Lawton Elementary

Lawton
Elementary
Lawton Elementary School

Academics

Academics at Lawton

Math

We use the district’s enVision curriculum, which is a Common Core aligned program that offers rigorous grade level instruction, and allows teachers to differentiate content for all students, including those approaching grade level standard and those who have math skills above grade level. Students also have access to digital math platforms and materials to augment the daily instruction with individualized skills practice.

English Language Arts (ELA)

We follow the district’s adopted, comprehensive Center for the Collaborative Classroom (CCC) English Language Arts curriculum. This curriculum integrates reading and writing as complementary processes and includes individualized daily reading. The daily instruction consists of the following skills development:

  1. Being A Reader (K-2) teaches foundational skills such as phonological awareness, decoding and comprehension and at the same time works to foster a love of reading. It includes whole-class and small-group instruction, independent work rotations and authentic reading experiences.
  2. Being A Writer (K-5) teaches the writing process while developing intrinsic motivation for the craft of writing via read-alouds, independent practice and student-teacher conferencing, and instruction in language skills and conventions. Students are immersed in a variety of genres, including narrative, informational, and opinion/persuasive writing. 
  3. Making Meaning (K-5) delivers whole-class reading and vocabulary instruction through read-aloud experiences, guided and independent strategy practice, and student-teaching conferencing to scaffold word-learning and fluency in reading. 

Multi-Language Learners

Lawton’s English Learners benefit from co-teaching between our MLL staff and general education teachers who collaborate for the purpose of targeted in-class language development in reading, writing, speaking, and listening. 

More information available on the SPS Multilingual page.

Science

We use the Amplify Science curriculum that is aligned to the new Next Generation Science Standards(NGSS). The new standards ask students to be able to engage in science and engineering practices like design, building, and observation. It asks them to understand crosscutting concepts like cause and effect and energy and matter and how they work across all the domains in science.

It also asks students to understand key concepts in the core domains; physical sciences, life sciences, earth and space sciences and engineering, technology and applications of science.

Physical Education

Our program focuses on lifetime fitness and health through movement. The goal is to expose our students to the many different activities that can help maintain a healthy lifestyle.

Music

Lawton has a full-time music teacher whose instruction includes choral work, rhythm and beat, reading music, performance, and instrumental work—seeking to develop a love for an understanding of music in all forms.

Social Studies

Lawton Social Studies curriculum is based on the OSPI learning standards that are required based on grade level. Standards are broken out into Social Studies, Civics, Economics, Geography, and History.

Since Time Immemorial (STI) Adoption : At the present time, the district is adopting OSPI’s STI curriculum. This adoption will provide all Seattle Public Schools students with an education on the background and current affairs of the 29 sovereign nations within the boundaries of Washington state. While there is not yet a formal adoption at the elementary level, there are available units and some teachers are beginning to use these lessons as we await next steps.

Social Emotional Learning

Lawton uses the district-supported Second Step curriculum for instruction in emotional regulation and social skills. We also use the RULER curriculum (Recognizing, Understanding, Labeling, Expressing, and Regulating) to support the social-emotional learning of our students.