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

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