn to classify two-dimensional figures in a hierarchy based on properties.

Science

From 5-PS1-1 to 5-ESS3-1: Students develop models to describe the atomic composition of simple molecules and extended structures. They analyze and interpret data on the properties of substances before and after the substances interact to determine if chemical reaction has occurred. Students further obtain and combine information about ways individual communities use science ideas to protect the Earth’s resources and environment.

Social Studies

From AERO standard 1 to AERO standard 8: Students learn to explain varied causes and effects of conflicts and cooperation among individuals, groups, societies, and nations in the following categories: politics, economics, geography, ethnicity/race/gender, and culture. They learn how to distinguish among human, natural, and capital resources. They describe how changes in transportation and communication have affected trade and economic activities. They further learn how trade affects the way people earn their living in regions of the world and learn to describe primary causes of world trade.

SIS Grade 5

SIS Grade 5

SIS Grade 5

SIS Grade 5

SIS Grade 5

Approaches

Teamwork-Based

Students are encouraged to build a self-directed learning environment among their team so that they gradually acquire the 21ST CENTURY NEEDED SKILLS ‘Teamwork, Innovation, Problem Solving, Flexibility, Global Knowledge, Perseverance & Resilience, Communication, Critical Intellectual, Civic Involvement, Leadership, and AI Ability.’

Steam Corners

Different types of plays at self-directed learning environments such as centers for Mathematics, Books, Writing, Art, Music, Science, and Dramatic Plays are student-centered here to allow them to explore and acquire knowledge about science and social science, technology (smart toys such as Music Blocks, LeapPad, Pixter, Question-Air and GeoSaferi Talking Microscope), engineering or entrepreneurship, art or architecture, and mathematics.

REFRESH TIME

Physical Education and Arts Education are here to serve students to recharge and refocus.

Confidence Boosting

Pair-work, small group work, tiny research projects and presentation, spelling bees, discussion and debate, SmartKids-TV club, SmartKids-Newspaper Club, SmartKids-Art Club, SmartKids-Community Helpers Club, and KidTeen-trenpreneur Club are all being promoted here.

Fees & Admission

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