Elementary Programs at Jump Immersion

Kindergarten Overview

The Jump Immersion program provides individualized attention and core content curriculum in Language Arts (both in the target language as well as English), Math, Science and Social Studies. Students receive differentiated instruction and personal attention in all aspects of learning. Jump is also committed to offering your child a well-rounded program through Technology, Physical Education, Performing Arts, Public Speaking and Music.

Language Arts

Students will learn language arts in their chosen target language, as well as in English. Our language arts program is comprehensive and fosters your child’s growing mind and encourages them to challenge themselves and embrace the world around them. Your child will be able to read, write, converse, understand, and problem solve in two languages.

Kindergarten Focus: We have designed an instructional classroom setting where student-centered activities take place. Your child will hone in on their reading skills, writing and expressive skills, comprehension, and public speaking.

Chef of the Month

The Chef of the Month is a Public Speaking project that offers several benefits to our Kindergarten students. Firstly, it provides them with an excellent opportunity to enhance their public speaking skills and showcase their command of language. Secondly, the program fosters personal traits such as confidence and autonomy by encouraging students to take charge of their cooking and presentation.

During the program, students will follow the steps of a recipe, carefully describing each step while being supported by relevant images. They will also be given the chance to plate their dish, which further enhances their fine motor skills. Finally, the program enables students to experience the joy of serving others within the classroom community by sharing their dish with everyone.

The Chef of the Month is a wonderful way for students to showcase their public skills and learn valuable life skills in a fun and engaging manner.

Here's a video of one our student presentations:

Mathematics

The Singapore Math Methodology answers the call for a coherent sequence of topics while giving students time to master foundational topics. Thus, each grade level covers fewer topics but more intensively. Our program involves whole and small group experiences as well as tailored learning stations that allow for individual expression and independent math challenges.

Kindergarten Focus: Children use concrete objects as they count, sort, pattern, graph, estimate and discover relations through methodology of Singapore Math. The math concepts include numbers, number bonds and operations, geometry, measurements, sequencing, time, spatial awareness, and early problem solving.

Social Studies

Our main focus is the ensure that children are globally aware in terms of language, culture and social responsibility. Children learn to compare and appreciate similarities and differences in their neighborhood and beyond its borders. Family, school, and community are all integrated into our lessons and activities which are taught in an interactive, hands-on, student lead environment.

Kindergarten Focus: Jump provides a monthly focus on cultural awareness and school awareness in the following topics: All About School, We Are Good Friends, We Are Thankful, Holidays Around the World, What Makes Us Unique, We Are a Great Nation, Our Community, Community Professionals, and Our Garden.

Science

Science connects children’s innately curious nature and desire to explore the world around them. Each month, children will be exposed to investigating hands-on activities for their new ideas, observations, inquiry skills and project-based experiments. Children learn to use technology and engineering tools to explore science topics, create books on a study topic, and making observations through drawing and journaling. Children are exposed to various tools for building, measuring and other tasks incorporating new scientific vocabulary in their target language.

Kindergarten Focus: Our thematic units are designed for your child to investigate tools for discovery, develop scientific inquiry skills, expose to different scientific fields such as science lab 101, senses, trees, habitats, hibernation, earth resources, motion, non-living things, matters, and plants.

Arts

Exposure to the arts is an essential part of our student’s life. Through the use of different mediums such as art, music and theater, children begin to increase self-awareness, self-confidence, and self-expression. Students will learn to follow directions, listen, improvise, and express themselves using different art techniques to develop their own creative voice.

By combining our academic curricular goals with goals for independence, self-confidence, and self-sufficiency, we foster the growth of strong character traits in our students.

First Grade Overview

The Jump Immersion program provides individualized attention and core content curriculum in Language Arts (both in the target language as well as English), Math, Science and Social Studies. Students receive differentiated instruction and personal attention in all aspects of learning. Jump is also committed to offering your child a well-rounded program through Technology, Physical Education, Performing Arts, Visual Arts and Music.

Language Arts

Students will learn language arts in their chosen target language, as well as in English. Our language arts program is comprehensive and fosters your child’s growing mind and encourages them to challenge themselves and embrace the world around them. Your child will be able to read, write, converse, understand, and problem solve in two languages.

First Grade Focus: Through culturally responsive experiences using the target language, students are provided with a variety of tasks related to the curriculum. Students will embrace the performance assessment and apply language skills on real world tasks. Tasks that include word study, reading comprehension, expression through writing, retelling a story using wordless pictures, and completing classroom presentations.

