SEEK - 1st & 2nd Grade Curriculum
2025-26 Offered on Tuesdays, Wednesdays, and Fridays
Note: This course rotates curriculum every year so students can take the course more than once.
The main topics covered this year are:
- Getting to know and appreciate each other
- Plants
- Wildlife
- Animals in Winter
- Reptiles and Amphibians
- Weather and Seasons
- Insects and Pollinators
Week 1: Introduction Activities
Get to know you games, classroom rules, introduction to habitats, Journals
Week 2 & 3: Plants and Pollinators
Study plants, seed dissection, what a plant needs to survive, how seeds travel, what do we eat, and what are specific plant habitats?
Week 4: Wildlife
Identify different species of animals, their adaptations, and habitats.
Week 5: Animals in Winter
Explore how animals survive in winter and how weather seasons affect them.
Week 6: Camouflage
Animals survive by using their senses and the art of camouflage.
Week 7: Reptiles and Amphibians
What are they and what are their life cycles?
Week 8: Weather and Seasons
What is weather? Learn about the sesonal changes and different forms of precipitation.
Week 9 and 10: Insects and Pollinators
Discover the different parts insects, why they are important, what is pollinations, and why are the bees so busy?
Week 11: What did we learn?
Reviewing out year, preparing for graduation, and fun activities
Week 12: Graduation!
Review, games and hiking, graduation ceremony