Curriculum
Curriculum Meetings
We host Curriculum Night every September. Your child’s teacher(s) will detail the plans and a schedule for the year as well as the procedures for many important class routines. The meeting provides an overview of the grade’s curriculum and activities and address your questions. You will also be able to hear from your child’s specialty teachers and service providers (for students with IEPs).
mathematics
All of our grades use the Eureka Math Squared curriculum. Eureka Math Squared is meticulously coherent, with an intense focus on key concepts that layer over time, creating enduring knowledge. Students gain a complete body of math knowledge, not just a discrete set of skills. They use the same models and problem-solving methods from grade to grade, so math concepts stay with them, year after year. The curriculum is designed to help students think like mathematicians and to solve problems in a variety of situations.
Science
Students from grades 2 through 5 enjoy science once a week in our Science lab using the Amplify Science curriculum. Students in Kindergarten and 1st grade learn science concepts with their classroom teacher using teacher-created curriculum which has been developed around the Next Generation Science Standards. The PS 107 Sunshine Garden complements aspects of the science curriculum. Each grade enjoys hands-on science field trips that enhance classroom studies.
The Arts
We have a full-time visual arts and a full-time music teacher. We also have arts residencies for each grade sponsored by the PTA. The Arts Committee also helps teachers arrange class visits to museums, dramatic performances and other cultural institutions throughout the year to enrich classroom studies. The Art Committee organizes Art Day, a Saturday of free art-making workshops and performances for the PS 107 community held every year.
Physical Education
Our physical education teacher emphasizes participation in a wide variety of enjoyable physical activities (traditional sports, non-traditional sports, and fitness activities), making opportunities to remain active for lifelong health and wellness. The NYC Fitnessgram is used to assess students in a series of exercises that measure components of health-related fitness, including body composition, muscular strength, flexibility, muscular endurance, and aerobic capacity. Students also participate in the NY Road Runners program in which students log the miles they run or walk during gym with a goal of up to 4 marathons by year-end.
Students in grades 1-5 will participate in two gym classes per week at the Park Slope Armory. Kindergarten students will have two gym classes in the big yard each week, or in their classrooms in the event of inclement weather.
PHONICS
PS 107 uses Recipe for Reading, a research-based, comprehensive, multisensory, phonics-based reading and writing program in Kindergarten through grade 4. Each class has a daily phonics block where they learn, explicitly, how the English language works, for reading and for writing. In grade 5, students are placed in differentiated word study groups based on assessment results.
READING + WRITING
Our core reading and writing curriculum for students in grades K-4 is Wit + Wisdom, a knowledge building curriculum that teaches reading comprehension skills, as well as the skills needed to write in a variety of genres. In the 2023-24 school year, students in 5th grade will be using a rigorous reading and writing curriculum that has been built and refined over many years by our 5th grade teaching team. In the 2024-25 school year, 5th grade will also transition to Wit + Wisdom.
Social Studies
Children learn about people and cultures close to home and around the world, past and present. PS 107 builds their own inquiry-based social studies curriculum that is grounded in the New York City Department of Education’s Passport to Social Studies curriculum. Field trips to local institutions are an integral part of our social studies curriculum.