Mathematics

The Singapore Math Methodology answers the call for a coherent sequence of topics while giving students time to master foundational topics. Thus, each grade level covers fewer topics but more intensively. Our program involves whole and small group experiences as well as tailored learning stations that allow for individual expression and independent math challenges.

First Grade Focus: Students use concrete and pictorial models when working with numbers such as grouping objects in tens and ones, representing numbers to 100 on a number line and place-value models, using symbolic models for addition and subtraction. The children can compose and decompose two to three dimensional shapes, using different tools and units of measurement, solving varied math problems with appropriate problem methods, and developing logical reasoning strategies.

Social Studies

Our focus is the ensure that children are globally aware in terms of language, culture, and social responsibility. Children learn to compare and appreciate similarities and differences in their neighborhood and beyond its borders. Family, school, and community are all integrated into our lessons and activities which are taught in an interactive, hands-on, student lead environment.

First Grade Focus: Through a contextualized classroom setting, students are exposed to cultures and connect with the global environment, including important people, events in the United States, and the world. Students use geographical tools, maps, and globes to identify locations and regions, study historical figures and events, celebrate historical accomplishments, and develop awareness of being a global citizen and leadership skills.

Science

Science connects children’s innately curious nature and desire to explore the world around them. Each month, children will be exposed to investigating hands-on activities for their new ideas, observations, inquiry skills and project-based experiments. Children learn to use technology and engineering tools to explore science topics, create books on a study topic, and making observations through drawing and journaling. Children are exposed to various tools for building, measuring and other tasks incorporating new scientific vocabulary in their target language.

First Grade Focus: Students conduct experiments with magnifying glasses, microscopes, graphing information, documenting hypothesis and results, and keeping scientific journals. Children ask progressive questions, apply deductive and inductive reasoning, and use technology for research. We provide technology tools for your child’s hand-on learning experience to early typing.

Arts

Exposure to the arts is an essential part of our student’s life. Using different mediums such as art, music and theater, children begin to increase self-awareness, self-confidence, and self-expression. Students will learn to follow directions, listen, improvise, and express themselves using different art techniques to develop their own creative voice.

2nd Grade Overview

The Jump Immersion program provides individualized attention and core content curriculum in Language Arts (both in the target language as well as English), Math, Science and Social Studies. Students receive differentiated instruction and personal attention in all aspects of learning. Jump is also committed to offering your child a well-rounded program through Technology, Physical Education, Performing Arts, Visual Arts and Music.

Language Arts

Students will learn language arts in their chosen target language, as well as in English. Our language arts program is comprehensive and fosters your child’s growing mind and encourages them to challenge themselves and embrace the world around them. Your child will be able to read, write, converse, understand, and problem solve in two languages.

Second Grade Focus: Students will communicate and exchange information about familiar topics and participate in conversations in full sentences. In presentational writing, students develop the skills to write on a variety of familiar topics using connected sentences. In terms of interpretive listening, students will be able to understand the main idea in messages and presentations on a variety of topics related to everyday life, personal interests, and their academic studies.

Mathematics

The Singapore Math Methodology answers the call for a coherent sequence of topics while giving students time to master foundational topics. Thus, each grade level covers fewer topics but more intensively. Our program involves whole and small group experiences as well as tailored learning stations that allow for individual expression and independent math challenges.

Second Grade Focus: Our math for second graders will advance your child to handle more complex math challenges. Second graders will learn math concepts and skill development through hands-on instruction and practice. Students will use mental math strategies to add and subtract, understand that addition and subtraction are inverse operations, demonstrate partitioning and transitivity in relations to length, use bar models to represent multiplication and division situations, and further investigate mathematical ideas by completing critical thinking skills activities.

Social Studies

Our main focus is the ensure that children are globally aware in terms of language, culture and social responsibility. Children learn to compare and appreciate similarities and differences in their neighborhood and beyond its borders. Family, school, and community are all integrated into our lessons and activities which are taught in an interactive, hands-on, student lead environment.

Second Grade Focus: Students at this grade level will use simple maps, compasses during a class walk and create own playground topographical maps, read about key global figures and write about their accomplishments, recognize inequality and injustice and how to take action, explore cultural food, traditional songs, customs and dances with additional parent participation opportunities for storytelling and presentation.

Science

Science connects children’s innately curious nature and desire to explore the world around them. Each month, children will be exposed to investigating hands-on activities for their new ideas, observations, inquiry skills and project-based experiments. Children learn to use technology and engineering tools to explore science topics, create books on a study topic, and making observations through drawing and journaling. Children are exposed to various tools for building, measuring and other tasks incorporating new scientific vocabulary in their target language.

