CULTURAL PERSPECTIVE:
The United States is a diverse mix of groups who brought their own cultures, differences, and values to build this nation. This mix of differences makes our nation strong. It is important to celebrate contributions, heighten awareness, and become more knowledgeable about the different cultures and ethnic backgrounds that make our country what it is today. Cultural awareness begins by understanding what culture is. Culture is the values, beliefs, assumptions and ideas that a people and / or a society hold in common. Cultural awareness is knowledge and essential to getting along and promoting racial harmony.
Pasadena Rosebud Academy will partner with private schools in an effort to bridge cultural gaps. Our students will meet other students who celebrate a cultural different from their own. Students will correspond, meet, and interact regularly and throughout their academic career at Pasadena Rosebud Academy. As students learn about cultural differences, they will celebrate what they share in common and embrace life together, united as a human race. Through our Cultural Perspective Program students will gain tolerance, self respect, and respect for others.
FINANCIAL LITERACY
One of the missing links to education is financial literacy. Teaching children about money and providing them with a solid financial education early in life is critical to their future. Through our financial literacy program, students will gain insight into the basic survival principles involved with earning, spending, saving and investing. The early financial literacy educational experience will instill basic personal financial management skills in students and establish good financial habits. Pasadena Rosebud Academy will partner with Pasadena Services Federal Credit Union to provide early financial literacy to students. Students will open a savings account and watch their money grow. Through our financial literacy program students will:
- Learn the difference between wants and needs
- Build their money skills
- Invest in their future
- Teach children the responsibilities of money and sound personal finance
- Teach responsibility, self-reliance, how not to be covetous of things or toys, and how to use savings to reach personal financial success early in life.
- Learn how to calculate interest rates
- Learn about investing
- Learn the importance and benefit of financial independence
POLITICAL STRUCTURES
Students will learn about political structures within the United States and internationally. Each class/grade level will create a mock political structure that is consistent with what is being taught in social studies. Example: Fourth grade students will create a California political structure. Students will elect a governor and other statewide officials. Other students will represent Senators and Assembly Members. They will learn how all the state officials fit into the California Judicial Branch. In the fifth grade students will expand their political knowledge to the US Government.
Students will keep abreast of the political figures that represent them both locally and nationally. They will learn of some of the current political figures that represent other countries as well. Awareness of the current political affairs that impact student’s lives daily will provide them with the knowledge and motivation to exercise their rights when they turn eighteen.
PREPARATORY SUMMER
At Rosebud Academy we understand the importance of continuity in education. Students at Rosebud Academy will participate in a year-round academic program that allows them to bridge their learning from year to year. Each summer students will be provided with a parent guided and implemented curriculum that will reinforce what they’ve learned during the school year and prepare them for the upcoming year. Students will be given extended curricular lessons in all core subject areas that will strengthen their academic development. They will be assigned literature that coincides with the upcoming year’s social studies theme. Through their literature they will gain background knowledge on their social studies curriculum that will provide them with the confidence and motivation to be successful. They will maintain a reading log that monitors their daily reading (20-30 minutes Monday-Friday)