Second Grade Focus: Our second graders are immersed in guided instructions through the top down logic approach by starting off with a general statement, probing, open-ended questions during experiment, encouraging students to ask scientific questions, walk through scientific method, using technology to do charts and graphs, building typing dexterity in engaging activities and showing that technology doesn’t have to be computers or phones but can be as simple as a flashlight.

Language Arts (Both Languages)

Students will communicate and exchange information about real life topics and participate in investigation and collaborative projects. Students follow the writing process to express themselves through persuasive, informational and narrative texts.

Singapore Math (Both Languages)

Our math for third graders will advance your child to handle more complex math problems and challenges. Students will use mental math strategies to master the four operations while advancing skills, area and perimeter, angles and more!

Social Studies (English)

Our students will connect the past and present to learn how events through history influence current events. Topics such as Mapping Our World, U.S. Geography, Protecting Resources, Amazing Inventions use globally minded content to bring students closer to being participatory citizens in the world around them

Science (Target Language)

Students will develop deep understanding of science concepts, procedural skills and fluency, and critical thinking that endure well beyond the next test. Our Science Performance tasks enable students to construct their own solution to a problem, often by applying the principles of the engineering design process.

Arts

Offers an incredibly diverse and multicultural art curriculum built on top of a well-researched historical foundation. Each of our 5 Tracks include 7 artists that students will explore throughout the year. Students will learn to follow directions, listen, improvise, and express themselves using different art techniques to develop their own creative voice.

MUSIC

Our students will experience the joy of music through singing, dancing, games, playing instruments and creating their own music. Students will learn about rhythm, melody (learning to play the recorder), culture and music creation (composing, improvising, songwriting, musical storytelling)

Music

Our students will experience the joy of music through singing, dancing, games, playing instruments and creating their own music. Students will learn about rhythm, melody (learning to play the recorder), culture and music creation (composing, improvising, songwriting, musical storytelling)

Workshops

During their CWPS program, our students will expand their historical knowledge and appreciation for people’s legacy. They research historical material such as biographies, informational texts, interviews, and more about historical figures. They collaborate with their peers to compare and contrast information and to prepare for their final presentation where they engage an audience on a "guess who I am" format.

Coding

Interactive online programs geared to identify code as a language, this year students will learn how to review what learned before, go further in algorithms, nested loops, conditionals and more!

Physical Education

Our program will develop Team Building skills through team games and sports where students listen and communicate carefully, strategize with classmates, build a sense of trust in one another. Students will also deepen their understanding of Healthy habits and their practice of sports and fitness exercises.

Fourth Grade Overview

The Fourth-Grade year is one of significant growth as students are industrious and intellectually curious, and a good deal of their academic time is spent giving attention to both the process and the product of their schoolwork. The development of organizational and study skills is emphasized to support our students taking more responsibility for themselves academically and socially. Fourth Grade classroom instruction begins to see more discrete separation in individual subject areas within the disciplines of Language Arts, Mathematics, Social Studies, and Science.

Language Arts

In Fourth Grade, emphasis is placed on reading to learn. Students explore a range of genres and respond to literature through discussion and a variety of written formats. In addition, students expand their vocabulary and develop analytic skills as they learn how to navigate complex non-fiction texts.

Mathematics

Singapore Approach is the formal curriculum used for mathematics instruction in the elementary School. Topics such as complex problem-solving, data and probability, continued study of the relationship between whole numbers and fractions, in-depth geometric concepts, and a study of number theory are introduced.

Science

The Fourth-Grade science curriculum is designed to develop students’ awareness of the important role science plays in their lives and the world. Topics such as the interrelationship between plants and animals and weather in the state of New Jersey demonstrate the importance of environmental sustainability.

Physical Education

Our program will develop Team Building skills through team games and sports where students listen and communicate carefully, strategize with classmates, build a sense of trust in one another. Students will also deepen their understanding of Healthy habits and their practice of sports and fitness exercises.

What is Power Hour?

Power hour provides a space for students to draw upon their whole linguistic repertoires for meaningful and creative language practice and literacy development. During this hour, students are immersed in reading and writing workshops that are designed under innovative bilingual teaching and learning frameworks.

Through interacting with different genres of reading and finding their own voices through writing, students gain biliteracy knowledge and communication skills that are necessary for growing into global leaders.

Why Cultural Appreciation and Diversity makes our school stronger

At Jump, we strongly believe in accessible education for all students. Children learn from one another with different socioeconomic backgrounds, culture, and patterns of thinking. It sparks cultural curiosity, strengthens their empathy, and broadens their perspective from a young age. That’s why we champion a supportive environment that embraces all diversity with open dialogue.

WATCH - Ms. Caroline explains how this shows up in our school: